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The Temple Music Basis’s 2024/25 season provides the chance to listen to a various vary of music in quite a lot of areas in and round Temple. Issues kick off with Siren Duo (Claire Wickes, flute and Tomos Xerri, harp) within the intimate confines of Center Temple Library with an imaginative programme themed round fireplace and water together with music by Mozart (from the flute and harp concerto), Debussy, Piazzolla (from Histoire du Tango), William Alwyn (evoking the rivers and reedbeds of Suffolk), Toru Takemitsu (impressed by Melville’s Moby Dick), David Watkins, and Adina Izarra. We transfer to the wonderful areas of Temple Church for a efficiency of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Harry Christophers conducting the Sixteen.
One spotlight of the season should be tenor James Means’s recital with pianist Julius Drake and horn participant Richard Watkins. Their exploration of music for tenor, horn and piano consists of Schubert’s great, and comparatively little performed, Auf dem Strom, Britten’s The Coronary heart of the Matter (his growth of his Edith Sitwell setting, Nonetheless falls the rain) and the premiere of James MacMillan’s Duet for Horn and Piano, together with music by Schumann, and Poulenc.
Utilizing the Spherical Church somewhat than the common nave of Temple Church, Siglo de Oro, director Patrick Allies, will probably be collaborating with actors and readers, and students from the UKRI-funded Musical Lives challenge to deliver collectively efficiency of medieval French songs, Arabic poetry and Latin charters with narration evoking the world of medieval knight, William Marshal (d.1219 and buried in Temple Church).
Thomas Allery will probably be route the Temple Youth Choir which consists of younger singers from throughout London, together with choral students and former choristers of the Temple Church, coming collectively for his or her annual live performance for Remembrance. This yr they’re performing Fauré’s Requiem within the yr of the centenary of his loss of life.
At first of December, music at Temple is dedicated to the Winter Competition which options quite a lot of occasions together with Mark Padmore and Julius Drake in Schubert’s Winterreise, Onyx Brass in music from Monteverdi and Bach to Imogen Holst and Emily Corridor, an organ recital from Danish organist Hanne Kuhlman in music from Bach and Krebs to Karg-Elert and extra, the Sacconi Quartet in Ravel, Mendelssohn and Roxanna Panufnik, the choir of Merton School in carols and anthems for Creation, and Thomas Allery directing Temple Church Choir and Temple Gamers in Handel’s Messiah with soloists Jessica Cale, Rebecca Leggett, Stuart Jackson and Christopher Purves.
Full particulars from the Temple Music web site.
