Benjamin Britten

The Athens Singers choral ensemble will be performing a concert of 20th century English church music, including works by Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Charles Wood, under musical director Roger Tilley at St Paul's Anglican Church in Athens on Friday, October 18. The ensemble will be accompanied by Steven Atherton on the organ and tenor Stamatis Pakakis.

Continuing its Sacred Music cycle in the runup to Easter, the Greek National Opera presents "Miracles from the Bible," a program comprising Benjamin Britten's "Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac," Arvo Part's "Sarah Was Ninety Years Old" and Michalis Adamis' "Yini Perivevlimeni ton Ilion I" (A Woman Clothed with the Sun).

The Underground Youth Orchestra - a local act founded in 2010 by people meeting in a basement to play music which today comprises 45 music students and four professionals - presents "Almost New Year's," a celebratory concert at the Benaki Museum's Pireos Street annex.

Cellist Constantinos Sfetsas and pianist Nelly Semitecolo perform chamber music by Russian postmodernist Alfred Schnittke - his melancholic First Sonata (1978) and Musica Nostalgica - and bridge a mature work by Sergei Prokofiev and a solo suite by Benjamin Britten in a recital aimed at highlighting the significant affinities between great 20th-century composers.

Star soloists and concert-goers alike hail the atmosphere at the BBC Promenade Concerts, with their quirks, traditions and sense of occasion The London-based Proms are celebrating their 120th year this summer, and the world?s biggest classical music festival continues to draw in crowds by mixing top performers with accessible ticket prices.