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Luminous Night: An Online Concert

St Martin’s are delighted to present Luminous Night, an online concert from the talented musicians of St Martin’s Voices and Strings. We understand the uncertain and difficult nature of the current lockdown and invite all ages to be transported, uplifted and inspired through an hour of mood-enriching instrumental and choral music. This musical journey takes us through the course of the day, from dawn to dusk and beyond into the luminous reveries of night-time.

Programme

Elgar – Chanson de Matin
Stanford – The Blue Bird
Finzi – My spirit sang all day
Waldteufel – Skater’s Waltz
Brahms – Geistliches Lied
Barber – Sure on this shining night
Sullivan – The long day closes
Arr. Humphries – A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Tchaikovsky – Movements from ‘The Nutcracker’
(i) Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
(ii) Trepak: Russian Dance
(iii) Dance of the Reed-Flutes
Gjeilo – Luminous Night of the Soul

Performers

St Martin’s Voices
St Martin’s Strings
Directed by Andrew Earis

How to watch the online concert

You can watch the performance as many times as you like until Tuesday 16 March. Your access details will be sent to you via email, with full details of how to watch the concert.

Our thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for supporting this concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
St Martin’s Voices, St Martin’s Strings and St Martin-in-the-Fields church are closely following government guidance and each concert will adhere accordingly to the latest advice.

Great Sacred Music online: Work

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Work.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Andrew Earis and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:
Come, labour on – Noble
Lord of all hopefulness – Nils Greenhow
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go
Love’s redeeming work is done – Bryan Kelly

The music was recorded in-person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

Watch on our Facebook page or Music YouTube Channel.

Click below to listen and browse our podcasts catalogue.

Listen to Great Sacred Music podcasts

Great Sacred Music online: Epiphany

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Epiphany.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Andrew Earis and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:

As with gladness men of old
Die Könige (The Three Kings) – Cornelius
Coventry Carol – arr.  Audrey Snyder
No small wonder – Paul Edwards

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

Watch on our Facebook page or Music YouTube Channel.

Click below to listen and browse our podcasts catalogue.

Listen to Great Sacred Music podcasts

Handel – Messiah

As part of the Fresh Horizons concert series.

This exclusive performance unites the musical mastery of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and St Martin’s Voices with light projections curated by Nina Dunn Studio to create a unique audio-visual experience. The tour-de-force choruses and arias of Handel’s masterpiece oratorio resonate in the Baroque architecture of the church, enhanced by illuminations on the iconic east window.

Programme

Handel – Messiah

Performers

Carolyn Sampson Soprano
James Way Tenor
Benson Wilson Baritone
St Martin’s Voices
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
With light projections by Nina Dunn Studio

How to watch the online concert

You can watch the performance from 7.30pm on Thursday 8 April and it will be available to watch as many times as you like for the following 30 days. Your access details will be sent to you 24 hours before the performance starts, with full details of how to watch the concert.

Our thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, for supporting the Fresh Horizons concert series at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
St Martin’s Voices, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and St Martin-in-the-Fields church are closely following government guidance and each concert will adhere accordingly to the latest advice.

Stainer – The Crucifixion

As part of the Fresh Horizons concert series.

St Martin’s Voices and the London Mozart Players mark Maundy Thursday with the premiere performance of Iain Farrington’s arrangement of The Crucifixion by Stainer. This new orchestral arrangement imbues Stainer’s Passiontide oratorio with fresh colour and relevance, whilst preserving the much-loved elements of the original work including the cherished chorus God So Loved the World.

Programme

Stainer arr. Iain Farrington – The Crucifixion

Performers

Robin Bailey Tenor
Andrew Davies Bass
St Martin’s Voices
London Mozart Players

How to watch the online concert

You can watch the performance from 7.30pm on Thursday 1 April and it will be available to watch as many times as you like for the following 30 days. Your access details will be sent to you 24 hours before the performance starts, with full details of how to watch the concert.

