Programme 2021 - Sunshine after Rain
Thursday 17 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7pm
SUMMER SERENADE
Britten: Simple Symphony
Ireland: Downland Suite
Finzi: Eclogue
Holst: St. Paul's Suite
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
London Mozart Players
Mark Bebbington, piano
Friday 18 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7pm
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
Classic songs of love and romance by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin, Rogers & Hart and more
Mary Carewe & Graham Bickley, vocalists
Ryan MacKenzie, piano
Saturday 19 June
ON WENLOCK EDGE
Vaughan Williams’ evocative song cycle, presented with Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood’s award-winning shadow-play animation
Daniel Norman, tenor
Sholto Kynoch, piano
Sunday 20 June
St Bartholomew the Great, 5pm
Choral Evensong
Monday 21 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 1pm
RAINDROP PRELUDE TBC
A selection of Chopin's preludes including the celebrated 'Raindrop' Prelude, with lyrical works for solo piano by Cesar Franck, Schubert,
Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Granados
Elizabeth Sombart, piano
Tuesday 22 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 1pm
'SPIRIT OF ETERNAL SUNSHINE': Dvorak's American quartet
Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 no 5 'Lark'
Dvorak String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'
The Brother Tree Sound string quartet
Anna de Bruin, violin
Thea Spiers, violin
Peter Mallinson, viola
Julia Graham, cello
Wednesday 23 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7pm
I, CLARA
Lucy Parham’s beautifully crafted portrait of Clara Schumann, drawn from the composer’s letters and diaries and interspersed with live performances of her own works, and of music by Robert Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.
Lucy Parham, piano
Juliet Stevenson, narrator
Thursday 24 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7pm
TITLE
Poulenc: Sonata for Flute & Piano
Poulenc: Sonata for Oboe & Piano
Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe & Bassoon
Mark Bebbington, piano
Emer McDonough, flute
John Roberts, oboe
Jonathan Davies, bassoon
Friday 25 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7pm
TITLE
Royal Philharmonic Brass
Programme to be confirmed
Saturday 26 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 6.30pm
SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN
Shearing: Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare
Flanders & Horovitz: Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
Over the Rainbow... and songs of sunshine and rain
City of London Choir
Njabulo Madlala, baritone
Andrew Vinter, piano
Andrew Pask, bass
Mike Smith, drums
Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor