Music from the Movies by Candlelight
The Belmont Ensemble performs a selection of music from film and TV, featuring tunes from Pirates of the Caribbean, James Bond, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones and Schindler’s List. Please note this performance will last for approximately 60 minutes without an interval.
Mozart and Moonlight by Candlelight
Join British-Azerbaijani pianist Gunel Mirzayeva for a beautiful hour-long programme of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven. Please note this performance will last for approximately 60 minutes without an interval.
Bach: St John Passion by Candlelight
Academy of St Martin in the Fields and St Martin’s Voices join forces to perform Bach’s sacred masterpiece. The St John Passion is an iconic musical retelling of the Easter story, featuring Bach’s vocal and instrumental writing at its most dramatic and…
English Baroque Soloists – Mozart Double Piano Concertos
Mozart was at his most effervescent in his works for multiple pianos – products of an exuberant youth, and designed to be played alongside his pupils (amongst whom were the daughters of the Countess Antonia Lodron). Expect joyful performances in the hands…
Tenebrae: Tallis Lamentations for Holy Week
Nigel Short’s virtuoso chamber choir Tenebrae takes “passion and precision” as its motto, and both qualities will be in play in this beautifully-conceived sequence of Easter music from across cultures and centuries. Tonight, as part of the St Martin’s Easter Festival, they…
The Gesualdo Six: Lux Aeterna
Holy Week is a poignant moment in the year, and grief touches all of us at some point during our lives, affecting each person differently. This beautiful programme explores mourning and loss, uncertainty and hope. Byrd and Bingham beautifully capture a sense…
SANSARA: Arvo Pärt at Passiontide
Global audiences have loved every note of Pärt’s profoundly communicative music; SANSARA choir’s Passiontide concert marks his 90th birthday year with a sequence of his best-loved masterpieces, including Fratres and the heart-rending Stabat Mater. They visit Tudor England too: ‘Not even the…
Ex Cathedra: Latin American Baroque – Ritual, 1631
Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra have pioneered the rediscovery of the vibrant sounds of South American Baroque music – a fusion of music from Europe, Africa and South America. The iconic Inca liturgy ‘Hanac pachap cussicuinin’ – the oldest printed polyphony in…
The English Concert: Bach Mass in B minor
In all of choral music, there’s no summit mightier than Johann Sebastian Bach’s tremendous B Minor Mass. But few masterpieces reward the effort more gloriously, and few ensembles are better-equipped to approach it than the pioneering early music ensemble The English Concert….
