What’s happening at St Martin-in-the-Fields January | February | March | April 2018

www.smitf.org Exhibitions

Monday 8 January – Wednesday 28 February exhibition. Discover installations from some of the Spring 2018 Great British Welcome, an exhibition from world’s top light artists in five key areas across the A Memorial for 30 Enterprising Years UNHCR and Panos Pictures city, each illuminated for five hours every evening. In the Crypt Outside in the Courtyard There’s a lot of ground to cover to view the myriad sparkling lights so we have thrown open the Café in the Courtyard throughout Lumiere London from 5.00-9.00pm for drinks and snacks. For further information visit www.lumierelondon.com

Monday 5 March – Sunday 29 April The Passing Show: Adoration Paintings of London by Ed Gray In the Foyer

‘Great British Welcome’ introduces the UK chapter of ‘No Stranger Place’, an exhibition of photographs and stories portraying refugees and their hosts Café in the Courtyard across Europe, developed by photographer Aubrey Wade with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. In recent years, many people across Europe have embraced compassion, hope and humanity by Welcome to St Martin’s opening their homes to refugees, helping to bridge St Martin’s is marking the 30th anniversary of our cultural divides and language barriers – even as business operations by erecting a memorial stone Easter this year falls on 1 April. It’s the hinge of the year: for six weeks before it we mark the disciplines of some governments erect obstacles. Wade recently Painter Ed Gray exhibits his paintings of everyday for former vicar Revd Geoffrey Brown. When Lent and the intensity of Holy Week: for seven weeks after it we mark the celebration of the resurrection. met and photographed some of the British hosts London life. Gray seeks out the spectacular in the Geoffrey Brown and colleagues established the For St Martin’s, highlights of this season include the Lent study evenings, which this year explore Ben whose generosity and care is helping to transform ordinary with his sketchbook to create layered enterprise at St Martin’s in 1987, they did it in a Quash’s book Abiding, which draws on fiction, film and art to explore what abiding means for our bodies, the lives of a few of those forced to flee, and the panoramas infused with London mythology and spirit of ‘Never waste a good crisis.’ They knew minds, relationships, communities, and spiritual lives. Our worship focuses on the services to mark Jesus’ exhibition offers visitors a personal insight into the grit of the urban experience. Inspired by his St Martin’s needed to take some fairly drastic steps Last Supper and crucifixion; this year I shall preach at our Three-Hour Passion service on Good Friday on their lives together. It also includes portraits from love of The National Gallery’s Renaissance to secure its ministry, mission and maintenance ‘A Cross in the Heart of God.’ Germany, Sweden, France and Austria. Adoration scenes these are celebratory hymns to costs but that became the pretext for creating an A cherished part of our annual musical calendar is the St Martin’s Chamber Music Competition which takes the passing city as the familiar is replaced and experiment in hope that sought to discover and place in March. This offers all the enjoyment of magnificent performance with the thrill of a prize that could Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 January remodeled. Gray’s paintings celebrate the model what healthy commercial life might look like. change the lives of the winners. Lumiere London multiplicity of life and unknowable lives lived What they saw in developing commercial Outside in the Café in the Courtyard and within this shifting modern metropolis. operations was not just an income stream, but an Spring starts early with the opening of the Café in the Courtyard on 26 March. And don’t forget our best- throughout London ‘…buzzing with jazz and the glorious accidental opportunity to make St Martin’s an example with kept secret. Delicious breakfast in the Café in the Crypt each weekday from 8.00am. Whatever you’re doing choreography of crowds’ political and economic significance to add to the at St Martin’s – sightseeing, worshiping, shopping or taking a rest – do make the most of the breadth of our The UK’s largest Robert Elms BBC London social and cultural reputation of its homeless and life by joining a free lunchtime concert, sampling our value-for-money food, or trying out a brass rubbing. festival of lights is Paper from classical music programmes. This memorial stone responsible sources We are delighted to welcome you into the heart of this vibrant community. returning to London ‘…a life affirming raucous celebration of the C115465C115465 this January – bigger indefatigable vitality of Londoners’ which will be erected in the spring celebrates the crucial role of Geoffrey Brown in making possible This publication was produced to ISO 14001-2004 Revd Dr Sam Wells, Vicar and better than before. Spitalfields Life Environmental Management Standards and 95% of the For four evenings in January Lumiere London these last 30 enterprising years and we strive to waste created during the process is recycled. The material build upon on his remarkable legacy. used includes vegetable oil inks, elemental chlorine-free turns the capital into a dazzling nocturnal art pulp and fibre from FSC® certified forests.

