Concerts November–December 2019

www.smitf.org November and December are amongst the most exciting months at St Martin’s. In autumn we Welcome to hold our annual Autumn Festival. It begins with a performance of Handel’s rarely performed oratorio Israel in Egypt, in an exhilarating St Martin’s collaboration between two of our resident choral ensembles, St Martin’s Voices and our Choral Scholars (Tuesday 5 November), and accompanied by Brandenburg Sinfonia. This is followed by two exciting instrumental concerts – Ben Giddens playing two Handel organ concertos (Thursday 7 November) and American soprano Katharine Dain performing celebrated solo cantatas by Bach and Vivaldi (Friday 8 November). The festival concludes with a performance of Mozart’s monumental Mass in C minor (Saturday 9 November).

December is packed with carol concerts and services. Alongside numerous beautiful Christmas concerts with carols for audience and choir, highlights include St Martin’s Voices performing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Friday 6 December) and Handel’s Messiah (Thursday 19 December). On Friday 20 December we are delighted to welcome the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for their fi rst Christmas concert at St Martin’s in many years. In addition to a full range of carol December is packed concerts featuring a variety of choirs and “ ensembles we have added an additional concert with candlelit carol between Christmas and the New Year, on Sunday 29 December. Full details for the season are concerts. Book now to available in this brochure and on our website. avoid disappointment. Throughout this period, our free lunchtime concerts continue to take place every Monday, Tuesday and Friday, and feature some of the UK’s most exciting emerging young talent. Every Thursday at 1.00pm, we present Great Sacred Music, our 35-minute lunchtime sequence ” exploring through song and readings some of the great classical music of our religious heritage. And for something a little different, explore our jazz and live music evenings which take place most Wednesday evenings in our much- loved Café in the Crypt.

We look forward to welcoming you to St Martin’s.

Andrew Earis Front cover image © Susan Brown Director of Music

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Bach – Toccata in D Friday 1 November Bach (arr. Busoni) – Selections from 1.00pm Three Organ Chorale Preludes FREE Lunchtime Concert Bach (arr. Busoni) – Prelude and Fugue in E flat ‘St Anne’ Mozart – Rondo in A minor Beethoven – Sonata for Piano No 28 in A Jasper van der Klis Piano Brahms – Four Pieces for Piano Representing the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Mikhail Shilyaev Piano

Representing the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Tuesday 5 November

1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Friday 1 November 7.30pm Programme will be available on our website. Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight St Paul’s Girls School Music Scholars Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Representing St Paul’s Girls School Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins in B minor

Mozart – Divertimento No 1 in D Pachelbel – Canon in D Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Tuesday 5 November 7.30pm The Baroque Orchestra of London Sound of St Martin’s Sarah Moffatt Violin Autumn Festival Miki Takahashi Violin/Director Handel Israel in Egypt by Candlelight Tickets: £30 £27 £20 £15 £9 Handel – Israel in Egypt

Choral Scholars of Saturday 2 November St Martin-in-the-Fields 7.30pm St Martin’s Voices Handel – Royal Fireworks Music Brandenburg Sinfonia by Candlelight Andrew Earis Conductor Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Trumpets Handel – Water Music Suite in F Bach – Orchestral Suite No 3 Handel – Royal Fireworks Music

Belmont Ensemble of London Peter G Dyson Conductor

Tickets: £32 £29 £22 £16 £9 Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields

3 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Wednesday 6 November Friday 8 November 8.00pm 1.00pm Jazz and Live Music in the Crypt FREE Lunchtime Concert The Reliables St Martin-in-the-Fields Organ Series

This London-based jazz band creates a cool Buxtehude – Praeludium and Ciacona in C swingin’ sound in the tradition of Miles Davis Bach – Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor and John Coltrane. David Bednall – Evocation of Wells Cathedral ‘O Radix Jesse’ Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Vierne – Scherzo from Symphony No 5 Tickets on sale from 25 September Pierre Cochereau (arr. Briggs) – Gigue from Suite de Danses

Thursday 7 November Paul Walton Organ 1.00pm Assistant Organist, Bristol Cathedral FREE Great Sacred Music Psalms of Lament

For Remembrancetide, we explore some of the Friday 8 November famous psalms of lament. 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Autumn Festival St Martin’s Voices Vivaldi and Bach by Candlelight Andrew Earis Director Vivaldi – Sinfonia in G Bach – Movements from Orchestral Suite No 1 in C Thursday 7 November Vivaldi – Nulla in mundo pax sincera 7.30pm Bach – Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen Sound of St Martin’s Autumn Festival Brandenburg Sinfonia Handel and Mozart by Candlelight Katharine Dain Soprano Andrew Earis Director Mozart – Three Divertimenti Handel – Concerto for Organ No 4 in F Tickets: £29 £25 £18 £13 £9 Handel – Concerto for Organ No 13 in F ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’ Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Saturday 9 November 7.30pm Brandenburg Sinfonia Sound of St Martin’s Ben Giddens Organ/Director Autumn Festival Mozart Mass in C minor by Candlelight Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Haydn – Te Deum in C Mozart – Mass in C minor

