Tour by members of the Epiphoni Consort to join with the Tribal Chamber Choir in the following programme: Ola Gjeilo - Dark Night of the Soul Luminous Night of the Soul Eric Whitacre - Five Hebrew Love Songs Tarik O'Regan - The Exstasies of Love Wednesday 2nd March, 8pm St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway Thursday […]
Handel and Bach masterworks St George's, Hanover Square 7:00 pm, Friday, 11 March, 2016 Pegasus are delighted to have been invited to return to the prestigious London Handel Festival for a varied programme of masterpieces composed by Handel and his contemporary J.S. Bach when both composers were in their early twenties – Handel’s youthful and […]
Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was a prolific and highly-regarded composer in nineteenth century Europe. His oratorio ‘The Last Judgement’, composed in 1826, was first performed in English at the Norwich Music Festival in 1830. The work was a mainstay of English choral societies right into the early twentieth century but is now performed relatively rarely – […]
The LSO Community Choir is formed of people living and working around LSO St Luke's. This concert includes songs inspired by hope and freedom, including 'I wish I knew how it would feel to be free'. I will be the alto soloist in the Tippett Negro Spirituals from his Child of our Time oratorio. David […]
Tallis’s 40-part masterpiece, Spem in Alium, is illuminated by his more intimate works and those of the present day including Gabriel Jackson, James MacMillan and David Bednall. Spem in Alium - Thomas Tallis Loquebantur variis linguis - Thomas Tallis Sancte Deus - Thomas Tallis If ye love me - Thomas Tallis O nata lux - […]
Broadway musical composer, jazz saxophonist and pianist, electronic music pioneer, Milton Babbitt is regarded as one of America’s foremost musical geniuses. In this special 100th birthday tribute, you will hear songs from his musical 'Fantastic Journey' as well as his groundbreaking piece 'Philomel' for soprano and tape plus performances of his very last works performed […]
As part of the Faversham Assembly Rooms recital series, Leonora Dawson-Bowling and Benedict Lewis-Smith will perform two song cycles, Barber's 'Hermit Songs' and Copland's '12 Poems of Emily Dickinson'. The 'Hermit Songs' use as their source a collection of anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in […]
Part of the Philharmonia Stravinsky series. Though he left Russia for good in 1914, Russia never left Stravinsky. In these three tales - semi-staged for this performance by renowned Russian theatre director Irina Brown - he looks back nostalgically to the country of his birth: in a pantomime-like burlesque about the Fox, the Cock, the Tomcat […]
The London Handel Orchestra’s performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at St John’s Smith Square in 2015, directed by Adrian Butterfield, was described by one reviewer as “the most perfectly performed musical experience in many years” (musicOMH). For the Mass in B Minor the same orchestra and director are joined by a stellar line-up of […]