2 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 3 Worship at St Martin’s Weekly Worship Events and Courses

Sunday 7 January, 5.00pm Saturday 3 March, 10.30am Wednesdays at 6.30pm Sunday Theology Group Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story Epiphany Carols Time to Talk Bread for the World 10.00am Parish Eucharist A Service of Reflection for Those Affected 1.00pm Service in Mandarin by Suicide 2.15pm Service in Cantonese A 60-minute 5.00pm Choral Evensong sequence of words and music to offer 7.00pm Sacred Space st space, solidarity and (1 Sunday of the month)

opportunity to Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven: Central Predella Panel, Probably reflect and connect Monday by Fra Angelico © The National Gallery, London. Bought, 1860 for those affected by 8.30am Morning Prayer suicide, followed by Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story is a 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) a reception with resource to explore the Christian faith. Each session tea/coffee and an A weekly informal Eucharist on Wednesdays to 4.30pm Choral Evensong uses a fine art painting fromThe National Gallery’s With reflections by Revd Katherine Hedderly opportunity to link deepen the life of the St Martin’s community, through collection, along with a Biblical text and a and music by the Choir of St Martin-in-the- to organisations offering advice and support. prayer, music, word and reflection with the Choral Tuesday theological reflection, as a springboard for exploring these two questions: Fields. Followed by Sacred Space at 7.00pm. Scholars of St Martin’s. Followed by fellowship. 8.30am Morning Prayer Sunday 4 March, 10.00am • How can I deepen my faith in God? Sunday 28 January, 10.00am Thursdays at 1.00pm 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) Schools Service • What does it mean to follow Jesus today? Homelessness Sunday Great Sacred Music 6.00pm Evening Prayer (DSC) Our annual schools service celebrating the life and All are welcome. 12.00noon-1.00pm in the Austen witness of the two schools founded at St Martin’s Revd Dr Sam Wells explores through word and Wednesday Williams Room on the following Sundays: 21 in the seventeenth century and now based south of song, reading and prayer, the great classical music of January, 18 February, 18 March, 8 April. the river, Archbishop Tenison’s School, our religious heritage with St Martin’s Voices. 8.30am Morning Prayer Kennington, and St Martin-in-the-Fields High See music pages for details. 1.00pm Choral Eucharist Monday 12 February, 7.00-9.00pm School for Girls, Tulse Hill. 6.30pm Bread For the World Faith in the Questions Sundays at 7.00pm Saturday 17 March, 11.00am Sacred Space Thursday Each time a different member of our community Archbishop Romero Service 7 January, 4 February, 4 March 8.30am Morning Prayer takes the chair and raises questions about truth, faith and justice. Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin’s 1.00pm Great Sacred Music and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s 6.00pm Evening Prayer (DSC) College, London, responds, explaining the theological reasoning of his answers, before the Friday whole group engages with the questions 8.30am Morning Prayer themselves. From 12.00noon-1.00pm in the An evening incorporating a performance of a new Austen Williams Room on the following Sundays: 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) one-act play, Counting the Clouds, followed by a 7 January, 4 February, 4 March, 22 April. conversation with leading scientists. The play, 6.00pm Evening Prayer (DSC) performed by Riding Lights, tells the story of a scientist who’s a Christian, wrestling with the Saturday structure of the universe, when his personal life is 9.00am Morning Prayer shaken to the core. The conversation that follows Preacher Revd Dr Sam Wells. The service is gives audience members a chance to ask their own followed at 12noon by the opportunity to hear On the first Sunday of the month at 7.00pm we invite St Martin-in-the-Fields hosts this ecumenical you to Sacred Space, a time of silence, reflection, As well as our regular daily service times, the Dick questions of scientific thinkers and practitioners. Pam Orchard, Director of The Connection at th service to mark the 38 anniversary of the Free and open to all. Tickets via Eventbrite. St Martin’s, speak about their work helping music and prayer to draw close to God and experience Sheppard Chapel (DSC), at the far end of the lower martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero. www.faithinthequestions.eventbrite.co.uk homeless people in London. stillness and peace at the heart of this city. With the crypt, is available for prayer throughout the week. Led by Revd Richard Carter. prayers of the Taizé community.