St Martin’s Chorus Brandenburg Sinfonia Andrew Earis Conductor

Tickets: £30 £27 £20 £15 £9 Brandenburg Sinfonia

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 4 Wednesday 13 November 11 – 16 November 8.00pm Jazz and Live Music in the Crypt Mississippi Swamp Dogs Monday 11 November Inspired by the old style jazz masters of Louis 1.00pm Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton alongside FREE Lunchtime Concert today’s jazz giants of the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair. St Martin’s Voices perform solos and ensemble works marking the season of Remembrancetide, Tickets: £15 £12 £8 including works by Parry and Vaughan Williams. Tickets on sale from 2 October

St Martin’s Voices Andrew Earis Conductor Thursday 14 November 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Tuesday 12 November The River of the Water of Life 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert The Book of Revelation in words and music, including And I Saw a New Heaven by Elgar – Sonata for Violin in E minor Edgar Bainton. Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Anete Graudina Violin St Martin’s Voices Liene Circene-Ziemele Piano Andrew Earis Director

Thursday 14 November Tuesday 12 November 7.30pm 7.30pm Bach, Handel and Vivaldi by Candlelight Piano Pilgrimage by Candlelight Handel – Concerto Grosso No 8 in C minor Bartok – Etude for the Left Hand Bach – Air ‘on the G String’ Strauss (arr. Mann) – Morgen! Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin No 12 in E Reinecke – Piano Sonata for the Left Hand ‘L’estro armonico’ Bach (arr. Brahms) – Chaconne in D minor Rutter – Suite for Strings Rachmaninov (arr. Cimirro/McCarthy) – Handel – Air from Concerto Grosso No 10 Prelude Op 23 No 5 in D minor Nicholas McCarthy Piano Trafalgar Sinfonia Ivor Setterfield Conductor Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 Tickets: £29 £25 £18 £13 £9

Nicholas McCarthy

5 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Friday 15 November Friday 15 November 1.00pm 9.30 – 10.30pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Mozart Requiem by Candlelight

Carl Frühling – Trio in A minor Mozart (arr. Czerny) – Requiem (arranged for Brahms – Trio in A minor choir and piano duet)

Masumi Ogura Clarinet Addison Singers Janet Coles Cello Rupert Jeffcoat Piano Nadia Lasserson Piano Martin Ford Piano Representing the European Piano Teachers David Wordsworth Conductor Association Tickets: £15 (unreserved)

Friday 15 November 7.00 – 9.00pm Saturday 16 November Fauré Requiem by Candlelight 4.30 – 5.30pm Mini Maestro Family Concert: Fauré – Requiem Pachelbel Canon Other works to be announced. A beautiful Brandenburg Concerto, a chorale Charter Choir of Homerton to sing, and old-style dances – with Pachelbel’s College, Cambridge perfect Canon! Brandenburg Sinfonia Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter Conductor London Musical Arts Ensemble John Landor Presenter/Conductor Tickets: £33 (premium) £30 £27 £20 £15 £9 Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (under 16)

Saturday 16 November 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight

Purcell – Chaconne Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Bach – Air ‘on the G String’ Bach – Dances from Suite No 3 in D Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

London Musical Arts Ensemble John Landor Conductor

Tickets: £32 £29 £22 £16 £9 David Wordsworth

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 6 Wednesday 20 November 18 – 23 November 8.00pm Jazz and Live Music in the Crypt Red Stripe Band Monday 18 November A riotous mix of high jinks, boogie woogie, swing 1.00pm and classic rock ‘n’ roll. FREE Lunchtime Concert Tickets: £15 £12 £8 York Bowen – Prelude No 4 in C sharp minor Tickets on sale from 9 October Mozart – Rondo in A minor Dmitry Kabalevsky – Sonata for Piano No 3 in F Rautavaara – Selections from Seven Preludes Thursday 21 November Rachel Starritt – Ligetimania 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Rachel Starritt Piano Hymn to St Cecilia Representing the North London Piano School

A performance of Britten’s extended choral work Hymn to St Cecilia in the week of St Cecilia’s Day.

