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….
Crypt Close-Ups: Windborne – Music of Midwinter
Grab a drink and get close-up to artists performing by candlelight in St Martin’s dramatic crypt. These informal concerts are immersive and atmospheric and are a great way to experience sublime music in a whole new way, in the intimate candlelit surroundings…
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…
Iestyn Davies: Lamento – Sweet Sorrow
It soars, it shines, and it leaves listeners grasping for words. “It was as good as you are likely to hear, ever” said The Observer of the astonishing voice of countertenor Iestyn Davies, and in his Gramophone award-nominated 2021 album Lamento he…
Crypt Close-Ups: The Gesualdo Six – Fading
Grab a drink and get close-up to artists performing by candlelight in St Martin’s dramatic crypt. These informal concerts are immersive and atmospheric and are a great way to experience sublime music in a whole new way, in the intimate candlelit surroundings…