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Lent Study Course for 2018 Wednesday 14 February – Ash Wednesday 10.00am Eucharist Friday 30 March Good Friday 8.30am Said Holy Communion with With dramatised reading of the 8.30am Morning Prayer Abiding: by Ben Quash Passion Gospel. “Abide in me as I abide in you… As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love” Imposition of Ashes 10.00am Good Friday Service for All Ages 1.00pm Service in Mandarin Wednesdays in Lent: 21, 28 February; 7, 14, 21, 28 March 1.00pm Choral Eucharist with Imposition 12noon- The Three Hours of Ashes 2.15pm Service in Cantonese 3.00pm A Cross in the Heart of God from the perseverance. Drawing on the wisdom and imagery Preacher: Revd Richard Carter 5.00pm From Creation to Salvation Foundation of the World of modern fiction, art and film, as well as key 6.30pm Sung Eucharist with Imposition A powerful service of readings and music Revd Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin- figures in the classical Christian and spiritual of Ashes as we enter into Holy Week, telling the in-the-Fields is the preacher in this service tradition, Quash skilfully and creatively explores Preacher: Revd Richard Carter story of salvation, with the Choir of of reflections on the passion of Christ. With the implications that ‘abiding in God’s love’ has for St Martin-in-the-Fields. the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields. our bodies, our minds, our relationships and Sunday 11 March 12noon The Passion of Jesus, Trafalgar Square communities, our own spiritual lives, and our Monday 26 March Holy Week 7.00pm Compline for Lent and 3.15pm world. Rowan Williams writes ‘Ben Quash has 8.30am Morning Prayer succeeded in holding together the uneasy and often 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) bewildering plurality of the modern heart or mind with the depths of the tradition he inherits, both the 4.30pm Choral Evensong Anglican inheritance and the wider legacy of early 6.00pm Alternative Stations of the Cross and medieval Christian thought and prayer’. It is a book which will lead to deep reflection about how Tuesday 27 March Holy Week we embody those traditions within our own faith The three great days, beginning on the evening of 8.30am Morning Prayer A free open air play presented by a cast from and search for a deeper sense of our own Maundy Thursday, and stretching across Good 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) the Wintershall Estate at 12noon and 3.15pm. centredness in God’s love. This wise and valuable Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Day, are the hub A special service of Compline for Lent, book will form the basis of our study. of the Christian year. We see the worst of humanity 6.00pm Meditation on the Cross (DSC and Saturday 31 March Holy Saturday including Tallis’ The Lamentations of Lightwell) Our Lent Study will begin on Wednesday 21 in Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, Peter’s denial and the Jeremiah, sung by the Choir of 9.00am Morning Prayer chief priests’ conniving. But we see the very best of February, join us at 6.30pm in church for the St Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Wednesday 28 March Holy Week informal Eucharist, followed by a simple Lenten God, in Jesus’ selfless, longsuffering, limitless love. Sunday 1 April Easter Day Tom Williams. 8.30am Morning Prayer supper and then our study groups. We come back over and again to these three days 5.30am The Easter Vigil and the First because they show us the truth about ourselves 1.00pm Choral Eucharist The cost of the course is £15 which includes a Sunday 25 March – Palm Sunday Eucharist of Easter and about God, and the joy of forgiveness and copy of Ben Quash’s book (or £8 if you already have 9.45am Palm Sunday Procession 6.30pm Bread for the World in Holy Week eternal life. They are the centre not just of faith – 10.00am Easter Eucharist the book). but of everything. Thursday 29 March Maundy Thursday The Lent Study takes place from 6.30-8.45pm on We walk together through Holy Week, keeping Wednesdays 21, 28 February, 7, 14, 21, 8.30am Morning Prayer For this year’s Lent Course we will be using Ben Jesus’ company in his controversies in Jerusalem 28 March 2018. 1.00pm Great Sacred Music Quash’s book Abiding as a resource for our study, and in his Last Supper, arrest and trial. We recall prayer and reflection. Ben Quash is Professor of Download an application form from our website his washing of the disciples’ feet, his lonely walk to 6.30pm Maundy Thursday Liturgy Christianity and the Arts at Kings College London. www.smitf.org or pick up a form in church. the cross and agonising death. We stay quiet to His book Abiding was chosen by Rowan Williams Further information is available from Revd Richard ponder his time in the tomb. And then at dawn on as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book in Carter. All are welcome. Easter morning, and again later that day, we 2013. Ben Quash will be joining us for one of these explode with effervescent exaltation at the wonder Preacher: Revd Dr Sam Wells sessions to introduce his theme and to answer of his resurrection. With the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields our questions. It takes 50 days to realise the significance of what We meet at the corner of St James’s Park 1.00pm Service in Mandarin ‘Abiding’ is not a word we use much in ordinary has happened. The Easter season is the springtime near Admiralty Arch. Join the Choir of conversation. But it is also difficult to find a good of the year, and the period of hope, delight, and St Martin-in-the-Fields and the 2.15pm Service in Cantonese substitute. It means staying with, it implies celebration. Now is eternal life, if risen with Christ Salvation Army Band for a procession 5.00pm Choral Evensong commitment, solidarity, presence and with palms, led by a donkey, into church. With the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields we stand. Preacher: Revd Katherine Hedderly

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At St Martin’s we foster both humble faith and Special offers rigorous enquiry, logic and creativity. Albert • Enjoy a pre-concert two course dinner with glass Einstein said ‘After a certain high level of technical of house wine or beer £16.95. skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity and form. The greatest • Pre-book concert interval drinks and save 20%. scientists are artists as well.’ Einstein magnet • Start every Monday-Saturday with traditional Come down to the Shop at St Martin’s to explore a £2.99 English breakfast for £7.45. thought-provoking collection of books as well as a playful selection of games and gifts.

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Café in the Crypt Opening Times Shop and Brass Rubbing Opening Times Monday and Tuesday 8.00am – 8.00pm Monday and Tuesday 10.00am – 7.00pm Wednesday 8.00am – 10.30pm Books £6.99 and £1.00 Wednesday 10.00am – 7.45pm (Jazz Night ticket holders only after 6.30pm) Thursday – Saturday 10.00am – 8.45pm Thursday and Friday 8.00am – 9.00pm Sunday 11.00am – 6.00pm Saturday 9.00am – 9.00pm Sunday 11.00am – 6.00pm Holy Week and Easter Opening Times Holy Week and Easter Opening Times Thursday 29 March Maundy Thursday 10.00am – 6.00pm Friday 30 March Good Friday 11.00am – 8.45pm Thursday 29 March Maundy Thursday 8.00am – 6.00pm Inquizitive game Saturday 31 March Holy Saturday 10.00am – 8.00pm Friday 30 March Good Friday 10.00am – 9.00pm £6.50 Sunday 1 April Easter Day 11.00am – 6.00pm Saturday 31 March Holy Saturday 9.00am – 9.00pm Monday 2 April Easter Monday 11.00am – 7.00pm Sunday 1 April Easter Day 11.00am – 6.00pm Monday 2 April Easter Monday 11.00am – 9.00pm Last brass rubbing takes place one hour before the Shop closes.