St Martin’s Voices Led and directed by Andrew Earis

Thursday 21 November 7.30pm Mozart Requiem by Candlelight

Rachmaninov – Bogoroditse Devo from Vespers Brahms – Geistliches Lied Mozart – Ave verum corpus Bruckner – Christus factus est Rachel Starritt Mozart – Requiem

Thames Chamber Orchestra Tuesday 19 November Christ’s College, Cambridge Choir 1.00pm David Rowland Director FREE Lunchtime Concert Keith Marshall Conductor Embassy and Cultural Institute Series Tickets: £29 £25 £18 £13 £9 Programme includes a variety of pieces by Latvian composers, including: Emīls Dārziņš – Kaut reizi vien Jāzeps Vītols – Pie tava augstā, baltā loga Alfrēds Kalniņš – Rudens zieds Jānis Mediņš – Glāsts

Pauls Putnins Bass-Baritone Antonina Suhanova Piano Representing the Embassy of Latvia

Keith Marshall

7 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Friday 22 November Saturday 23 November 1.00pm 6.00 – 7.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Allegri Miserere by Candlelight

Gounod (arr. Liszt) – Hymne à Sainte Cécile Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus Sihoo Kim – Movements from Sonata for Piano Other works to be announced. Liszt – God Save the Queen Beethoven – Sonata for Piano No 24 in F sharp The Choir of Pembroke College, Alkan – Le festin d’Ésope Cambridge Anna Lapwood Conductor Minkyu Kim Piano Representing the Beethoven Piano Society Tickets: £15 (unreserved) of Europe

Saturday 23 November 8.00 – 10.00pm Vivaldi Four Seasons and Purcell by Candlelight

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Purcell – My Heart is Inditing

Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir Brandenburg Baroque Soloists Persephone Gibbs Violin Ralph Allwood Conductor

Tickets: £35 (premium) £32 £29 £22 £16 £9 Minkyu Kim

Friday 22 November 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Mozart and Moonlight by Candlelight

Beethoven – Sonata for Piano No 14 in C sharp minor ‘Moonlight’ Mozart – Concerto for Piano No 12 in A Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Brandenburg Sinfonia Jocelyn Freeman Piano Andrew Earis Director

Tickets: £30 £27 £20 £15 £9 Ralph Allwood

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 8 Wednesday 27 November 25 – 30 November 8.00pm Jazz and Live Music in the Crypt TJ Johnson and his Band Monday 25 November This swingin’, singin’ piano player and his top 1.00pm calibre band blur the boundaries of jazz, blues, FREE Lunchtime Concert country and gospel. Beethoven – Variations on ‘Bei Männern, Tickets: £15 £12 £8 welche Liebe fühlen’ Tickets on sale from 16 October Janáček – Pohádka Britten – Sonata for Cello in C

Ben Tarlton Cello Stephen Gutman Piano Representing Park Lane Group

Tuesday 26 November 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert TJ Johnson Programme and performers to be announced. Thursday 28 November Students from the Purcell School 1.00pm Representing the Purcell School FREE Great Sacred Music And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time

Marking the birthday of English poet, painter Tuesday 26 November and printmaker William Blake. 7.30pm Bach Brandenburg Concertos Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells by Candlelight St Martin’s Voices Andrew Earis Director Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Purcell – King Arthur Suite Telemann – Concerto for Recorder in C Thursday 28 November Vivaldi – Concerto for Cello in B minor 7.30pm Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 4 Handel Messiah by Candlelight The Feinstein Ensemble Handel – Messiah Miki Takahashi Violin Christopher Suckling Cello Belmont Ensemble of London Robin Bigwood Harpsichord English Chamber Choir Martin Feinstein Flute/Recorder/Director Elizabeth Weisberg Soprano Ciara Hendrick Mezzo-Soprano Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Ben Thapa Tenor Philip Tebb Bass Peter G Dyson Conductor

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10

9 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Friday 29 November Saturday 30 November 1.00pm 4.00 – 5.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Family Christmas Concert with Pianists of the World Series Audience Carols

Satie – Gnossienne No 5 Enjoy some wonderful festive music and sing Graham Fitkin – The Cone Gatherers along to favourite Christmas carols! Philip Glass – Dreaming Awake Philip Glass – Étude No 2, 6 and 20 London Musical Arts John Landor Conductor/Presenter Branka Parlić Piano Representing Serbia Tickets: £20 £15 £10 (adult) £16 £12 £8 (under 16)

Friday 29 November 7.30pm Saturday 30 November Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight 7.30pm Christmas Concert with Audience Carols Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor by Candlelight Mozart – Divertimento No 3 in F Pachelbel – Canon in D Handel – Overture from Music for the Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Royal Fireworks Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Corelli – Christmas Concerto Grosso in G minor Handel – Overture and Pastoral Symphony The Baroque Orchestra of London from Messiah Sarah Moffatt Violin Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Miki Takahashi Violin/Director Plus carols including Away in a Manger, Silent Tickets: £30 £27 £20 £15 £9 Night, The First Nowell, O Come All Ye Faithful.

London Musical Arts Orchestra Saturday 30 November John Landor Conductor 11.00am – 12.00pm Mini Maestro Family Concert: Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Peter and the Wolf

Come and enjoy a scintillating performance of two Russian tales with music: Peter and the Wolf and The Flaming Firebird and the Princess Vasilisa, recreated for the enjoyment of both young and old by Olga and Matthew.

