Solstice of Light
Music with Scottish texts, links or composers, including a seminal work by Peter Maxwell Davies, who turns eighty this year
Festival Hall Organ Gala Launch
A concert to launch the newly refurbished Festival Hall organ, back in use for the first time since 2005, including the world premiere of one of the last completed works of the choir’s former Patron, Sir John Tavener. With John Scott, Alison Balsom and others. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Beethoven 9
With the Kensington Chamber Orchestra
Music from the Jacobean Court
With the Chelys Consort of Viols.
Kindly sponsored by Streamnet Limited as part of the Chiddingly Festival.
Also on 10 October 2014 at St Paul’s Covent Garden
Christmas in War and Peace
Celebrating the Christmas Truce 1914
Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil)
with Howells: Three Psalm Preludes (Set One)
Miserere
Music by candlelight for Lent and Passiontide
The House of the Mind
A celebration of 20th century English choral music. Part of the English Music festival
Dixit Dominus
Masterpieces by Handel and Bach,
Also on 9 July 2015 at St James Piccadilly, London W1
Prom 13
The Planets/BBC Symphony Orchestra.Conductor: Susanna Mälkki
Charades
Julian Allwood’s most ambitious work
A Winter Wonderland
A joyful celebration of the Christmas season