8 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 9 Thursday 4 January Monday 8 January Sound of St Martin’s 7.30pm Vivaldi by Candlelight 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Vivaldi – Concerto for Flute in D Bach – Prelude and Fugue in D Friday 5 January, 7.30pm Corelli – Christmas Concerto Bach – Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her Vivaldi – ‘Winter’ from the Four Seasons Bach – Trio Sonata No 1 in E flat Vivaldi – Concerto in B minor for Four Violins Bach – Helft mir Gottes Güte preisen Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 4 Bach – In dir ist freude London Octave Greg Morris Organ William Bennett Flute 7.30pm Arab Christmas – Exploring the early Unji Chung Flute Arab Christian Chants Lorraine McAslan Violin Dietrich Bethge Director Experience the very rare opportunity to hear chants from the Aramaic/Syriac, Coptic, Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Byzantine, traditions, harking back to the time Friday 5 January of Queen Zanubia’s reign of Palmyra; this concert illuminates the earliest roots of 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Christianity and celebrates the diverse musical The Sound of St Martin’s is our choral A recital of operatic arias and duets by traditions of the ancient Middle Eastern world. concert series that combines our four composers including Mozart, Donizetti, Tickets: £15 (unreserved) resident choral ensembles with the and Tchaikovsky. music that inspires this church. It is Loretta Hopkins Soprano Tuesday 9 January our way of celebrating the life of this David Fletcher Bass 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert unique institution; by uniting regular Adam Johnson Piano Programme and performer to be announced. inventive programming with the talents of our choirs. 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Representing Park Lane Group A Night at the Opera On Friday 5 January, join St Martin’s Wednesday 10 January An evening of popular arias and choruses Soloists for an evening of popular from great operas. The programme includes 8.00pm The Fallen Heroes arias and choruses from great well-loved arias by Mozart, Puccini and Bizet. operas, featuring works by Mozart, Puccini and Bizet. This evening features soloists Beatrice Acland, Concerts, Choral Services and Jazz at St Martin’s Helen Stanley, Tom Smith and Monday 1 January Tuesday 2 January Emyr Wyn Davies, with pianist 7.00pm New Year’s Day Extravaganza 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Ella O’Neill. www.facebook.com/stmartininthefields Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Rachmaninov – Piano trio No 1 ‘Elegiaque’ Other events in the Sound of Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Mendelssohn – Piano trio in D minor St Martin’s include: Beatrice Acland, Soprano Beatrice Acland, Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D Jamal Aliyev, Hyeonjin Cho and Bluesy jazz and ska rooted in the rhythms of Bach – Concerto for Oboe and Violin Salih Can Geyrek St Martin’s Soloists Friday 2 February, 7.30pm New Orleans. Mozart Requiem by Candlelight @smitf_london Vivaldi – Four Seasons Representing the Concordia Foundation Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £15 £9 Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Saturday 24 February, On sale six weeks prior to the event. Thursday 4 January Saturday 6 January 6.00-7.00pm 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight Thursday 11 January Ave Maria – Choral Music The Three Kings Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music by Candlelight Marking Epiphany, with music including Purcell – Chaconne Deep River Saturday 24 February, 8.00pm Jonathan Dove’s The Three Kings and works Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ Spirituals marking the Baptism of Christ, Handel Messiah by Candlelight by Cornelius and Howells. Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin No 6 in G minor including Moses Hogan’s arrangement of I ‘La stravaganza’ Friday 2 March, 7.30pm Catherine Manson Catherine Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells stood on the River of Jordan and Dona nobis Vivaldi Four Seasons St Martin’s Voices Vivaldi – Four Seasons pacem by David Fanshawe. Festive Orchestra of London by Candlelight Please note the following listings contain Andrew Earis Director Trafalgar Sinfonia Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells highlights. For details of every piece for Katharina Spreckelsen Oboe Richard Milone Violin Catherine Manson Director/Violin St Martin’s Voices each concert visit Ivor Setterfield Conductor Andrew Earis Director www.smitf.org/music/concerts Tickets: £29 £25 £22 £16 £9 Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 Great Sacred Music is FREE and all are welcome.

10 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Telephone 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 11 Lunchtime Concerts Thursday 11 January Saturday 13 January Thursday 18 January Saturday 20 January Jazz and Live Music 7.30pm Mozart and Moonlight by Candlelight 7.30pm Vivaldi – Four Seasons by Candlelight 7.30pm Vivaldi Concertos by Candlelight 7.30pm Mozart Requiem by Candlelight at St Martin’s Beethoven – Sonata in C sharp minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor Mozart – Requiem in the Crypt ‘Moonlight’ Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor Vivaldi – La Follia Mozart – Ave verum corpus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Vivaldi – ‘Summer’ from the Four Seasons Handel – Zadok the Priest Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No 3 Pachelbel – Canon Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins and Cello Handel – Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah January Mozart – Divertimento in D Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ in D minor Handel – Selected Arias and Choruses Mozart – Concerto for Piano No 14 in E flat Belmont Ensemble of London Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Belmont Ensemble of London Ruth Rogers Violin English Chamber Choir Peter Dyson Conductor Elizabeth Weisberg Soprano Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 Ciara Hendrick Mezzo soprano Ivor Setterfield Countertenor Monday 15 January Peter Davoren Tenor 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Philip Tebb Bass Peter Dyson Conductor Programme to be announced. Guards Wind Quintet Tickets: £29 £25 £22 £16 £9 Monday 22 January Tuesday 16 January Heads South 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Wednesday 10 January, 8.00pm Healey Willan – Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One Rossini – Largo al factotum

