Spitalfields Music Pageant returns with occasions in iconic areas throughout East London from 27 June to 10 July 2024. The pageant opens with soprano Nardus Williams and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny in Within the Shadow of the Tower, exploring East London’s cosmopolitan historical past in a recital at St Peter advert Vincula within the Tower of London. The live performance encompasses a new work by Roderick Williams, considered one of 14 premieres being offered at this yr’s pageant. And we return to St Peter advert Vincula for Sing Joyfully: Tudor and Jacobean Music for the Chapel Royal carried out by Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London.
The Carice Singers discover one other facet of London historical past with Cries of London at St Botolph with out Bishopsgate, that includes Berio’s Cries of London alongside music by Alexander Papp, Mary Supply, Robert Crehan, Effy Efthymiou, Alice Beckwith, and Anibal Vidal. While the Light Creator will likely be speaking concerning the cries of London at St Botolph with out Bishopsgate corridor, and one of many pageant’s Neighbourhood Colleges initiatives additionally focuses on the topic. College students will likely be producing a sound set up impressed by the trendy day Cries of London, which will likely be on show at St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate on Tuesday 2 July.
The Manchester Collective are returning to Village Underground for a programme together with music by Missy Mazzoli, Edmund Finnis, Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Errollyn Wallen, Dobrinka Tabakova and a brand new fee from Jocelyn Campbell. The Nationwide Youth Choir Fellowship Ensemble will likely be becoming a member of Zoe Martlew (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano) and the trombone quartet Slide Motion for a live performance on the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, celebrating NMC Recordings’ 35 anniversary with a variety of music related to the label from Ben Nobuto and Alex Paxton to Zoe Martlew and Roxanna Panufnik to Brian Elias and Howard Skempton to Imogen Holst and Richard Rodney Bennett.
Me With out You from composer Emily Levy and Author-Director Mella Faye celebrates these we’ve misplaced and people of us who’re nonetheless right here, by music, dance and recorded interviews, at Metronome London.
The Academy of St Martin within the Fields makes its pageant debut with a programme of Ruth Gipps, Britten, Walton, Elgar, Walton, Jonathan Woolgar and Philip Herbert’ s Elegy: in memoriam Stephen Lawrence at St Anne’s Church, Limehouse. Stephanie Lamprea (soprano) and Anna Kjær (choreographer / dancer) be a part of the Hebrides Ensemble for Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire alongside an exhibition of recent work by double bassist and artist Kirsty Matheson at St Mary at Hill.
Alongside these and different occasions there are strolling excursions, talks and way more.
Full particulars from the pageant web site.
