Music for a Summer’s Evening: Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Classics for a summer night: the Academy of St Martin in the Fields plays music by Vaughan Williams and his friends, including The Lark Ascending. In the suburbs of Edwardian West London, Gustav Holst dreams of an idealised English countryside. Maurice Ravel…

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K218 Caroline Shaw Entr’acte Haydn Symphony No. 91 in E flat major   Academy of St Martin in the Fields Tomo Keller leader/violin   The Academy of St Martin in the Fields plays at home:…

The pioneering 12 Ensemble perform Max Richter’s chart-topping reworking of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. 12 Ensemble 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…

Part of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Saxophonist Christian Forshaw joins vocal ensemble Tenebrae for an emotionally-charged meditation on the music of Eastertide – from Hildegard of Bingen to 21st century London. Drop, drop, slow tears…throughout two millennia, the music of Eastertide…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….