Canticum – Restoration – 7.30pm
THE RETURN OF THE KING AND THE
FLOWERING OF THE ENGLISH BAROQUE
Canticum returns to live concert performance with a celebration of the Restoration, charting the re-establishment of choral singing in the 17th Century. The programme starts with music from the coronation of Charles II in 1660, before exploring a wide range of anthems, motets, canticles and verse anthems from some of England’s finest composers. It finishes with music composed by Handel for the coronation of George II in 1727.
10 November 2021
7.30pm
Holy Trinity Sloane Square
Henry Lawes Zadok the Priest
Pelham Humfrey Like as the hart
William Child O Lord, grant the King a long life
John Blow Salvator mundi
Henry Purcell Magnificat in G minor Remember not, Lord, our offences I was glad Hear my prayer, O Lord
INTERVAL
Henry Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
Funeral Music for Queen Mary
William Boyce O, where shall wisdom be found?
Maurice Greene Thou visitest the earth Lord, let me know mine
Upcoming Events
Bach and Pancakes
Enjoy Johann Sebastian Bach’s choral and organ music sung by members of Holy Trinity’s Choirs, including: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor while indulging in pancakes and more, as is tradition on Shrove Tuesday.
45 minutes of music followed by pancakes and refreshments,
Tickets £20 (£10 under 18s)
Holst Singers- Illuminations – Sacred Music of Europe – 7pm
Illuminations – Sacred Music of Europe opens our 2026 concert series with a pilgrimage of sacred choral music across northern Europe. Beginning in Finland with the stillness of Einojuhani Rautavaara, the programme visits the choral traditions of the Baltic states and Western Europe, exploring music shaped by prayer, ritual, and light.
Read MoreThe London Chorus – Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits – 7.30pm
Join The London Chorus for a rare performance of Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits, 7.30pm 12 March 2026 at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square.
The London Chorus presents a thrilling programme of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the greatest of all British composers and a Chelsea resident for 24 years. His Five Tudor Portraits, masterful settings of the poems of John Skelton, priest and tutor to Henry VIII, are at times bawdy, poignant and witty, and deserve to be heard far more often.
We also hear his popular Five Mystical Songs, settings of the 17th-century poet and priest George Herbert, and his Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, which conjures up an eloquent aural portrait of the Norfolk landscape and its people through five locally-sourced folk songs.