The London Chorus performs Elgar’s The Music Makers – 7:30pm
Taking place in the beautiful surroundings of Holy Trinity, Sloane Square at 7.30pm on Thursday 13 March 2025, The London Chorus will be performing Elgar’s The Music Makers together with the ethereal Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré.
This is a rare performance of The Music Makers so it’s a great opportunity to hear Elgar’s last major choral piece. Composed in 1912, it’s a setting of a poem by Arthur O’Shaugnessy. In it, Elgar quotes themes from his own works including the violin concerto, the two symphonies and most notably Nimrod from the Enigma Variations.
The concert also includes a performance of John Rand’s 3rd Piano Concerto. John has composed seven piano concertos as well as film music. This piece was written in 2003 and was recently revised. This first performance of the revised version will be brought to life by soloist, Alan Brown. Alan is in great demand and has a repertoire of over forty-five concertos, performing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Mozart Players among others.
Another of our favourite soloists, mezzo soprano Emily Gray, will be joining the choir for The Music Makers. Emily has performed as a soloist at the Royal Albert Hall, St. Paul’s, Kings Place, and the Purcell Room as well as giving frequent live performances on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.
Tickets £18, £28, £35. Book online at https://londonchorus.org.uk/event/elgar-the-music-makers/
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Doors open from 6:30pm for a 7pm performance. Tickets are £25, or £10 for under 25 year olds, and are available at the website below or on the door. Programmes will be available for purchase on the door for £2.
London Concert Choir – Howells Requiem & Stainer The Crucifixion – 7.30pm
in London Concert Choir for an evening of sacred music from two of the great English choral composers, in the perfect setting.
The understated beauty and emotion of Herbert Howells’ interwar Requiem offers the perfect foil for the reverent Victorian grandeur of John Stainer’s Passiontide oratorio, The Crucifixion.
Howells’ unaccompanied Requiem brings his unmistakable compositional voice and very personal interpretation to the Church’s liturgy for the dead. Composed in 1932, but unpublished until 1980, it provided the genesis of the more complex and widely acclaimed Hymnus Paradisi. With characteristic precision and clarity, Howells evokes loss, grief, reflection and redemption, blending elements of the Latin mass and The Book of Common Prayer.