Bach: St John Passion by Candlelight
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and St Martin’s Voices join forces to perform Bach’s sacred masterpiece. The St John Passion is an iconic musical retelling of the Easter story, featuring Bach’s vocal and instrumental writing at its most dramatic…
English Baroque Soloists – Mozart Double Piano Concertos
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras return to their London home with the English Baroque Soloists, joined by renowned conductor Marc Minkowski for an evening of spectacular music including Mozart’s Symphony No.38, known as the ‘Prague’ symphony and Piano Concerto in F major K242,…
Tenebrae: Tallis Lamentations for Holy Week
Nigel Short’s virtuoso chamber choir Tenebrae takes “passion and precision” as its motto, and both qualities will be in play in this beautifully-conceived sequence of Easter music from across cultures and centuries. Tonight, as part of the St Martin’s Easter Festival, they…
The Gesualdo Six: Lux Aeterna
Holy Week is a poignant moment in the year, and grief touches all of us at some point during our lives, affecting each person differently. This beautiful programme explores mourning and loss, uncertainty and hope. Byrd and Bingham beautifully capture a sense…
SANSARA: Arvo Pärt at Passiontide
Global audiences have loved every note of Pärt’s profoundly communicative music; SANSARA choir’s Passiontide concert marks his 90th birthday year with a sequence of his best-loved masterpieces, including Fratres and the heart-rending Stabat Mater. They visit Tudor England too: ‘Not even the…
Ex Cathedra: Latin American Baroque – Ritual, 1631
Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra have pioneered the rediscovery of the vibrant sounds of South American Baroque music – a fusion of music from Europe, Africa and South America. The iconic Inca liturgy ‘Hanac pachap cussicuinin’ – the oldest printed polyphony in…
The English Concert: Bach Mass in B minor
In all of choral music, there’s no summit mightier than Johann Sebastian Bach’s tremendous B Minor Mass. But few masterpieces reward the effort more gloriously, and few ensembles are better-equipped to approach it than the pioneering early music ensemble The English Concert….
The Tallis Scholars: Palestrina & Pärt
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Arvo Pärt: two masters of sacred music, separated by five centuries and half a continent, but united by the purity, emotion and spiritual power of their work. For more than half a century, Peter Phillips and the…
Dunedin Consort: Handel Susanna
“Deceitful wolves, who left in truth’s defence / Wrong the high trust, and prey on innocence!” Susanna is beautiful, virtuous and unshakably faithful to her warrior husband. But after duty calls him to arms, she’s left defenceless – and when law itself…
