Crouch End Festival Chorus – 7:30pm
Hailed by Betjeman as the Arts and Crafts cathedral, Holy Trinity Sloane Square provides the magnificent backdrop for the eclectic repertoire which kicks off the 40th anniversary season of the renowned Crouch End Festival Chorus.
This concert of a cappella works features Tallis’s glorious 40-part motet Spem in alium, the ethereal, lyrical Mass in G minor by Vaughan Williams, and Allegri’s mesmerising Miserere. The concert is completed by Rheinberger’s gentle lullaby Abendlied, and three pieces from the recently released Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers.
CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS
THE CHOIR
In the 40 years since it gave its first concert, Crouch End Festival Chorus, under the leadership of its co-founder David Temple MBE, has grown to be one of the world’s leading and most versatile symphonic choirs.
Now with over 140 singers on its books, it stages its own promotions in the UK’s leading concert venues, has made seventeen appearances at the BBC Proms and worked with some of the finest conductors and orchestras.
Its repertoire extends from the Renaissance through more traditional choral music to works by leading contemporary composers including John Adams, Hans Zimmer and Philip Glass. CEFC regularly commissions new choral music and champions underrepresented composers.
CEFC is in great demand for live promotions and recordings, most recently Elgar’s great oratorio The Kingdom, with soloists Francesca Chiejina, Dame Sarah Connolly, Benjamin Hulett and Ashley Riches, to be released by Signum Records. Its film and TV work has included the Elton John biopic, Rocketman, and Dr Who.
TICKETS
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Upcoming Events
Crouch End Festival Chorus – Reimagined: Monteverdi to MacMillan – 7.30pm
Reimagined: Monteverdi to MacMillan
A captivating evening of sacred and reimagined choral works, blending Renaissance masters with modern voices. Featuring Crouch End Festival Chorus and the Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
David Temple MBE, Music Director of Crouch End Festival Chorus says
When I first heard the Ferio Saxophone Quartet perform last summer, I immediately got in touch and asked if they would like to work with CEFC and me. What is extraordinary is the amazing variety of musical colours produced by this excellent quartet.
This palette of colours works brilliantly for early music, as they could easily pass for cornetts and sackbuts - hence our collaboration performing works by Monteverdi and Schütz.
They are equally at home with contemporary works by James MacMillan, Roderick Williams and Sarah Rimkus. Our concert will be a delicious mixture of ‘reimagined’ works from Monteverdi to MacMillan.
London City Philharmonic Emerging Soloists Gala Concert – 7:30pm
Join the London City Philharmonic for a spectacular evening celebrating the brilliance of our featured soloists. Set in the stunning acoustics of Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, this programme showcases a thrilling variety of instrumental concertos, ranging from Vivaldi's fiery Summer (uniquely arranged for saxophone) to the sweeping romanticism of Rachmaninoff and Saint-Saëns.
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