BRITTEN SINFONIA: STATIONERS' HALL 350TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Saturday 18 November, 6.30pm
This invitation-only event is a rare opportunity to experience the magnificent interior of this historic building as it celebrates its 350th birthday – and to hear music from Henry Purcell's piece Hail Bright Cecilia, which was premiered here in 1692.
Performers
Guy Cutting tenor
Britten Sinfonia Soloists
Programme
Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Purcell Arias from Hail Bright Cecilia
Handel Where’er you walk
Britten Pan from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Michael Berkeley Clarion Call and Gallop
Bliss Adagietto espressivo from Clarinet Quintet
Vaughan Williams Three songs from On Wenlock Edge
Coleridge-Taylor Nonet
Ahead of the day dedicated to the patron saint of music, Britten Sinfonia Soloists perform a programme of pieces composed in each of the last five centuries, including arias from Purcell's St Cecilia cantata that was premiered in this historic venue in 1692.