Great Sacred Music: World Water Day

Marking World Water Day with music on the theme of rivers and streams, including works by Moses Hogan, Judith Weir and Trevor Weston. Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Directed by Andrew Earis Performed by St Martin’s Voices A sequence to speak to…

Including music by Grace Williams, Thomas Tomkins and Paul Mealor. Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Directed by Andrew Earis Performed by St Martin’s Voices A sequence to speak to heart, head and soul, exploring through songs and readings the great classical music of our religious…

There’s a dream theme to Drew Steanson’s programme with romantic and virtuosic works by pianistic giants Liszt and Rachmaninov. Song and poetry were at the core of American composer Amy Beach’s style. Each of her Four Sketches, Op. 15 (1892), is headed…

Blending heart warming song arrangements and colourful dances, Di Xiao’s Cançons i danses programme has a distinct Spanish flavour and features works by Schubert, Ireland, Ravel, Albeniz and Mompou. Di Xiao has been hailed as ‘a pianist of awesome gifts’ and was…

“When we all fall asleep, where do we go?” Billie Eilish. A programme exploring life after sleep, both temporary and eternal, featuring the premiere of John Casken’s Four Ghost Songs.

There is something for everyone in this eclectic programme spanning 4 centuries. Thomas Tomkins wrote his “A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times” in 1649 as an outpouring of his feelings about a time of uncertainty in the country – a situation…

In 1918, the 21-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold received a commission to write incidental music for a Vienna production of Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. Wartime restrictions, along with the intimacy of the theatre, with its small orchestra pit, necessitated that the…

Gabriella Liandu’s recital features a diverse repertoire, with selections from Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis and Jesus Guridi’s Seis Canciones Castellanas to Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles. Alongside these classical pieces, the recital will also showcase contemporary works by Jonathan Dove and Madeline Dring, as well as repertoire…

Nishla Smith is joined by two of the UK’s finest jazz musicians – Tom Harris on piano, and Misha Mullov-Abbado on double bass – for a concert comprised of beloved jazz standards from Bewitched to Paper Moon, threaded through with Nishla’s “darkly…