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 […]
As part of the Exon Singers' 50th anniversary, this concert presents favourites from the last 50 years, including The Turtle Dove, Byrd’s Sing Joyfully and Duruflé’s Ubi caritas, with some of the best loved works commissioned from Festival Composers-in-Residence.
Recording at St Peter's Wyndham Square, Plymouth of commissions written for the Exon Singers over recent festivals including works by: Brian Chapple Matthew Martin Howard Skempton Richard Wilberforce Joseph Phibbs Gareth Treseder David Briggs Francis Jackson
Handel's brilliant Dixit Dominus will be conducted by the Exon Singers President David Hill, with soprano Katharine Fuge; in the first half Richard Wilberforce conducts Zeitgeist Chamber Orchestra in Vivaldi's famous La Notte Flute Concerto with Jaymee Coonjobeeharry, Bach's joyous Lobet den Herrn and Scarlatti's beautiful Stabat Mater.
Epiphoni perform a selection of music from their forthcoming Great Fire of London concert, marking its 350th anniversary, together with a preview of music by David Bednall from their forthcoming CD. For more details see https://www.epiphoni.org.uk/event/out-of-the-ashes-2/.
Bach, Schubert, Mozart and more as Pegasus opens the 2016 Brandenburg Choral Festival of London’s autumn series with a one-hour concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields church. For more information see http://pegasuschoir.org.uk/event/meditation-at-st-martins/.