Join us for an evening of wonderful music influenced by and written for Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. Beguiling and atmospheric music by Henry Purcell, Fredrick Handel and William Walton will be interspersed with readings from Shakespeare’s comedies and historical plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Henry V.
There can be no better evidence that Francis Poulenc was the ‘half monk, half rascal’ of reputation than the composer’s wickedly disciplined Organ Concerto, a knockabout game of chase and tag for orchestra and organ that one moment plays havoc with Bach and another finds deep spirituality. Former Christ Church…
Miloš Forman’s 1984 movie Amadeus is a masterpiece from beginning to end, telling of the ambition, obsession and jealousy that nearly thwarted the career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and of the sublime music that poured out of a genius whose foibles and vulgarity were all too human. Mozart’s volatile Symphony…
Shakespeare in Music Saturday 8 July 2023St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 19:30 Purcell Excerpts from Timon of Athens and Suite from The Fairy QueenWalton Two Pieces from Henry V SuiteLe Gendre Suite from Richard IIIHandel Water Music Suites Nos 2 & 3 Simon Trinder actorCayenna Ponchione-Bailey conductor Join us for an evening of…
The Orchestra plays music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his colleagues, inspired by Milos Forman’s 1984 movie.
Former Christ Church Oxford organist Stephen Darlington joins the Orchestra and conductor John Lubbock for Poulenc’s piquant concerto.