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Events
Temple Singers, James Vivian (director)
Temple Church
24th Mar 2010
18:45 - 20:00
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Tickets: £20, £15, £10
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Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle was written in 1863, "the last", the composer called it, "of my péchés de vieillesse" (sins of old age). Written for piano and harmonium, it was characterized apocryphally by Napoleon III as neither little, nor solemn, nor particularly liturgical. It is however refined and elegant, while being utterly exuberant in its display of the composer’s breathtaking skill in contrapuntal writing.
Scored for piano and harmonium, in the hands of a genius such as Rossini, this unusual combination of instruments combines brilliance and pathos in glorious harmony.
This concert is generously supported by Richard and Penny Aikens.
Catherine Martin (violin), Greg Morris (organ)
Temple Church
29th Mar 2010
13:15 - 13:46
Free Event
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Julius Drake (piano)
Middle Temple Hall
26th Apr 2010
19:30 - 21:30
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Tickets: £45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5 (including interval wine)
Iestyn Davies is one of the UK’s leading young countertenors, whose career has now burst onto the international stage with a diary of engagements taking him around Europe, Norh America and recently, closer to home, in his debut at the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden.
In the first solo counter tenor recital in the Temple Song series, Iestyn joins Julius Drake in a programme celebrating the rich variety of the English song book including Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad and songs by
Purcell, Britten, Tippet, Gurney and Vaughan Williams.
This concert is generously supported by The Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation and Robert Venables QC, Tax Chambers, Lincoln's Inn.
Holst Singers, Stephen Layton (director), Joseph Crouch (cello)
Temple Church
26th May 2010
18:45 - 20:00
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Komm, Jesu, Komm! BWV 229
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf BWV 226
Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden BWV 230
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV 225
Cello Suites no. 1 in G major BWV 1007 & no. 2 in D minor BWV 1008
In this welcome return to the Temple, the Holst Singers are joined by cellist Joseph Crouch, welI known to us as a member of the Temple Players, for a concert combining two of Bach’s hauntingly beautiful and virtuosic suites for solo cello, with four of his motets.
Bach wrote motets only for special occasions (probably funerals) with the texts based on biblical quotations and chorales. On the occasions for which they were composed, he normally had more choristers at his disposal than was usual and was thus able to use between five- and eight-part writing, musical complexity of the kind at which the Holst singers excel.
This concert is generously supported by The Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation and Robert Venables QC, Tax Chambers, Lincoln's Inn.
Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano) and Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
Temple Church
7th Jun 2010
18:45 - 20:00
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Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42
Kerner Lieder, Op. 35
Over three early evening concerts, Julius Drake will present four outstanding young vocalists Pumeza Matshikiza, Anna Grevelius, Robin Tritchler, and Marcus Farnsworth (winner of the 2009 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition) who he will be
mentoring over the coming months.
This will be an excellent opportunity to hear future stars of the concert platform working with one of the world’s outstanding accompanists.