Romantic Bach by Candlelight
Beautiful Bach, reimagined by the Great Romantic Pianists Pianist Jayson Gillham explores the special magic that occurs when Bach meets the grand piano. Melody, majesty, and pure romance. Genius loves company, and from the serenity of the Ave Maria to the grandeur…
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason: London debut recital
Following her stellar performance at the 2021 BBC Proms St Martin-in-the-Fields presents the debut London solo recital by the young British pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. No-one who cares about the future of classical music can have missed the buzz around the Kanneh-Mason family…
Handel: La Resurrezione
Part of St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Programme Handel – La Resurrezione Performers London Handel Orchestra Nardus Williams Soprano Rachel Redmond Soprano Ed Lyon Tenor Callum Thorpe Bass Laurence Cummings Director Handel’s oratorio La Resurrezione takes the Easter story and turns it into pure…
Arvo Pärt: Passio
Part of St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Programme Pärt – Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem Please note this performance will last for approximately 70 minutes without an interval. Performers The Gesualdo Six Choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields Owain Park Director Christ Sam Mitchell…
An evening with the Chorus of English National Opera
Programme Britten – Jubilate Deo 3 Roderick Williams – A red, red rose Britten – The Last Rose of Summer Libby Larsen – Try me Good King Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music Britten – Choral dances from Gloriana Weir – King Harald’s…
The English Concert: Handel’s Serse
Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert and a world-class cast in a concert performance of Serse – Handel’s spectacular opera of love and power in ancient Persia. Serse rules a vast empire, but the human heart is more difficult to command, and…
The Tallis Scholars: The Earth Moves
Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars – a byword for transcendent choral singing – perform Brumel’s extraordinary “Earthquake Mass”, plus a UK premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang. “And behold, the earth moves” – just not, perhaps, in the way you expected….
The Music of Consolation: Bach, Schütz & Schein
Soul music, baroque style: John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir perform heartfelt choral masterpieces by Schein, Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach. “With peace and joy I travel beyond; In God’s will I trust with heart and mind…” For the composers of…
I Fagiolini / Tamsin Greig: Re-Wilding The Waste Land
100 years after TS Eliot published The Waste Land, actress Tamsin Greig and I Fagiolini combine poetry and music, to explore the roots of the poem that defined a century. ‘What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this…