• The Passing of the Year

    Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 7.00pm

    Stoller Hall, Manchester

    ORA Singers
    Suzi Digby, conductor
    Katie Derham, reader

    A programme of music marking the stages of the liturgical year, revolving around Jonathan Dove's song cycle for double choir and piano, The Passing of the Year.

    Tickets and further information at the Stoller Hall website.

    Epiphany
    Magi videntes stellam (plainchant)
    Orlando de Lassus, Omnes de Saba
    Emily Pedersen, Reflection on Lassus, Omnes de Saba

    Lent and Passiontide
    Pablo Casals, O vos omnes
    Peter Philips, Ecce vicit Leo

    Easter
    Victimae Paschali laudes (plainchant)
    Gregorio Allegri, Christus resurgens

    Jonathan Dove, The Passing of the Year
    Annabel Baxter, Spring

    Trinity
    John Sheppard, Libera nos
    Ryan Wigglesworth, Libera nos

    All Saints and All Souls
    William Byrd, Justorum animae
    Tom Coult, Reflection on Byrd, Justorum animae

    Advent and Christmas
    Adrian Peacock, Venite Gaudete!
    Hodie Christus est (plainchant)
    David Norland, Visitation
    Steven Sametz, Gaudete

  • The Language of Flowers | SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele

    Wednesday 7th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Speyer

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and recently commissioned works.

    Tickets and further information via the SWR website.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vidi speciosam
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Amy Bryce, Madrigals for Plants (world première)
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary

  • Hidden Polyphony

    Friday 16th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Usher Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    RSNO
    Thomas Søndergård, conductor
    Anna Dennis, soprano

    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)

    Further information and tickets at the RSNO website.

    G.F. Handel, Water Music Suite No. 3
    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)
    Henk de Vlieger/Richard Wagner, The Ring: an orchestral adventure

  • Hidden Polyphony

    Saturday 17th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort
    RSNO
    Thomas Søndergård, conductor
    Anna Dennis, soprano

    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)

    Further information and tickets at the RSNO website.

    G.F. Handel, Water Music Suite No. 3
    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)
    Henk de Vlieger/Richard Wagner, The Ring: an orchestral adventure

  • Treasures from the Sistine Chapel

    Saturday 24th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A celebration of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, "the eternal father of Italian music", in his 500th anniversary year. The programme also features music from the greatest composer of an earlier age, Josquin Desprez, as well as masterpieces by Palestrina’s Roman contemporaries, students and successors, showing his music in context and revealing the network of musical and personal connections underlying these astonishing pieces.

    Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

  • Dunster Festival Finale

    Monday 26th May 2025 at 3.30pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
       Rory McCleery, director
    Spiritato!
       Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

    J.S. Bach
       Mass in G Major BWV 236
       Du Wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
       Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich BWV 17
    Johann Kuhau, arr. J.S. Bach, Der gerechte kommt um

    Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

  • Songs of the Soul | Louth Contemporary Music Society

    Saturday 14th June 2025 at 8.00pm

    St Nicholas Church of Ireland, Dundalk

    Chamber Choir Ireland
    Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

    Kevin Volans, Canciones de la Alma
    Sarah Davachi, New Commission (world première)
    Kevin Volans, Glosa a lo Divino

    In the closing concert of Louth Contemporary Music Society's summer festival, Chamber Choir Ireland performs music of peace, strangeness, and hope. Led by Guest Director, Nils Schweckendiek, the programme features a setting of words by St John of the Cross to unearthly harmonies by Kevin Volans, and a new meditation by Canadian composer, Sarah Davachi.