The English Concert: Handel’s Rinaldo
A world-beating cast joins The English Concert for Handel’s opera of knights, lovers and one very wicked witch… Love, war, and other enchantments: the warrior-hero of Handel’s Rinaldo battles sorcery as well as altogether more sensuous enemies. Rinaldo was Handel’s first Italian…
La Serenissima and Raffaele La Ragione: Vivaldi Mandolin & Violin Concertos
La Serenissima meets mandolin sensation Raffaele La Ragione for an all-Vivaldi extravaganza. Baroque Venice at its most stylish – and seductive. “Gorgeous” was how Gramophone magazine described the playing of Raffaele La Ragione. And if you never realised that a mandolin could…
Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight
The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi is a masterpiece of Baroque beauty and drama, still beloved by audiences three centuries later. In this richly varied programme, St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble presents Vivaldi’s iconic work in its full splendour, alongside Mozart’s exuberant Divertimento…
LMP play Bach’s Brandenburgs
In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched into the cosmos carrying some particularly precious cargo: two vinyl records designed to showcase Earth’s rich musical heritage to any curious extraterrestrials who might stumble across them. Among the selections was Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.5. The…
The Cardinall’s Musick: Allegri, Palestrina & masters of the Sistine Chapel
The Cardinall’s Music explores the musical treasure-house of the Sistine Chapel – music by Allegri, Palestrina, Lassus and Victoria, sung from the soul. Renaissance splendour, eternal beauty, and voices that seem to touch the face of Heaven itself. The Sisitine Chapel isn’t…
Baroque Classics by Candlelight
Join St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble for an hour-long programme of beautiful Baroque classics, including works by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi… Highlights include Pachelbel’s iconic Canon in D and Handel’s Water Music, a joyful showcase of Baroque vibrancy and variety which was originally…
Romantic Classics by Candlelight
Join St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble for an hour-long programme of beautiful Romantic classics by Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Massenet and others. This concert lasts one hour with no interval.
Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight
The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi is a masterpiece of Baroque beauty and drama, still beloved by audiences three centuries later. In this richly varied programme, St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble presents Vivaldi’s iconic work in its full splendour, alongside Mozart’s exuberant Kontretanz….
I Fagiolini: Monteverdi Vespers
Picture the glittering interior of St Mark’s, Venice; ringing and aglow with majestic sacred music. To hear Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 performed live is to travel in time, and to experience some of the greatest choral music of any era – a…