Olga Jegunova Piano Matthew Crampton Narrator

Tickets: £18 £13 £8 (adult) £14 £10 £6 (under 16)

Mini Maestro participant www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 10 Sound of St Martin’s Israel in Egypt by Candlelight

On Tuesday 5 November St Martin’s Voices, the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields and Brandenburg Sinfonia perform Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt.

Israel in Egypt contains some of the most tremendously flexible instrument of expression. thrilling choral writing ever composed by Handel, with intense, vivid passages dramatising the Join us for what promises to be an memorable Biblical text. The libretto was prepared by evening at St Martin’s, and experience the plague, Charles Jennens, who also compiled the Biblical the rivers, the frogs, the flies, the lice and the texts for Handel’s Messiah. locusts through Handel’s dramatic choral and instrumental writing. The story is dramatic. An announcement is made that a new Pharaoh has come to the throne who does not look kindly on the Israelites. A series Sound of St Martin’s of plagues then fall on Egypt: the rivers turn to Handel’s Israel in Egypt by Candlelight blood; a plague of frogs affects the land; the Tuesday 5 November, 7.30pm Egyptian livestock get a sickness and die; blotches Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 and blisters break out on the skin of cattle and people; fl ies and lice swarm everywhere; locusts appear and destroy all the crops; hailstorms blight the country; a darkness descends; and, fi nally, the eldest born sons of all the Egyptians are struck down. Eventually, the Red Sea miraculously parts to let the Israelites cross in safety, but when the pursuing Egyptians try to cross, the waters engulf them and they are drowned.

Israel in Egypt was premiered at London’s King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, near St Martin’s, on 4 April 1739. Whilst the first audience was small, it was at its third performance, at the end of that month, in the presence of the Prince of Wales, that it finally gained success. The oratorio is different to Handel’s other works in terms of its range of choral writing, which was a shock to audiences at the time. His astonishing evocation of the plagues of flies, lice and locusts demonstrate his skilful use of the chorus as a

11 www.smitf.org Box Offi ce: 020 7766 1100 Nicholas McCarthy’s Piano Pilgrimage

Nicholas McCarthy returns to St Martin’s on Tuesday 12 November with his unique piano performance, with arrangements by Bartók, Strauss and Rachmaninov.

It’s an absolute pleasure to have you Finding repertoire for left-hand-alone perform here again. Out of the programme piano must be difficult – where do you of repertoire you are performing, which is find it and what is the history behind the the most challenging piece and why? arrangements?

I’m hugely excited to be coming back to I’ve always enjoyed searching for rare scores St Martin-in-the-Fields, I love the acoustic and have even had to get certain pieces put back of this wonderful church and the candlelit into print. I get to travel a lot performing around atmosphere really sets the mood beautifully. the world so I always try to look in book shops, Without a doubt the most challenging piece in music shops and archives and see if there are my programme is Brahms’s arrangement for any rare scores or pieces for left hand alone that left hand alone of Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor. I haven’t heard of before. It’s like hunting for Originally written by Bach for solo violin it is a treasure and a part of my job that I love. fifteen minute long tour de force that requires a huge amount of concentration. I also love the back story as to why this arrangement came to Your achievements are vast, but which are fruition. Clara Schumann was a great composer amongst your proudest? but also a hugely talented and highly successful concert pianist. After she injured her right It’s a difficult one as I’m very lucky that my hand, Brahms, who had a well-documented career has given me so many opportunities that I affection for Clara, came to the rescue and wouldn’t have ordinarily been able to experience. transcribed this great work for her and for the However, if I had to pick one I would say that left hand alone. being awarded an Honorary Membership of the Royal College of Music by HRH Prince of Wales was a very proud moment. I had dreamed for so long about attending the RCM to study and was ecstatic when I was offered a place. I enjoyed four fantastic years there but it was definitely made extra special by this acknowledgment in 2018 from our future king. It was a very special day indeed.

Piano Pilgrimage by Candlelight Tuesday 12 November, 7.30pm Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 12 Thursday 5 December 2 – 7 December 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music A Light in the Stable Monday 2 December With music from Alan Bullard’s Christmas 1.00pm Cantata A Light in the Stable. FREE Lunchtime Concert Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Constantin Silvestri – Excerpts from Suite No 3 St Martin’s Voices ‘Jeux d’Enfants’ Andrew Earis Director Liszt – Sonata for Piano in B minor

Gabriel Gîţan Piano Thursday 5 December Representing the Romanian Cultural Institute 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s A Christmas Celebration Tuesday 3 December 1.00pm Trad. (arr. Wood) – Ding Dong, Merrily on High FREE Lunchtime Concert Leontovich – Carol of the Bells Lauridsen – O Magnum Mysterium Schumann – Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1 Rutter – Candlelight Carol in A minor Chilcott – On Christmas Night Medtner – Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1

in B minor Plus carols for brass, organ and audience Rimsky-Korsakov – ‘Danse Orientale’ including Hark the Herald Angels Sing, God Rest from Scheherazade Ye Merry Gentlemen and O Come All Ye Faithful. Lucent Duo St Martin’s Chorus Brandenburg Brass Andrew Earis Conductor Wednesday 4 December Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 7.00pm The First Nowell: A Christmas Gala Evening at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Join us for a glittering revival of Vaughan Williams’ nativity play followed by a Christmas party with celebrity entertainment and charity auction. All money raised will support St Martin’s work changing lives through our building, music, ministry and support for homeless and vulnerable people.

