The Independent Recommends: Classical Music

THE A CAPELLA sextet, The King's Singers, incredibly notch up their 30th anniversary this year, yet continue to sing out loud with a range of vibrant, up-to-the-minute repertoire, as they team up with virtuoso percusssionist Evelyn Glennie (right). Steve Martland, Michael Gordon, David Horne and even Paul Simon are among the eclectic line-up of composers represented.

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (0161-907 9000) 7.30pm

Handel fever mounts: the Italian opera seria Rodelinda at Glyndebourne and now, a later, under-aired, English oratorio about another formidable lady - the Old Testament Athalia - in the annual Handel oratorio performance from the prestigious Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Staunch Handelian Ivor Bolton conducts his own St James's Baroque Players, the choir of Clare College Cambridge and an impressive quintet of vocal soloists including Lynne Dawson in the title role.

St James's Church, Piccadilly, London W1 (0171-222 1061) 7pm.