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2022-03-30 07:39:37
Arvo Pärt's Passio at St Martin's Easter Festival
The centrepiece of St Martin's Easter Festival (which runs at St Martin-in-the-Fields from 7 to 18 April 2022) is a performance of Arvo Pärt's Passio on 12 April when Owain Park conducts the Gesualdo Six, St Martin's own choirs and members of the London Mozart Players. Pärt's setting of the Latin text from St John's Gospel uses a solo quartet as the Evangelist alongside solo baritone (Jesus), solo tenor (Pilate), choir and instrumental quintet. The work was premiered in 1982 and is very much a crystallisation of his early Tinntinabuli style. The festival opens with Jeffrey Skidmore directing Ex Cathedra in music by Bach, Purcell, Lotti, Scarlattin and Monteverdi, whilst saxophonist Christian Forshaw joins forces with Tenebrae for an exploration of old and new entitled Drop, slow tears: A Meditation for Choir and Sax [see my interview with Christian]. Good Friday features a performance of Bach's St John Passion when Andrew Earis directs St Martin's Voices with […]
2022-02-01 08:55:58
[…] hire. Music packs are available to download from the RSCM’s online shop (at £19.95), together with optional backing tracks, videos and other resources to inspire others to take part. And the RSCM not only wants groups to sing the piece but to share the performance, via the RSCM website or on social media with the hashtag #RSCMplatinum, and to encourage you there is a performance of the work by St Martins Voices, directed by Andrew Earis with organist Polina Sosnin, on the RSCM website. The RSCM's role is to nurture and sustain church music, and the RSCM hopes that this commission will draw attention to its wider role as well as encouraging groups to come together to sing. The weekend after the Jubilee, on 12 June 2022, is the RSCM's Music Sunday, an annual event that celebrates the role of church music in worship and the dedication of all church […]
2021-04-07 07:16:34
An audio-visual event combining 'Messiah' with images from the Saint John's Bible
[…] a performance of Handel's Messiah which takes place on Thursday 8 April 2021. This audio-visual event is part of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields' on-line concert series. Handel's oratorio (in shortened form) will be performed by the academy with soloists Carolyn Sampson (soprano), James Way (tenor), second prize in the 62nd Kathleen Ferrier Award, and Benson Wilson (baritone), winner of the 64th Kathleen Ferrier Award, with St Martin's Voices conducted by Andrew Earis. Full details from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields website.
2020-01-31 14:36:44
[…] Philharmonic/ Clemens SchuldtVictoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent7.30pm Friday 28 February 2020:Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Fantaisie for Piano and OrchestraBeethoven: Symphony No. 3Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra/ Roger NorringtonUsher Hall, Edinburgh7.30pm A guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 Friday 28 February 2020:Beethoven: Sonata for Piano No 14 in C sharp minorHandel: Water Music Suite in FFinzi: EclogueMozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Concerto for Piano No 12 in AAdam Johnson (piano), Brandenburg Sinfonia/ Andrew Earis,St Martin in the Fields, London7.30pm Friday 28 February 2020:Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F, Piano Sonata No. 10 in G, Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat, Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flatJonathan Biss (piano)Wigmore Hall, London7.30pm (post-Concert talk at 9.30pm) Friday 28 February 2020:Haydn: Symphony no. 52 in C minorBeethoven: Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano in C majorMozart: Symphony no. 38 in D majorBenjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin), Philip Higham […]