Tickets: £150 (£75 benefits/ £75 donation), includes concert and afterparty. See page 20 for further details. St Martin’s Chorus

13 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Friday 6 December Saturday 7 December 1.00pm 4.00 – 5.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Carols for Shoppers

Performer and programme to be announced. Take a break from hectic Christmas shopping with carols and festive music in the beautiful Representing the Concordia Foundation setting of St Martin’s. Join our choir for traditional carols including Hark the Herald Angels Sing and O Come All Ye Faithful, and Friday 6 December listen to festive gems such as In the Bleak 7.30pm Midwinter and Away in a Manger. Sound of St Martin’s Bach Christmas Oratorio by Candlelight 1VOX Ivor Setterfield Conductor Bach – Christmas Oratorio (Parts I-III, VI) (performed in German) Tickets: £20 £15 £10

St Martin’s Voices St Martin’s Baroque Players Andrew Earis Conductor

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Christmas cards at St Martin’s

Saturday 7 December 7.30pm A Festival of Carols by Candlelight

Join 1VOX and their conductor, Ivor Setterfield, for a festive selection of favourite carols for choir, organ and audience.

1VOX Ivor Setterfield Conductor

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 St Martin’s Voices

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 14 Thursday 12 December 9 – 14 December 7.30pm The Glory of Christmas

Bach – ‘Christians be Joyful’ from Monday 9 December Christmas Oratorio 1.00pm Vivaldi – ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons FREE Lunchtime Concert Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Handel – Christmas Music from Messiah St Martin’s Voices perform a selection of baroque

vocal and choral works for Christmas, including Plus a selection of Christmas carols, readings music by Bach and Handel. and poetry. St Martin’s Voices Thames Chamber Orchestra Andrew Earis Conductor The Choir of Christ’s College Cambridge David Rowland Director Keith Marshall Conductor Tuesday 10 December 1.00pm Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 FREE Lunchtime Concert

Scarlatti – Sonata for Piano in A Friday 13 December Haydn – Sonata for Piano in C 1.00pm Debussy – La fille aux cheveux de lin FREE Lunchtime Concert Scriabin – Prelude No 10 in C sharp minor Debussy – Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest Julius Röntgen – Sonata for Violin and Piano in F sharp minor Niel du Preez Piano Ton de Leeuw – Sonatina for Violin and Piano Willem Kes – Characteristic Dances

Hannah Laurens Violin Tom McCoy Piano

Friday 13 December 7.30pm The Spirit of Christmas – the Annual Celebration Niel du Preez © Stefan Ferreira

Vivaldi – ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons Thursday 12 December Howard Blake – ‘Walking in the Air’ 1.00pm from The Snowman FREE Great Sacred Music Trad. – The Twelve Days of Christmas Glory, Glory, Glory to the New Born King Berlin – I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas

Christmas Spirituals including Follow That Star, Locrian Ensemble of London The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy and Go Tell It Southend Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs on the Mountain. Rita Manning Violin Justin Pearson Conductor Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Roger Humphrey Conductor St Martin’s Voices Andrew Earis Director Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10

15 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Saturday 14 December 4.00 – 5.00pm Sound of St Martin’s Festive Family Carols Great

Join St Martin’s Voices in this joyful celebration of family carols for Christmas. Carols for choir Sacred and audience include Away in a Manger, Once in Royal David’s City and Ding Dong Merrily on High as well as entertaining solos by the choir Music including The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy, The Twelve Days of Christmas and Jingle Bells. Back home and missing St Martin’s? Why Fun for all the family! not start your week with our Great Sacred Music podcasts? Each 10-minute podcast St Martin’s Voices features reflective words and sublime choral Andrew Earis Conductor music from Revd Dr Sam Wells and St Martin’s Voices. Make sure you don’t Tickets: £20 £15 £10 miss a single Great Sacred Music podcast by signing up for our e-newsletter from www.smitf.org or by subscribing Saturday 14 December on iTunes or Soundcloud. 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s And don’t just take our word for it. Here Carols for Christmas by Candlelight is what our subscribers said:

Trad. (arr. Willcocks) – Sussex Carol ‘A few moments of peace. A short Harold Darke – In the Bleak Midwinter introduction, then a piece of Berlioz – The Shepherd’s Farewell beautifully sung music. Simple.’ Franz Gruber (arr. Lindner) – Silent Night ‘A few minutes long, brightens Plus carols for brass, organ and audience up the day. What a lovely podcast including O Come All Ye Faithful, O Little Town – one hymn a week with a short of Bethlehem and Joy to the World! explanation. It’s been great to learn about hymns I knew and discover St Martin’s Voices ones I didn’t.’ Brandenburg Brass Andrew Earis Conductor

