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…
I Fagiolini: Super-Choral, Super-Excellent
Inspired by a 17th century travel writer, I Fagiolini serves up a sumptuous banquet of Baroque music for multiple choirs, from Italy, Spain, Peru, Germany and England. 1608: Thomas Coryat – joker, foodie and travel-writer extraordinaire – arrives in Venice, and hears…
Ex Cathedra: Summer Music by Candlelight
In a candlelit St Martin in the Fields, virtuoso chamber choir Ex Cathedra presents music and readings inspired by the spirit of summer. Pure enchantment… As a summer day fades into evening, there’s something unforgettable about the atmosphere in St Martin in…
Baroque Passion: Music of Heartbreak and Healing
Part of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Easter Festival Programme J.S. Bach – Prelude from Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 Purcell – Hear my Prayer, O Lord Lotti – Crucifixus Scarlatti – Stabat mater Monteverdi – Maria, quid ploras? J.S. Bach…
Chineke! Voices: The music of Vicente Lusitano
Chineke! Voices rediscovers the powerfully original music of 16th century Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano – one of Europe’s earliest composers of African descent. Vicente Lusitano was a composer, a scholar, a priest and a rule-breaker – a man whose career spanned the…
Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight
Programme Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins Op 3 No 2 Bach – Air ‘on a G String’ Elgar – Serenade for Strings Albinoni – Adagio for Strings Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Performers…
