Events

Nathan Vale – tenor
Jonathan Beatty - piano

Songs by Schubert and Wolf
Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire

The talented young British tenor Nathan Vale returns to the Temple Church for this lunchtime recital of late-Romantic songs. His programme will include songs from Schubert and Wolf, together with Poulenc’s song cycle. This series of six melodies, based on the poems of Louise de Vilmorin, are set for solo voice and piano and, interestingly, it was not a tenor, but the soprano Geneviève Touraine who gave the first performance in 1942.


Tickets: £10 (unreserved seating)

Tickets: £45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5

Fauré and Wolf, Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles and Schubert- including An Sylvia, Die Sterne and Schubert’s setting of Schiller’s Gruppe aus dem Tartarus.

One of the world’s most charismatic and highly sought-after singers of our generation, the celebrated English baritone Simon Keenlyside performs for the first time in the Temple Song Series, with Julius Drake. Keenlyside has performed on many of the world’s greatest opera stages, including the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala, Milan, but he is also one of the most sought-after song recitalists of his generation.

Please note this highly anticipated recital will take place in the Temple Church.

“Keenlyside slipped effortlessly from one ravishing head-voice ascent to the next, a sound so honeyed and so enticing that whilst listening to it you can’t imagine that there is a lovelier lyric baritone on the planet.”
- Edward Seckerson, The Independent

Tickets: £35, £25, £15

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen

Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610

Monteverdi’s famous Vespers was first printed in Venice in 1610 when the composer was working at the ducal court in Mantua. The work is monumental in scale, and requires a choir large and skilful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece. It is being performed for the first time in the Temple Church, 400 years after it was first published.


The Sixteen is an internationally acclaimed choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers in 1979. The group's special reputation is for performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, bringing fresh insights into Baroque and early Classical music and a diversity of twentieth-century music, and is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder, Harry Christophers.