Arvo Pärt: Passio

Part of St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Programme Pärt – Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem Please note this performance will last for approximately 70 minutes without an interval. Performers The Gesualdo Six Choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields Owain Park Director Christ Sam Mitchell…

Part of St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Programme Handel – La Resurrezione Performers London Handel Orchestra Nardus Williams Soprano Rachel Redmond Soprano Ed Lyon Tenor Callum Thorpe Bass Laurence Cummings Director Handel’s oratorio La Resurrezione takes the Easter story and turns it into pure…

Programme Britten – Jubilate Deo 3 Roderick Williams – A red, red rose Britten – The Last Rose of Summer Libby Larsen – Try me Good King Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music Britten – Choral dances from Gloriana Weir – King Harald’s…

Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert and a world-class cast in a concert performance of Serse – Handel’s spectacular opera of love and power in ancient Persia. Serse rules a vast empire, but the human heart is more difficult to command, and…

Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars – a byword for transcendent choral singing – perform Brumel’s extraordinary “Earthquake Mass”, plus a UK premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang. “And behold, the earth moves” – just not, perhaps, in the way you expected….

Soul music, baroque style: John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir perform heartfelt choral masterpieces by Schein, Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach. “With peace and joy I travel beyond; In God’s will I trust with heart and mind…” For the composers of…

100 years after TS Eliot published The Waste Land, actress Tamsin Greig and I Fagiolini combine poetry and music, to explore the roots of the poem that defined a century. ‘What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this…

Inspired by a 17th century travel writer, I Fagiolini serves up a sumptuous banquet of Baroque music for multiple choirs, from Italy, Spain, Peru, Germany and England. 1608: Thomas Coryat – joker, foodie and travel-writer extraordinaire – arrives in Venice, and hears…

Part of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Programme J.S. Bach – Prelude from Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 Purcell – Hear my Prayer, O Lord Lotti – Crucifixus Scarlatti – Stabat mater Monteverdi – Maria, quid ploras? J.S. Bach…