Arvo Pärt with Sansara
This year Arvo Pärt will celebrate his 90th birthday. Fretwork and Sansara celebrate
À la recherche du temps perdu
Echoes of Proust with French music for viols by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Louis Couperin, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Forqueray, Francis Poulenc & Nadia Boulanger
The Swaledale Festival with Ruby Hughes
A feast of baroque music, with Ruby Hughes: music by Purcell, Handel, Charpentier, J.S.Bach and Rameau
A Celebration of Orlando Gibbons
On this day, 400 years ago, Orlando Gibbons, one of England’s greatest composers died suddenly in Canterbury. We celebrate his music with Anna Dennis, Alex Chance, Hugo Hymas, Sam Boden & Jimmy Holliday. Nico Muhly wrote My Days as an homage to Gibbons and we reprise this Wigmore commission of 2012.
Orlando Gibbons & Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly’s ‘My Days’, which sets some of Orlando Gibbons’ autopsy, is contrasted with Gibbons’ own vocal and instrumental music, including the uproarious Cries of London. With Anna Dennis, Alex Chance, Sam Boden, Hugo Hymas & Jimmy Holliday.
Stour Festival with Iestyn Davies
Orlando Gibbons, Nico Muhly and a world premier of The Silver Swan, re-imagined by Silas Wollston
Orlando Gibbons
Commemorating 400 years since the death of one of England’s greatest composers
My Days, with Iestyn Davies
Music by Gibbons, John Paul Jones, Nico Muhly, Elvis Costello and Sting
Lamento, with Iestyn Davies
Expressive music from 17th century Germany by Schütz, stein, Scheidt, Buxtehude, and Bach
Take Five
Take Five viols, and what can you play? Paul Desmond (Dave Brubeck) of course, and music by Byrd, Debussy, Purcell, Michael Nyman, Tye and Kate Bush.
Lamento with Iestyn Davies
We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.
Lamento with Iestyn Davies
We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.
Lamento with Iestyn Davies
We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.
Lamento with Iestyn Davies
We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.
Lamento with Iestyn Davies
We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.
Lamento with Iestyn Davies
We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.
Take Five
Take five viols, and what can you play…. Debussy, Kate Bush, Byrd, Gibbons, Arvo Pärt and, of course, Paul Desmond, but brilliantly woven into five In Nomines by our own Jon Rees.
Secret Byrd
Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Canterbury Cathedral
Secret Byrd
Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Canterbury Cathedral
Take Five
Take five viols, and what can you play…. Debussy, Kate Bush, Byrd, Gibbons, Arvo Pärt and, of course, Paul Desmond, but brilliantly woven into five In Nomines by our own Jon Rees.
New work from Alexander Campkin
We join the fabulous Tenebrae at Wigmore Hall for an eclectic programme, including a new work for choir and consort by Alexander Campkin
Upon Silence in Malling
George Benjamin’s masterpiece, Upon Silence, with Susan Bickley at the Malling Festival
Art of Fugue, Art of Fantasy
Bach’s late masterpiece, together with the 20-year-old Purcell’s Fantazies
Lammermuir Festival
The first of two concerts in the wonderful Lammermuir Festival: Gibbons, Lawes & Purcell with one of our favourite singers, Helen Charlston
O Solitude
A programme of baroque music with Ruby Hughes: music by Bach, Rameau, Telemann, Purcell & Handel
Michael Nyman & Henry Purcell with Helen Charlston
Purcell songs and fantazias together with some of Michael Nyman’s most memorable works
Secret Byrd in Guildford
The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.
Secret Byrd in Guildford
The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.
Secret Byrd in Salisbury
The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.