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Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square
St John's Smith Square2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach's St John Passion, and St John's Smith Square will be marking this with a performance from Stephen Layton, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist on Friday 29 March 2024 as the culmination of this year's Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square.The festival, which runs through Holy Week, also includes the National Youth Choir in Fauré's Requiem, whilst the Southbank Sinfonia is joining forces with the Purcell Singers and conductors Mark Ford and Jonathan Schranz for a concert that pairs Mozart's Requiem with Eric Whitacre's When David Heard, Knut Nystedt's Immortal Bach and Kerry Andrew's O Nata Lux.Lunchtime concerts include organist Roger Sayer in Marcel Dupré's Symphonie-Passion plus music by Bach and Alfred Hollins, and the Civil Service Choir, conductor Stephen Hall, in masses by Schubert and Haydn.Full […]
2022-07-19 14:48:00
City of London Sinfonia's 2022/23 season - The World Rediscovered
[…] Quartet for the End of Time.At Village Underground, Schubert within reach will present a new take on Schubert's Octet. Played in the round in an informal setting, musicians will swap seats between each movement so that audience members can enjoy a more intimate experience of each of the different instrumental parts. Improvisations and introductions delivered by the musicians between each movement will enrich the musical experience.Coming in from the cold features music by Kaija Saariaho, Per Norgard, Knut Nystedt, Pēteris Vasks, Arvo Pärt and Dobrinka Tabakova, intended to evoke the journey from Nordic cold towards more enveloping warmth embodied by the term hygge.The Owl and the Nightingale is poet-laureate Simon Armitage's new translation of of the 900-rhyming-couplets-long Middle English debate poem between two arguing birds. The poem will be presented in the Queen Elizabeth Hall with music by Janequin, Couperin, Birtwistle, Pēteris Vasks and Huw Watkins.Back at Village Underground, Dance with the Devil features music by Vivaldi, […]
2019-04-01 09:36:22
MacMillan at 60: the Holy Week Festival at St John's Smith Square
[…] MacMillan's own Seven Last Words which is performed by Tenebrae & the Britten Sinfonia. The Marian Consort join forces with Music Centre London for MacMillan's Miserere Mei performed alongside Allegri's famous setting of the same text, plus the London premiere of Gabriel Jackson's Stabat Mater alongside Palestrina's double choir setting of the text. Tom Herring and the young professional ensemble Sansara perform the music of Sir James MacMillan alongside that of his Nordic contemporaries, Knut Nystedt, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, as well as a piece by the ensemble's associate composer Oliver Tarney. The festival finishes with a concert from the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, conductor Graham Ross, in a programme of Lenten music including MacMillan's Miserere.There are late-evening liturgical events (St John's is still a consecrated church), and on Maunday Thursday the service will include MacMillan's Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday.Full details from the St John's Smith Square website.
2018-08-01 08:58:40
Tippett and more: looking ahead to the Southwell Music Festival
This year's Southwell Music Festival runs from 22 to 27 August 2018 with events in and around Southwell Cathedral in Nottinghamshire. Curated by artistic director Marcus Farnsworth, the centrepiece of the festival is a performance of Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time with Marcus Farnsworth conducting the Festival Voices and Festival Sinfonia with soloists Susanna Hurrell, Madeleine Shaw, Andrew Tortise and Roland Wood. Also in the concert is a performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason as soloist.The inclusion of the Tippett (written in 1939) hints at one of the themes of the concert, the 1918 centenary of the end of World War One, and an Armistice Commemoration includes Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale alongside music by Debussy, Butterworth and Stuart MacRae. A Festival Voices concert on the wider theme of Remembrance includes Howells' Requiem alongside Knut Nystedt, James MacMillan and John TavenerThe busy Festival Voices are also singing Bach's […]
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