Our thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, for supporting the Fresh Horizons concert series at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
The London Mozart Players, St Martin’s Voices and St Martin-in-the-Fields church are closely following government guidance and each concert will adhere accordingly to the latest advice.

Great Sacred Music online: Baptism of Christ

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Baptism of Christ.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Andrew Earis and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:

Come, Holy Ghost – Attwood arr. David Iliff
O for a closer walk with God – Anthony Caesar
I want Jesus to walk with me – Spiritual arr. David Iliff
A Gaelic Blessing – John Rutter

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

Watch on our Facebook page or Music YouTube Channel.

Click below to listen and browse our podcasts catalogue.

Listen to Great Sacred Music podcasts

Great Sacred Music: Family

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Family.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Gabriella Noble and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:
The love of all the earth (Nils Greenhow)
Ave Maria (Victoria)
Love is his word, love is his way
For the beauty of the earth (John Rutter)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

Watch on our Facebook page or Music YouTube Channel.

Click below to listen and browse our podcasts catalogue.

Listen to Great Sacred Music podcasts

Great Sacred Music: Birth

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Birth.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Gabriella Noble and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:
God of Eve and God of Mary
Nativity Carol (John Rutter)
O Lord of every shining constellation
Prayer of St Richard of Chichester (Malcolm Archer)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

Watch on our Facebook page or Music YouTube Channel.

Click below to listen and browse our podcasts catalogue.

Listen to Great Sacred Music podcasts

A Christmas Celebration with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields – online concert

Please note: Due to the new Tier 3 restrictions in London, this concert was pre-recorded behind closed doors rather than live-streamed.

Programme

Trad. – Once in Royal
Rutter – What sweeter music
Trad. arr. Farrington – Silent Night
Handel – Selected choruses from Messiah
Darke – In the bleak midwinter
Trad. arr. Willcocks – Unto us is born a Son
Fauré – Nocturne from Shylock Op.57
Trad. arr. Shaw – Coventry Carol
Cornelius – The Three Kings
Trad. arr. Farrington – O little town of Bethlehem
Frank Bridge – Sir Roger de Coverley, A Christmas Dance
Rutter – Love came down at Christmas
Leroy Anderson – Sleigh Ride
Mendelssohn – Hark! the herald angels sing
Trad. arr. Warrell – We wish you a merry Christmas

How to watch the online concert

You can purchase tickets by clicking the yellow “Book” button below.

You can watch the performance as many times as you like from 7.30pm on Friday 18 December until 7.30pm on Saturday 23 January 2021.

Please note: following purchase, it can take up to 1 hour for the link and password to be sent to you.

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and St. Martin-in-the-Fields church are closely following government guidance and each concert will adhere accordingly to the latest advice.

Our thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, for supporting the re:connect concert series at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

A Renaissance Christmas – online concert

Programme

Byrd – Vigilate
Guerrero – Canite tuba
Tallis – Videte miraculum
Victoria – Ave Maria à 8
Aleotti – Angelus ad pastores ait
Guerrero – Pastores loquebantur… Videntes autem
Dering – Quem vidistis, pastores?
Victoria – O magnum mysterium
Lasso – Videntes stellam magi
Hassler – Verbum caro factum est à 6
Mouton – Nesciens mater
Philips – O beatum et sacrosanctum diem
Eccard – Resonet in laudibus
Byrd – Puer natus est nobis
Sweelink – Hodie Christus natus est

How to watch the online concert

You can purchase tickets by clicking the yellow “Book” button below.

24 hours before the concert starts, you will receive an email containing a link and password. This link will be active from 7.30pm on Thursday 17 December; simply click on the link and enter the password when prompted. You can watch the performance as many times as you like until 7.30pm on Saturday 16 January.

Please note: if you are purchasing tickets on the day of the broadcast, it can take up to 1 hour for the link and password to be sent to you.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields church is closely following government guidance and each concert will adhere accordingly to the latest advice.

Our thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, for supporting this concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields.