Handel: La Resurrezione
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…
An evening with the Chorus of English National Opera
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…
The English Concert: Handel’s Serse
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…
The Tallis Scholars: The Earth Moves
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….
The Music of Consolation: Bach, Schütz & Schein
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…
I Fagiolini / Tamsin Greig: Re-Wilding The Waste Land
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…
I Fagiolini: Super-Choral, Super-Excellent
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…
Chineke! Voices: The music of Vicente Lusitano
Chineke! Voices rediscovers the powerfully original music of 16th century Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano – one of Europe’s earliest composers of African descent. Vicente Lusitano was a composer, a scholar, a priest and a rule-breaker – a man whose career spanned the…
Ex Cathedra: Summer Music by Candlelight
In a candlelit St Martin in the Fields, virtuoso chamber choir Ex Cathedra presents music and readings inspired by the spirit of summer. Pure enchantment… As a summer day fades into evening, there’s something unforgettable about the atmosphere in St Martin in…