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Brandenburg Brass

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 16 Tuesday 17 December 16 – 20 December 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Embassy and Cultural Institute Series Monday 16 December Frederick Septimus Kelly (arr. Decroix) – Elegy, 1.00pm in Memoriam Rupert Brooke FREE Lunchtime Concert Arthur Bliss – Allegro con spirito from Music for Strings William Best – Fantasia on a Welsh March Elgar – Elegy for Strings Mozart – Fantasia in F Minor Vaughan Williams – English Folk Song Suite Bach – Trio Sonata No 5 in C Suk – Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale Vierne – Finale from Symphony No 1 ‘St. Wenceslas’ James Gough Organ St George Quintet Representing the Embassy of Flanders Monday 16 December 7.30pm Christmas Gala by Candlelight

Handel – Selections from Messiah Corelli – ‘Christmas’ Concerto Grosso in G minor Bach – Excerpts from Christmas Oratorio Vivaldi – ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons

Plus a selection of Christmas carols with orchestra, vocal soloists, organ and audience participation.

The Festive Orchestra of London Faye Newton Soprano

Ben Davies Bass St George Quintet Miki Takahashi Violin Andrew Earis Organ Wednesday 18 December Steven Devine Master of Ceremonies 6.30 – 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 A Christmas Celebration

Join St Martin’s Voices in this beautiful and

uplifting early evening celebration of Christmas.

Carols for choir and audience include O Little

Town of Bethlehem, Once in Royal David’s City

and Hark the Herald Angels Sing as well as solos

by the choir including In dulci jubilo, Coventry

Carol and O Holy Night.

St Martin’s Voices

Andrew Earis Conductor

Tickets: £20 £15 £10 The Festive Orchestra of London

17 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Thursday 19 December 1.00pm Friday 20 December FREE Great Sacred Music 7.30pm Five Lessons and Carols Sound of St Martin’s Christmas with the Academy A sequence of words and music in the run-up by Candlelight to Christmas, with carols specially selected by members of St Martin’s Voices. Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Corelli – Christmas Concerto Grosso St Martin’s Voices in G minor Andrew Earis Director Harold Darke – In the Bleak Midwinter Rutter – Nativity Carol Trad. (arr. Willcocks) – Quelle est cette Thursday 19 December odeur agréable? 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Plus carols for orchestra, organ and Handel Messiah by Candlelight audience including Hark The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful and Joy to Handel – Messiah the World!

St Martin’s Voices St Martin’s Voices Brandenburg Sinfonia Academy of St Martin in the Fields Andrew Earis Conductor Chorus Academy of St Martin in the Fields Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Andrew Earis Conductor

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 St Martin-in-the-Fields

Friday 20 December 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert

Programme to be announced.

Manor House String Quartet

Academy of St Martin in the Fields © Benjamin Ealovega

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 18 21 – 22 December Sunday 22 December 4.00 – 5.00pm Sound of St Martin’s Festive Family Carols Saturday 21 December 4.00 – 5.00pm Join St Martin’s Voices in this joyful Christmas with the English Chamber Choir celebration of family carols for Christmas. Carols for choir and audience include Away The acclaimed English Chamber Choir presents in a Manger, Once in Royal David’s City a seasonal feast of your favourite Christmas and Ding Dong Merrily on High as well as Carols for choir, organ and audience including entertaining solos by the choir including Once in Royal David’s City, Hark the Herald The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy, The Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, Ding Dong Twelve Days of Christmas and Jingle Bells. Merrily on High, Jingle Bells, In the Bleak Fun for all the family! Midwinter, Silent Night, White Christmas and many more. St Martin’s Voices Andrew Earis Conductor English Chamber Choir Guy Protheroe Conductor Tickets: £20 £15 £10 Tickets: £20 £15 £10

Sunday 22 December Saturday 21 December 6.30 – 7.30pm 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Handel Messiah by Candlelight A Christmas Celebration Handel – Messiah Join St Martin’s Voices in this beautiful and uplifting early evening celebration of Christmas. Belmont Ensemble of London Carols for choir and audience include O Little English Chamber Choir Town of Bethlehem, Once in Royal David’s City Elizabeth Weisberg Soprano and Hark the Herald Angels Sing as well as solos Ciara Hendrick Mezzo-Soprano by the choir including In dulci jubilo, Coventry Ben Thapa Tenor Carol and O Holy Night. Philip Tebb Bass Peter G Dyson Conductor St Martin’s Voices Andrew Earis Conductor Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10

Tickets: £20 £15 £10 St Martin’s Voices Belmont Ensemble of London

19 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 The First Nowell: A Christmas Gala Evening at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Wednesday 4 December, 7.00 – 10.00pm

During the 1950s, St Martin’s presented an annual nativity performance to raise money. In 1958, Ralph Vaughan Williams agreed to compose the music especially for St Martin’s.

