Carducci Quartet/Anton Lesser: Testimonies of War

Programme Osvaldo Golijov – Yiddishbbuk Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Steve Reich – Different Trains With readings from children’s poems from Terezin and the writings of the composers. Performers Carducci Quartet Anton Lesser Narrator As a boy,…

Please note, this concert will last for approximately 90 minutes without an interval. Programme Tomás Luis de Victoria – Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday & Holy Saturday Interspersed with J. S. Bach’s music for solo violin Around the music will be woven poetry,…

Programme Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah I William Byrd – Bow thine ear, O Lord William Byrd –  Mass for Four Voices Orlando Gibbons – Thus Angels sung Anon (Mulliner Book) – Rejoice in the Lord always Edmund Hooper – Behold…

Jess Gillam is less a classical saxophonist than a musical force of nature. Critics enthuse about her “hot licks, lustrous tone and winning passion” (The Times) but radio listeners across the UK know her as a musical explorer – an artist with…

Programme Jonathan Harvey – Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco Josquin des Prez – Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria Jonathan Harvey – The Annunciation Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Stabat Mater Joseph Bates – Ceasing Rhiannon Randle – O nata lux Palestrina/Jonathan Harvey…

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, reinvented by the imagination of Max Richter and performed live by London’s own ground-breaking 12 Ensemble. Fresh, direct, and dazzlingly virtuosic, 12 Ensemble is an orchestra with a radical difference – a collective of fiercely committed young artists, determined…

One of Europe’s most exhilarating young ensembles performs two of the greatest musical testimonies to war, totalitarianism, and the destruction they wrought. Programme Edmund Finnis – Hymn (after Byrd) (premiere) Dmitri Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op 110a (arr. Barshai)…

Programme Rachmaninov – Variations on a Theme of Chopin Chopin – Selection of Waltzes Busoni –Variations on Chopin’s Prelude in C minor Brahms – Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 Beethoven – Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 Performers Peter Donohoe Piano…

The garden, the serpent, the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge – no story is older, and no lesson is more enduring. And what could be more alluring than an evening of musical temptation with baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James…