London Concertante London R Strauss – Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen Viktor Korotich Victoria – O magnum mysterium The Fallen Heroes Trad Ukranian – Oh, ti divchino Palestrina – Sicut cervus London Concertante Laid back London grooves inspired by

Belmont Ensemble of London Mascagni – Quelle è una strada The UK’s oldest free Lunchtime Eriks Esenvalds – Only in Sleep Agata Darashakite Violin the rhythms of the Big Easy. Concert Series has been entertaining Belmont Ensemble of London Rutter – Sing a Song of Sixpence Alessandro Ruisi Violin Trad Russian – Ah, Nastasia audiences from around the world for Viktor Korotich Baritone Costas Fotopoulos Piano Drake Chamber Choir Tickets: £28 £24 £19 £15 £9 Wednesday 17 January, 8.00pm over 65 years. The series is a platform Peter Dyson Conductor St Martin’s Embassy and Cultural Institute Series Heads South for emerging and internationally Tuesday 23 January Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Friday 19 January recognised performers to make their 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Jazz standards and original melodies Wednesday 17 January 1.00pm Free Lunchtime Concert mark in the centre of London’s infused with a spicy Latin vibe. Friday 12 January 8.00pm Heads South Programme to be announced. classical music scene. Chopin – Mazurkas Op 6 Andrei Gologan Piano 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Chopin – Waltzes Op 70 Wednesday 24 January, 8.00pm Representing the Romanian Cultural Institute The Lunchtime Concert Series works Chabrier – España Chopin – Mazurkas Op 50 The Silver Ghosts alongside key partners including Saint-Saëns – Danse macabre Chopin – Tarantella Op 43 A sentimental journey back to the big London’s music colleges and 7.30pm Mozart Symphony No 40 by Candlelight Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte Chopin – Mazurkas Op 68 band swing of the 20s, 30s and 40s. conservatoires, and organisations such Bruno Vlahek – Variations on a Croatian Anna Geniushene Piano Stravinsky – Dances concertantes Haydn – Concerto for Cello No 1 in C as the Concordia Foundation, Park folk theme Representing the Royal Academy of Music Wednesday 31 January, 8.00pm Lane Group and the Royal Over-Seas Mozart – Symphony No 40 in G minor Albéniz – Pavana-Capricho Miss Hoodoo and the Delta Boys League to discover, nurture and de Falla – Spanish Dance from ‘La vida breve’ 7.30pm Bach Brandenburg Concertos Corinthian Chamber Orchestra promote emerging talent. Piazzolla – Libertango Lively Latin favourites and original melodies by Candlelight Richard Birchall Cello Soul-laden vocals, raucous horns and a Michael Seal Conductor tight rhythm section. Highlights include baritone Viktor D&B Duo performed in a sultry Cuban style. Bach – Brandenburg Concertos Nos 3, Tickets: £22 £18 £14 Korotich on Monday 22 January Representing the Iberian and Latin American Music Society Tickets: £15 £12 £8 4 and 5 Please note Jazz Nights go on sale performing works by Rossini and On sale six weeks prior to the event. Vivaldi – ‘Summer’ from the Four Seasons Wednesday 24 January six weeks prior to the event. Strauss alongside traditional Ukranian 7.30pm Bach Violin Concertos by Candlelight Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Thursday 18 January and Russian folk songs, and Paul Bach – Concerto for Violin in E and A minor Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ 8.00pm The Silver Ghosts Higgs (trumpet) on Tuesday 10 April. Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Pachelbel – Canon in D This seven-piece swing ensemble evokes the Bach – Concerto for Violin in A minor Dona nobis pacem Belmont Ensemble of London hot, breathless and high-spirited dance gigs of All lunchtime concerts begin at 1.00pm Handel – Larghetto Music from around the Anglican communion Helen Rogers Harpsichord the 1920s, 30s and 40s. and are free to attend with a suggested marking the start of the Week of Prayer for Purcell – Rondeau from Abdelazer Sarah De Bats Flute Tickets: £15 £12 £8 donation of £3.50. Christian Unity. London Musical Arts Ensemble Helen Davies Violin On sale six weeks prior to the event. John Landor Conductor Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Peter Dyson Conductor Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 St Martin’s Voices Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £13 £9 Andrew Earis Director