Now rarely performed, this Christmas, St Martin’s will be reviving this tradition, with a new performance of the Vaughan Williams’ nativity, “The First Nowell”.

Written for an orchestra, choir and soloists, we are bringing together a group of special guest soloists, as well as our very own St Martin’s Voices and the world famous Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It promises to be a musical treat for Christmas.

Following the performance, guests will join us for a Christmas party in our magnificent Crypt to enjoy more celebrity entertainment, drinks and canapés and a silent auction.

All money raised on this spectacular evening will help St Martin’s continue its work, through its building, ministry and supporting people away from homelessness.

Tickets: £150 (£75 benefits/£75 donation), includes concert and after party

To book your ticket: www.stmartin-in-the- fields.org/whatson-event/the-first- nowell-a-christmas-gala-evening/

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 20 Monday 23 December 23 – 29 December 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s The Joys of Christmas Monday 23 December Rutter – Christmas Lullaby 1.00pm Tavener – The Lamb FREE Lunchtime Concert Jonathan Dove – Welcome All Wonders in One Sight Beethoven (arr. Scharwenka) – Symphony No 5 Matthew Martin – Adam Lay Ybounden Brahms – Selections from Hungarian Dances

Plus carols for brass, organ and audience Tessa Uys & Ben Schoeman Piano Duo including Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Representing the Royal Over-Seas League O Come All Ye Faithful and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. Monday 23 December Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields 4.00 – 5.00pm Brandenburg Brass Sound of St Martin’s Tom Williams Conductor Festive Family Carols Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Join St Martin’s Voices in this joyful celebration

of family carols for Christmas. Carols for choir and audience include Away in a Manger, Friday 27 December Once in Royal David’s City and Ding Dong 1.00pm Merrily on High as well as entertaining solos by FREE Lunchtime Concert the choir including The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Pianists of the World Series Boy, The Twelve Days of Christmas and Jingle Bells. Fun for all the family! Schumann – Fantasie in C Rachmaninov – Sonata for Piano No 2 St Martin’s Voices in B flat minor Andrew Earis Conductor Alessandro Conti Piano Tickets: £20 £15 £10 Representing Italy St Martin’s Voices Alessandro Conti

21 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Friday 27 December Saturday 28 December 6.00 – 7.00pm 7.30pm Beethoven Moonlight Sonata The Complete Brandenburg Concertos by Candlelight at Christmas

Beethoven – Sonata for Piano No 14 in C sharp Bach – Brandenburg Concertos No 1-6 minor ‘Moonlight’ Henselt – Ballade London Octave Chopin – Rondo à la mazur Lorraine McAslan Violin Liszt – Les Cloches de Genève Neil Brough Trumpet Liszt – Transcendental Étude No 12 in B flat William Bennett Flute minor ‘Chasse-neige’ Alun Darbyshire Oboe Dietrich Bethge Conductor Daniel Grimwood Piano Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Tickets: £20 £15 £10

Sunday 29 December Friday 27 December 6.30 – 7.30pm 7.45pm Sound of St Martin’s Viennese Christmas by Candlelight A Christmas Celebration

Strauss – ‘Overture’ from Die Fledermaus Join St Martin’s Voices in this uplifting hour-long Tchaikovsky – ‘The Garland Waltz’ celebration of the Christmas season. Carols for from The Sleeping Beauty choir and audience include Joy to the World, Schubert – Rondo for Violin and Strings in A We Three Kings and O Little Town of Bethlehem Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite as well as solos by the choir including For Unto Strauss – The Blue Danube Waltz Us a Child is Born and The Shepherd’s Farewell.

London Concertante St Martin’s Voices Katie Stillman Guest Director/Violin Andrew Earis Conductor

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10 Tickets: £20 £15 £10

Saturday 28 December Come and Sing: Christmas Choruses

10.15am Doors open 10.30am Workshop 12.45pm Performance

Join Andrew Earis and members of St Martin’s Voices to rehearse and perform a variety of Christmas choruses.

