Programme 2019 - Words & Music
Thursday 20 June
Voice & Verse
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Settings of poetry by Finzi, Stanford,
Vaughan Williams, Pearsall, Elgar, Britten and Parry and more.
Texts include poems by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Bridges, Milton, Beaumont & Fletcher.
City of London Choir
Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor
Richard Gowers, organ
Thomas Humphreys, baritone
Friday 21 June
Star Cross'd Lovers
St Stephen Walbrook, 7pm
Songs of love and devotion by Campion, Dowland, Humfrey & Purcell
Grace Davidson, soprano
David Miller, lute
Saturday 22 June
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
From green, rolling hills to thrilling, historic London; from seaside to stage... this is a celebration of the peculiarly English way of life and love. With music by composers including Henry Purcell, Noel Coward, Lennon and McCartney, Benjamin Britten, William Walton and Sting; words by T.S. Eliot, John Masefield, W.H. Auden, John Dryden, Don Black and William Shakespeare.
Mary Carewe & Michael Dore, vocalists
Philip Mayers, piano
Sunday 23 June
Shakespeare: Take Him
For All in All
Walking Tour, 2.30pm
This 'companion to Shakespeare' tour celebrates how London shaped the life and work of William Shakespeare, on both sides of the river.
Sunday 23 June
Choral Evensong:
One Equal Music
St Bride's, Fleet Street, 5.30pm
Including settings of texts by Donne, Bridges, Bunyan and Herrick
The Choir of St Bride’s, Fleet Street, directed by Robert Jones
Monday 24 June
Let Us Garlands Bring
St Lawrence Jewry, 6.45pm
Settings of poetry for solo voice and piano. Includes:
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel
Finzi Let us garlands bring: Five Shakespeare Songs
and songs by Quilter, Britten and Ireland.
Thomas Humphreys, baritone
Raya Kostova, piano
Tuesday 25 June
All the World's a Stage
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 1.00pm
Piano recital including:
J. S. Bach/M. Hess 'Jesus bleibet meine Freunde' BWV 147
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet op.75
Tchaikovsky/Pletnev The Nutcracker Suite
Nicola Losito, piano
Tuesday 25 June
Echoes of Shakespeare
Walking Tour, 2.30pm
This tour features readings that evoke significant moments in the life and works of William Shakespeare - playwright, poet and Londoner.
Tuesday 25 June
Beethoven - The Man Revealed
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 6.45pm
Writer and broadcaster John Suchet introduces the evening's concert with a talk on Beethoven the man: the complex, tortured, passionate man behind some of the greatest music ever written.
Tuesday 25 June
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 5 ('Emperor')
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 1 and 5 (‘Emperor’), arranged for string quintet
Elizabeth Sombart, piano
Principals of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday 26 June
Elégie: Rachmaninoff, A Heart in Exile
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Pianist Lucy Parham's acclaimed ‘Composer Portraits’ chronicling the life of composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. Scripted from letters and diaries, and including many of his best-loved works for solo piano, as well as works by Scriabin and Tchaikovsky.
Lucy Parham, piano
Tim McInnerny, narrator
Thursday 27 June
Lunchtime Piano Recital
St Lawrence Jewry, 1.00pm
Includes:
JS Bach Sheep may safely graze
Debussy Clair de Lune
Debussy Prélude ‘La Cathédrale engloutie'
Ireland Sarnia - an Island Sequence
Mark Bebbington, piano
Thursday 27 June
Echoes of Shakespeare
Walking Tour, 2.30pm
This tour features readings that evoke significant moments in the life and works of William Shakespeare - playwright, poet and Londoner.
Thursday 27 June
Façade &
Carnival of the Animals
St Lawrence Jewry, 7.30pm
Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
Walton Façade - an Entertainment (poems by Edith Sitwell)
Sam West, narrator
Ben Pope, conductor
London Mozart Players
Friday 28 June
A Midsummer Night's Serenade
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Walton Henry V Suite
Finzi Love’s Labours Lost
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
London Mozart Players
City of London Choir
Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor
Tama Matheson, narrator
Rebecca Bottone, soprano
Maya Wheeler-Colwell, mezzo