Flights of Fancy
Friday 25 April 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where there’s music, there’s meaning. And where there’s meaning, there’s heated debate about who’s right and who’s wrong.
Sometimes the symbolism is clear, like in Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending; it beautifully depicts a soaring bird, brought to life by the solo violin. Joanna Marsh’s In Winter’s House draws from a fairy-tale like setting of light and dark text. Other pieces leave their narratives open to interpretation, like Coleridge-Taylor’s Four Noveletten (translated as ‘short stories’) which lets listeners’ imaginations run wild.
Meaning can also be attached retrospectively. Take Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings – written in the 19th century, it was intended to provide light entertainment and background music for social gatherings. Today, aviation enthusiasts might identify it with piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, all thanks to British Airways adopting it as their boarding music.
Coleridge-Taylor Four Noveletten for Strings
Vaughan Williams (arr. Martin Gerigk) The Lark Ascending
Joanna Marsh In Winter’s House
Dvořák Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op.22
Simon Blendis director/solo violin
London Mozart Players
Dates, Times & Book
Fri 25 Apr | 7:00 PM | £32/£29/£22/£16/£10 | Book |
Share this event
Other things to do
Choral Classics: Sumer Is Icumen in
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
A beautiful 30 minute sequence of words and music, exploring much-loved choral repertoire.
Choral Classics: Peace I Leave with You
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
A beautiful 30 minute sequence of words and music, exploring much-loved choral repertoire.
Choral Classics: Be Thou My Vision
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
A beautiful 30 minute sequence of words and music, exploring much-loved choral repertoire.
Crypt Lates: Fallen Heroes - New Orleans Jazz
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.
Schubert & Berwald: Chamber Works
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
In the 200th anniversary of its composition, members of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique bring their ‘astonishing collective virtuosity’ (Bachtrack) to a performances of Schubert’s Octet, alongside the lesser-known Grand Septet by Schubert’s Swedish contemporary, Berwald.