Andrew Earis Director

Tickets: £12 (including music hire)

Come and Sing www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 22 Tuesday 31 December 30 December – 1.00pm 1 January FREE Lunchtime Concert

Join the Bromley Boy Singers for their annual Christmas concert, featuring a beautiful selection Monday 30 December of seasonal music. 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert The Bromley Boy Singers

Jennifer Watson – Conformity William Albright – Sonata for Alto Saxophone Tuesday 31 December and Piano 3.30pm Jamie Sharp – New York New Year’s Eve Operetta Matinée Jon Cherry – Strange Pilgrimages A glittering array of favourite opera and operetta Emma McPhilemy Saxophone arias to start your New Year’s Eve celebrations, Philip Sharp Piano performed by the Merry Opera Company. Representing Concordia Foundation The Merry Opera Company

Monday 30 December Tickets: £32 £29 £22 £16 £9 6.30pm Handel Messiah by Candlelight

Handel – Messiah

Brandenburg Festival Chorus Brandenburg Sinfonia Robert Porter Conductor

Tickets: £39 (premium) £36 £30 £25 £18 £10

Monday 30 December 9.30 – 10.30pm The Merry Opera Company A Ceremony of Carols by Candlelight Wednesday 1 January Britten – A Ceremony of Carols 7.00pm New Year’s Day Extravaganza Rodolfus Choir Ralph Allwood Conductor Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Tickets: £20, £15, £10 Pachelbel – Canon in D Bach – Concerto for Oboe and Violin Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

The Festive Orchestra of London Katharina Spreckelsen Oboe Catherine Manson Violin/Director

Tickets: £36 £30 £25 £18 £10

23 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Discounts Group rates apply to parties of 16 or more General Information people. Discounts for evening concert tickets are currently only available when booking by Evening concerts telephone on 020 7766 1100 or in person.

Doors open 30 minutes before start Concessions of concert. Available to under 16s, full-time students, those over 60 and the unwaged when purchased Concerts usually last two hours unless in person (subject to availability). Children under stated otherwise, including an interval of 3 years will not be admitted. 20 minutes. Restricted mobility Interval drinks can be pre-ordered from Wheelchair access to the church and concerts is the Café in the Crypt. via a ramp on the north side of church. There is a lift between the crypt and church, and from the Admission is by ticket only. street to crypt level. Two tickets for the price of one are available for people with disabilities and their enablers (subject to availability). There are Lunchtime concerts four wheelchair spaces in church and in the crypt for Jazz and Live Music. Doors open at 12.30pm for a 1.00pm start.

Latecomers Lunchtime concerts are normally scheduled Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break for Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. during the performance.

All of our Lunchtime Concerts are free of Ticket refund and exchange charge – a suggested donation of £3.50 Tickets are non-refundable. However, tickets per person goes towards the work of may be exchanged up to 48 hours before the St Martin’s. performance. An administration charge

will apply. Tickets are not required.

Spaces to hire for rehearsals and events Jazz and Live Music In addition, St Martin’s also has a series of in the Crypt spaces for parties, receptions, conferences and meetings. The latest AV equipment is First set: 8.00-8.50pm installed in St Martin’s Hall, as well as a full Second set: 9.10-10.00pm range of menus available for catering. Email

[email protected] for further information. On Jazz Nights the Café is open to ticket holders only from 6.30pm.

Holders of unreserved tickets are advised to arrive early to secure a seat.

Food is served until 9.00pm and drinks until 10.00pm.

We reserve the right to alter programme details and substitute artists if necessary. All information correct at time of printing. St Martin’s Hall www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 24 Other things to do at St Martin’s

All profits from the Café, Shop and Brass Rubbing support the work of St Martin’s.

London’s Hidden Café

St Martin’s Café in the Crypt is London’s hidden café. Tucked away downstairs the Café in the Crypt features original Georgian architecture and is the perfect accompaniment to a visit to St Martin’s or one of the nearby theatres or galleries. The menu includes light breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. With meat, vegetarian and vegan options.

From 18 November – 5 January treat yourself to mince pies and mulled wine with Christmas dinner and all the trimmings on the menu from 2-24 December. Visit our website www.smitf.org/cafe for menus and opening hours. And follow us on our new social media channels.

SMITFCafe smitf_cafe | Winner of Luxlife Best London Community Café, 2019

Brass Rubbing

Using specialist paper, waxes, a choice of over 100 brasses and some help from the St Martin’s team you can create your own work of art. Visit www.smitf.org/brassrubbing for prices and opening hours.

25 www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Brass Rubbing

Using specialist paper, waxes, a choice of over 100 brasses and some help from the St Martin’s team you can create your own work of art. Visit www.smitf.org/brassrubbing for prices and opening hours.

Shop

The Shop at St Martin’s has unusual gifts, CDs and books for Christmas and all year round. From 5 October we open our seasonal Christmas Shop which is brimming with decorations, nativities and the best range of charity Christmas cards in Central London. Visit www.smitf.org/shop for opening hours or to make a purchase from our online shop.

www.smitf.org Box Office: 020 7766 1100 26 Your support is our future

St Martin’s is a church like no other. We change lives every day through our building, ministry and support for people on the edge of society.

We’re determined to continue supporting musicians, asylum seekers, homeless people and communities of different faiths. We want to bring joy to those who come to our church, no matter what the reason.

As a charity, we rely on people like you. Thank you for considering supporting our work. It really does mean we can change lives for good.

To give, please visit: www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/support-us

St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust [email protected]

Registered charity number 1110406

St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JH

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