Programme 2019 - Words & Music
Wednesday 17 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Rutter: A Sprig of Thyme; Suite Antique
Faure: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine
John Rutter, conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
City of London Choir
Thursday 18 June
La Vie En Rose
St Mary at Hill, 7pm
Celebrating Parisian love, art and music with songs by Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and ‘Americans in Paris’ (excerpts from great musicals); melodies by Satie and Poulenc.
Mary Carewe & Mike Dore, vocalists
Philip Mayer piano
Friday 19 June
John Ireland: The Island Spell (from Decorations)
Debussy: Preludes
(Voiles; Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest (What the West Wind has seen); La Cathedrale engloutie; “General Lavine” - eccentric; Feux d’artifice) Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
John Ireland: Sarnia - an Island Sequence (Le Catioroc; In a May Morning; Song of the Springtides)
Poulenc: Improvisation no. XV ‘Hommage a Edith Piaf’ (solo piano)
Poulenc: Flute Sonata
Mark Bebbington, piano
John Roberts, oboe
Emer McDonough, flute
Sunday 21 June
Great St Barts, 6.30pm
Choral Evensong with works by Durufle, Villette, Lennox Berkeley
Tuesday 23 June
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7pm
Rêverie: Composer Portrait of Claude Debussy
Lucy Parham with Henry Goodman
Wednesday 24 June
St Brides, 7pm
Programme to be confirmed
Royal Philharmonic Brass
Thursday 25 June
St Lawrence Jewry, 1pm
Programme to be confirmed
Marta Fontanals Simmons, mezzo-soprano
Lana Bode, piano
Thursday 25 June
Alistair McGowan: The Piano Show
St Lawrence Jewry, 7pm
Includes works by Debussy, Satie, Chopin, Madeleine Dring and impressions
Friday 26 June
A Tale of Two Cities
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Ireland: A London Overture Dyson: In Honour of the City Holst: St Paul's Suite Poulenc: Gloria
London Mozart Players
City of London Choir
Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor