Apollo’s Fire: Blues Café 1610

Apollo’s Fire invites you back to 1610 for a musical tour of pubs and taverns. The sounds of violin, hammered dulcimer, plucked instruments, and ney (Middle Eastern flute) evoke haunting ballads and lively dances from around the world. A Scottish lament meets…

Programme Uccellini (arr. Sorrell) – La Bergamasca Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531 Vivaldi (arr. Sorrell) – Concerto Grosso, ‘La Folia’ (“Madness”) Performers Apollo’s Fire – The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra Jeannette Sorrell…

Programme Osvaldo Golijov – Yiddishbbuk Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Steve Reich – Different Trains With readings from children’s poems from Terezin and the writings of the composers. Performers Carducci Quartet Anton Lesser Narrator As a boy,…

Please note, this concert will last for approximately 90 minutes without an interval. Programme Tomás Luis de Victoria – Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday & Holy Saturday Interspersed with J. S. Bach’s music for solo violin Around the music will be woven poetry,…

Programme Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah I William Byrd – Bow thine ear, O Lord William Byrd –  Mass for Four Voices Orlando Gibbons – Thus Angels sung Anon (Mulliner Book) – Rejoice in the Lord always Edmund Hooper – Behold…

Jess Gillam is less a classical saxophonist than a musical force of nature. Critics enthuse about her “hot licks, lustrous tone and winning passion” (The Times) but radio listeners across the UK know her as a musical explorer – an artist with…

Programme Jonathan Harvey – Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco Josquin des Prez – Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria Jonathan Harvey – The Annunciation Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Stabat Mater Joseph Bates – Ceasing Rhiannon Randle – O nata lux Palestrina/Jonathan Harvey…

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, reinvented by the imagination of Max Richter and performed live by London’s own ground-breaking 12 Ensemble. Fresh, direct, and dazzlingly virtuosic, 12 Ensemble is an orchestra with a radical difference – a collective of fiercely committed young artists, determined…

One of Europe’s most exhilarating young ensembles performs two of the greatest musical testimonies to war, totalitarianism, and the destruction they wrought. Programme Edmund Finnis – Hymn (after Byrd) (premiere) Dmitri Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op 110a (arr. Barshai)…