12 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 13 Brandenburg Thursday 25 January Friday 26 January Monday 29 January Wednesday 31 January Moonlight Sonata 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 7.30pm Bach, Handel, Vivaldi by Candlelight 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 8.00pm Miss Hoodoo and the Delta Boys Choral Festival The Road to Damascus Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia by Candlelight January – May Words and music to mark Holocaust Vivaldi – Concert for Violin No 3 in G Brahms – Four Songs for Female voices, Two Warren Mailley-Smith Memorial Day, including Goodall’s In ‘La stravaganza’ Horns and Harp memoriam Anne Frank and Messiaen’s O Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ Purcell School Chamber Choir Tuesday 30 January, 7.30pm sacrum convivium. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 Edward Longstaff Conductor Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor St Martin’s Voices 6.30pm FREE Great Sacred Choral Classics Andrew Earis Director Mozart Mass in C minor Exploring Mozart’s rousing choral work, the 7.00pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Mass in C minor. Vivaldi Gloria by Candlelight Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Vivaldi – Gloria St Martin’s Chorus Other works to be announced. Andrew Earis Director Brandenburg Festival Chorus Brandenburg Sinfonia Tuesday 30 January Brandenburg Sinfonia Robert Porter Conductor 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Having grown from a handful of Tickets: £29 (premium) £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Bartók – Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm concerts in 2010, the Brandenburg from Mikrokosmos 9.30-10.30pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Choral Festival is now one of the Paul Constantinescu – Cântec Allegri Miserere by Candlelight largest and most important choral Trad – Dobrogean dance: Toccata festivals in the country with more than Allegri – Miserere, mei deus Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 5 in E minor

Tallis – Missa Puer natus est nobis Ivor Setterfield Mephisto – Waltz No 1 100 performances across London, with Authentic soulful blues inspired by Etta Whitacre – Sleep St Martin’s at the geographical, artistic Trafalgar Sinfonia James, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. Vivamus and spiritual heart of the festival. Richard Milone Violin Rufus Frowde Conductor Tickets: £15 £12 £8 “The diversity of repertoire and range Ivor Setterfield Conductor On sale six weeks prior to the event. Tickets: £14 (unreserved) of performers in the Brandenburg Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Series, year on year, is extraordinary, Thursday 1 February and it is my great honour to be a part Friday 26 January Saturday 27 January 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music of this creative and inspirational 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 4.30pm Mini Maestro Family Concert: Candlemas family that thrives at the heart of Schubert – Impromptu in A flat Autumn and Winter from A celebration of Candlemas, including Cecilia Warren Mailley-Smith London’s vibrant music scene.” Schubert – Impromptu in B flat Vivaldi Four Seasons McDowall’s Candlemas and Eric Whitacre’s Eric Whitacre Schubert arr Liszt – Gretchen am Spinnade Come on an exciting journey through falling Lux aurumque. Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith Artistic Patron of the Brandenburg Schubert arr Liszt – Isolde’s Liebestod leaves and drifting snow. There are parties Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells returns to St Martin-in-the-Fields for Choral Festival 2017 Liszt – Légende No 2: St François de Paule and horse-riding in Autumn, fun on the ice St Martin’s Voices another evening of virtuosic piano marchant sure les flots The New Year begins with two and warming up by the fire-side in Winter. Andrew Earis Director mastery with a programme including performances on Thursday 25 January. London Musical Arts Ensemble Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, Liszt’s Brandenburg Festival Chorus and John Landor Presenter/Director Florian Mitrea Piano 7.30pm Baroque Extravaganza by Candlelight Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 and Brandenburg Sinfonia will join Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (under 16) Representing Making Music Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. forces in Vivaldi’s Gloria at 7.00pm, Vivaldi – Concerto for Flute in A minor and at 9.30pm Vivamus will perform 7.30pm Moonlight Sonata by Candlelight The programme also features 7.30pm Four Seasons by Candlelight Bach – Selection from Orchestral Suite No 2 Rachmaninov’s famous Prelude in C Allegri’s beautiful Miserere. Beethoven – Sonata in C sharp minor Bach – Air and Dances from Suite No 3 Handel – Water Music Suite in G sharp minor, written when the ‘Moonlight’ Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Vivaldi – Concerto for Cello in B minor composer was just 19. Not only has it Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Purcell – Chaconne Feinstein Ensemble become a firm favourite with concert Debussy – Clair de lune Corelli – Christmas Concerto Martin Feinstein Flute/Recorder/Director audiences since its first performance in Rachmaninov – Prelude in C sharp minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Catherine Manson Violin 1892, it was also a favourite of Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue Elisa D’Aruria Piano (Italy) London Musical Arts Ensemble Christopher Suckling Cello Rachmaninov himself. Warren Mailley-Smith Piano Robin Bigwood Harpsichord Pianists of the World Series John Landor Conductor Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 Tickets: £20 £16 £13 Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9

