Icosa dir. Luke Mather

www.icosachoir.com

Directed by Julian Perkins

Telemann Uns ist ein Kind geboren – soprano duet

Part of St John's Smith Square 32nd Christmas Festival

The London Choral Sinfonia
Gallery Choir of Westminster Cathedral Choir School
Francesca Chiejina soprano
Nick Pritchard tenor
Michael Waldron conductor

Fletcher arr. Owain Park Ring out wild bells
Donald Fraser This Christmastide
Carol Canning Lullay my liking
Trad arr. West Silent Night
Trad arr. Grafton I wonder as I wander
Ireland The Holy Boy
Trad. arr. Pappenheim O Holy Night
Britten Saint Nicolas

Canticum
dir. Mark Forkgen

Directed by Mark Forkgen.

Philharmonia Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Sarah Tynan soprano
Philharmonia Voices

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.7 (Sinfonia antartica)
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Holst: The Planets

Nicolai Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor  
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 

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Holst The Planets

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Voices
John Wilson conductor

Handel Concerto grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10
Bach Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Vivaldi Gloria

Katherine Watson soprano
Robert Vanryne trumpet
Michael Waldron conductor

Directed by Martin Neary

Soprano soloist in Jonathan Harvey I love the Lord and Cecilia McDowall The Lord is good

Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Voices (Ladies) 
Tiffin Boys' Choir

Directed by Luke Mather.

Soprano soloist (Sextus)
The Bishop's Consort and David Stancliffe

'In between the psalms came some extremely enjoyable solo singing: Sopranos Laura Baldwin and Miranda Ostler brought the intimacy of madrigal singing to Pulchra Es, particularly in the flowing lines towards the end.' – Jane Shuttleworth, Music in Durham (Full review here.)

Bernstein Chichester Psalms
Albright Chichester Mass
Kodaly Missa Brevis

Mark Forkgen conductor

Rutter Mass for the Children
Parry I was Glad, Jerusalem

Oliver Lallemant conductor

Soprano soloist – Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer

God is Gone Up Finzi; Great is the Lord Elgar; Jubilate Deo Walton amongst other choral favourites

Willington School Choristers
Willington School Festival Chorus
Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger

Miranda Ostler soprano
Oliver Gerrish alto
William Johnston Davies tenor
Nick Ashby bass

Highlights from Handel's Messiah

The Scholars of Sloane Square Choral Society present a veritable carnival of animals depicted in song.

Including works by Britten, Haydn, Poulenc, Bernstein, and others.

Miranda Ostler | Soprano
Emma Pelkiewicz | Alto
Alistair Walker | Tenor
Louis Geary | Bass
James Orford | Piano

Music by Bax, Delius, Ireland, Moeran, and Warlock

The Carice Singers mark their debut performance at the English Music Festival in Oxfordshire with a vibrant celebration of their recently completed mini-series of CD recordings for Naxos.

George Parris, conductor

Music by Bax, Delius, Ireland, Moeran, and Warlock

The Carice Singers return to the intimate Cotswold setting of St Michael's Church, Whichford for a vibrant celebration of early-twentieth-century British composers. 

George Parris, conductor

Join the LCS for this Baroque extravaganza, exploring two of the towering composers from this peroid. The first half of the programme showcases three of Bach's astonishingly profound motets, contrasting with Handel's dazzling and exuberant Dixit Dominus in the second.

Bach Lobet den Herrn, Komm Jesu Komm, Singet dem Herrn
Handel Dixit Dominus
Bach Cello Suites

Michael Waldron, conductor | Guy Johnston, cello | London Choral Sinfonia

Music by Julian Marshall

Uniting his works with the Italian masters that inspired him, MVSICA ANTICA perform Henry Purcell's haunting sacred scena In Guilty Night alongside Luigi Rossi's little-known cantata Disperar di se Stesso, before culminating in a semi-staged performance of some of the songs that earned him the title 'Orpheus Britannicus'.

MVSICA ANTICA: 
Miranda Ostler and Jessica Eucker soprano
Andrew Woodmansey tenor
Christopher Jeanes bass
Suzie Capps cello
Oliver Doyle harpsichord 

Rachmaninov The Bells
Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Mark Forkgen conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra