Lunchtime concert at the beautiful St Dunstan-in-the-West on Fleet Street with Alice Turner. We are exploring arias from Handel's operas and oratorios where characters are facing the choice between vice and virtue or merely facing what fate has in store for them. The arias, many of them lesser known gems, demonstrate Handel's extraordinary versatility and […]
MAHLER Symphony No. 3 Bernarda Fink - soprano Jakub Hrůša - conductor Philharmonia Voices - chorus Children from Leicester Cathedral
MAHLER Symphony No. 3 Bernarda Fink - soprano Jakub Hrůša - conductor Philharmonia Voices - chorus Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Soloist and ensemble member at this special Valentine's Day concert. Combine a romantic afternoon in London’s famous literary Bloomsbury district with a recital of poetry by William Shakespeare and from the Song of Songs set to music by Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Thomas Tallis and Tomás Luis de Victoria. Also featuring a new setting by […]
A recital of folk songs and pastoral poetry set to music by 20th-Century composers from the British Isles including Britten, Vaughan Williams, Warlock, Stanford, Quilter and Gurney. These wonderful texts explore everything from nature's lessons about life, love and death to the pragmatic side of hard work on the land, wooing fair maidens and social […]
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 […]