14 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 15 Great Sacred Music Friday 2 February Monday 5 February Thursday 8 February Friday 9 February Jazz and Live Music 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 9.30-10.30pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Solfa Carlisle – Silver Tree Fanfare Rachmaninov – Sonata for Cello and Piano I would Live in your Love Allegri Miserere by Candlelight in the Crypt Sibelius – Andante Festivo in G minor Anticipating Valentine’s Day next week, Allegri – Miserere mei, deus Dan Locklair – Illumination from Trumpets Tamesis Duo choral settings of music on the theme of love, Other works to be announced. of Light Representing the Concordia Foundation including I would live in your love by St Joyful Company of Singers February Bach – In dir ist freude Martin’s Composition Fellow Nils Greenhow. Peter Broadbent Conductor 6.30pm FREE Great Sacred Choral Classics Petr Eben – Okna (Windows) Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Tickets: £14 (unreserved) Illumina Duo Bach Mass in B minor St Martin’s Voices Ellie Lovegrove Trumpet Movements from Bach’s monumental choral Andrew Earis Director Saturday 10 February Richard Moore Organ work, the Mass in B minor. 4.30pm Mini Maestro Family Concert: 7.30pm Bach, Vivaldi and Handel by Candlelight Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells A Feast of Handel 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 There are lots of gems to enjoy in this feast of Mozart Requiem by Candlelight Andrew Earis Director Bach – Concerto for Flute in A Handel: vivacious violins, a champion cello Haydn — Nelson Mass Vivaldi – ‘Summer’ from the Four Seasons and a taste of the great Messiah. Mozart — Requiem Tuesday 6 February Vivaldi – Concerto Flute in A minor St Martin’s Voices London Musical Arts Ensemble St Martin’s Voices 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Handel – Water Music Suite in G John Landor Presenter/Director Every Thursday at 1.00pm, Brandenburg Sinfonia Scarlatti arr Granados – Sonata No 1 in G Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (under 16) The Red Stripe Band St Martin’s Voices and Revd Dr Andrew Earis Conductor Scarlatti arr Granados – Sonata No 21 in Sam Wells present Great Sacred Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £15 £9 D minor 7.30pm Mozart and Handel by Candlelight Wednesday 7 February, 8.00pm Music, our popular 35-minute Bach – French Suite No 2 in C minor exploration of the great music of our Saturday 3 February Liszt – Légende No 2: St François de Paule Handel – Overture from Messiah The Red Stripe Band Handel – Air from Water Music religious heritage. Each Great Sacred 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight marchant sur les flots An upbeat blend of jivin’ rhythms, Music is designed to speak to head, Mozart – Divertimento in D Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Maria Inês Costa Piano infectious energy and perfect heart and soul, and programmes range Pachelbel – Canon in D Mozart – Divertimento No 3 in F Representing the Royal College of Music comedy timing. from Christian festivals to historical Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D figures, from Biblical themes to 7.30pm Coronation Anthems by Candlelight Wednesday 14 February, 8.00pm

Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor Feinstein Ensemble composers of note. Vivaldi – Four Seasons Handel – Zadok the Priest Katie Bradley Handel – The King Shall Rejoice Feinstein Ensemble Great Sacred Music is free to attend A candlelit Valentine’s treat with Purcell – I was Glad Martin Feinstein Flute/Director with donations taken at the end. luscious singing and a bluesy, Purcell – O God, thou art my God Miki Takahashi Violin Highlights this season include: soulful sound. Purcell – Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei Robin Bigwood Harpsichord Thursday 4 January Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Wednesday 21 February, 8.00pm The Three Kings Marking Epiphany, including Jonathan Friday 9 February TJ Johnson and his Band Dove’s The Three Kings. 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Johnson’s jazz piano and vocals are unsurpassed on the London Rubbra – Sonata for Oboe and Piano Thursday 15 February music scene. Mozart’s Requiem Clara Schumann – Three Romances Brahms – Intermezzo in B flat minor Movements from Mozart’s famous Nonsuch Singers Wednesday 28 February, 8.00pm choral work. Saint-Saëns – Sonata for Oboe and Piano Nonsuch Singers Nicola Hands Oboe The Fabulations Thursday 15 March Richard Pearce Organ Jonathan Pease Piano A fabulational night out filled with The Wilderness Tom Bullard Conductor dance-floor filling hits. In the journey of Lent, we explore Tickets: £22 £18 £14 7.00pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Biblical wanderings in the desert, Fauré Requiem by Candlelight Please note Jazz Nights go on sale with music including S S Wesley’s Wednesday 7 February Fauré – Requiem six weeks prior to the event.

The Wilderness. Takahashi Miki 8.00pm The Red Stripe Band Other works to be announced.

Thursday 5 April Festive Orchestra of London Raucous rhythms, toe-tapping tunes and Vivace Chorus Landor John Handel’s Messiah Catherine Manson Violin/Director upbeat boogie-woogie. Jeremy Backhouse Conductor London Musical Arts Ensemble Miki Takahashi Violin A celebration for Easter, including Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Tickets: £30 (premium) £26 £22 £18 £13 £9 John Landor Conductor choruses from Handel’s Messiah. Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 On sale six weeks prior to the event. Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9

