In the run up to Christmas, Wigmore Hall welcomes groups of various kinds, specialists in various repertoires, all intent upon celebrating the festive season in style. Tenebrae launches the season with a wide selection of carols for all tastes.

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Tenebrae

Wigmore Hall

Eastman Chorale

University of Rochester

An intriguing programme from a leading Renaissance-specialist ensemble in which works by composers from an earlier period are matched with those of recent times and today, several of them specially commissioned to mirror their predecessors.

Renaissance Reflections

For awe-inspiring vocal magnificence and virtuosity, look no further than Tallis’ towering Spem in alium. Written for an astounding forty individual voice parts, Tallis’ motet is regarded as the pinnacle of Renaissance polyphonic ingenuity. Howells’ Requiem, a rarely performed Romantic masterpiece, is a sublime and complex work of soaring vocals and unexpected harmonies. Join the Master Chorale for a singular performance of two monumental masterpieces, and a varied sonic showcase of music reflecting on the same spirit of hope, devotion, and deliverance – including the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Affirmations

Spem in alium

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Students in the Vocal Consort certificate program perform a final recital in the Princeton University Chapel.

Vocal Consort

Princeton University Chapel

Organ student Oak Martin will present a program that includes works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Mary Beth Bennett, Herbert Howells, Leslie Adams, Louis Vierne, J.S. Bach and Charles-Marie Widor on Saturday, April 29th at 7:00 PM at All Hallows Episcopal Church in Wyncote. He will be joined by Christopher Correa in a duet for organ and oboe.

Curtis at All Hallows

All Hallows Episcopal Church

Voilà vingt ans que James O'Donnell exerce la charge d'«Organist and Master of the Choristers» – entendez: de directeur de la musique – sous les voûtes de l'une des plus prestigieuses églises d'Angleterre: Westminster Abbey. Deux ans après le titulaire de Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier Latry, il est convié à la tribune de l'église Saint-Maurice de Saanen pour y faire résonner les plus belles pages de son répertoire, en harmonie bien sûr avec la thématique de l'été. C'est ainsi que l'on se délectera à l'écoute de pages pour orgue des grands maîtres anglais, de Purcell à Vaughan Williams. Une «tradition» serait-elle en train de naître?

Westminster Abbey at Saanen Church – James O'Donnell

Eglise de Saanen

He includes Healey Willan’s lesser-known Passacaglia & Fugue in E minor, and finishes with a complete performance of Widor’s famous Symphony No. 5 with its glorious Toccata.

Stefan Donner

Huddersfield Town Hall

Prize-winning Austrian organist and harpsichordist Stefan Donner visits from Vienna to play at Huddersfield Town Hall. He includes Healey Willan’s lesser-known Passacaglia & Fugue in E minor, and finishes with a complete performance of Widor’s famous Symphony No. 5 with its glorious Toccata.

The violin soars melodiously above the rest of the quartet in the gorgeous arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s most popular work The Lark Ascending, which concludes this concert of English music for clarinet and string quartet. Fantasies from the Baroque gems of Purcell’s Three-part Fantasias (arranged for string trio) to Imogen Holst’s Phantasy String Quartet sit alongside this perennial favourite and Holbrooke's intoxicating depiction of a Scottish Island in a magical Celtic evocation for clarinet and strings.

Herbert Howells

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 10, 2025

Stefan Donner · Opera North

Feb 10, 2025

Stefan Donner · Kirklees Town Halls

Mar 4, 2025

Ensemble 360: Fantasias and Flights - The Lark Ascending · The Stables

17 - 18 May, 2025

Howells & Duruflé Requiem · Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra

Past events

Dec 4, 2024

Tenebrae · Wigmore Hall

Nov 24, 2024

Eastman Chorale · Eastman School of Music

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