16 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 17 Mini Maestro Monday 12 February Thursday 15 February Saturday 17 February Tuesday 20 February Sounds from the Screen 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 6.00-7.00pm Bach, Bruckner and Brahms 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert Saturday 27 January Vivaldi – Concerto in B minor for Mozart Requiem by Candlelight Programme and performer to be announced. Thursday 22 February, 7.30pm Saturday 10 February Four Violins Movements from Mozart’s famous Bach – Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden St Martin’s Embassy and Cultural Institute Series Saturday 17 March Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor choral work. Brahms – Excerpts from Ein Deutches Requiem 4.30-5.30pm Josef Suk – Serenade for Strings Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Bruckner – Ave Maria Wednesday 21 February Youth Music Centre’s Chamber Orchestra St Martin’s Voices Bruckner – Os justi 8.00pm TJ Johnson and his Band Representing the Youth Music Centre Andrew Earis Director Schoenberg – Friede auf Erden New London Singers Tuesday 13 February 7.30pm Mozart by Candlelight Ivor Setterfield Conductor 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Mozart – Overture from the Marriage Tickets: £15 (unreserved) A selection of music based on the theme of of Figaro Valentine’s Day, including songs and arias Mozart – Concerto for Piano No 21 8.00pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight by Handel, Britten, Bellini, Grieg, Sibelius ‘Elvira Madigan’ Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins and Lehar. Mozart – Symphony No 40 in G minor Corelli – Concerto Grosso Tom Smith Tenor Locrian Ensemble Pachelbel – Canon in D John Lenehan Piano Representing the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Parry – Suite for Strings Rimma Sushanskaya Conductor Vivaldi – Four Seasons 7.30pm Moonlight Sonata for Valentine’s Eve Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Inspired by Ray Charles, Dr John and Ben Palmer by Candlelight Johnny Cash but with a unique voice and The Covent Garden Sinfonia, with The Mini Maestro concert series was Friday 16 February style of his own. started in 2008 by John Landor, Tchaikovsky – Andante Maestoso from conductor Ben Palmer, has 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Director of London Musical Arts, The Nutcracker established a reputation as one of the On sale six weeks prior to the event. building on his 10-year history of family Beethoven – Sonata for Piano in C sharp Programme to be announced. most diverse and versatile orchestras minor ‘Moonlight’ Embassy of Lithuania in London. Resident at the famous concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Thursday 22 February Chopin – Prelude in D flat ‘Raindrop’ Actors' Church, St Paul's in Covent These concerts are a fantastic way to Liszt – Liebestraum 7.30pm Mozart Requiem by Candlelight 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Garden, the orchestra performs introduce children to classical music, Liszt – Wedding March Mozart – Laudate dominum Blest be the God of Love regularly at London's leading concert teaching them through creativity, Mozart – Symphony No 39 in E flat An exploration of the poetry of metaphysical venues, including Southbank Centre's storytelling and fun games to Mozart – Ave verum corpus poet George Herbert on the anniversary of his Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth understand and enjoy this magnificent Mozart – Requiem Trafalgar Sinfonia death, including Britten’s Antiphon and Hall and Purcell Room, St John's art-form. Smith Square, Cadogan Hall and Trafalgar Sinfonia Judith Weir’s Love bade me welcome. Milton Court. The Spring season sees something that Richard Milone Violin Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells St Martin’s Voices will entertain everyone! On Saturday 27 Ivor Setterfield Conductor This evening, they will be performing a Andrew Earis Director January, come and explore the musical Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 programme of works from the gold and seasons in ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’ from 7.30pm Sounds from the Screen silver screens, including Samuel Vivaldi’s masterpiece the Four Seasons. Monday 19 February Barber’s haunting Adagio for Strings On Saturday 10 February, discover the John Williams – Schindler's List 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert (from Platoon), John Williams’ theme masterpieces of Handel, and come and Thomas Newman – Any Other Name from Schindler’s List, and the theme hear some favourite Baroque A selection of favourite twentieth century (American Beauty) tune from Downton Abbey. masterpieces on Saturday 17 March. English choral and vocal music, including Bernard Herrmann – Psycho: Prelude Dinara Klinton Piano Octave London works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Barber – Adagio for Strings (Platoon) And don’t forget – before and after the Tickets: £20 £16 £13 Choir of London Octave Gerald Finzi. John Lunn – Downton Abbey Mini Maestro concerts, we are open for London Octave Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields Covent Garden Sinfonia brass rubbing downstairs in the Crypt. Wednesday 14 February Dietrich Bethge Conductor Ben Palmer Conductor Using traditional wax crayons and 6.30pm FREE Great Sacred Choral Classics 8.00pm Katie Bradley Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £13 £9 Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 paper and a selection of over 100 Allegri Miserere Katie Bradley creates the perfect setting for replica brasses, children of all ages can A performance of the Miserere by Allegri, create their own work of art. Parents Valentine’s Day with her soaring voice, soulful blues harp and excellent musicians. alongside choral works by Byrd and Victoria. can join in too or just sit back and enjoy Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells a tea, coffee or cheeky slice of cake from Tickets: £15 £12 £8 St Martin’s Voices On sale six weeks prior to the event. the award-winning Café in the Crypt. Andrew Earis Director

18 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 19 Come and Sing: Friday 23 February Saturday 24 February Wednesday 28 February Friday 2 March mySt Martin’s 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert 6.00-7.00pm Sound of St Martin’s 8.00pm The Fabulations 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Highlights of Handel Programme to be announced. Ave Maria – Choral Music by Candlelight Elgar – Selections from From The Saturday 24 February, 10.15am Embassy of Estonia Tavener – Song for Athene Bavarian Highlands Parsons – Ave Maria Biebl – Ave Maria 7.30pm Bach Brandenburg Concertos Parry – My soul there is a country Max Reger – Folk Songs by Candlelight Parry – Never weather beaten sail Rheinberger – Abendlied Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Rachmaninov – Ave Maria from Vespers Humperdink – Prayer from Hansel Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 4 St Martin’s Chorus and Gretel Vivaldi – Concerto for Flute in A minor Andrew Earis Director Voxcetera Vivaldi – Concerto for Cello in B minor Tickets: £14 (unreserved) Jane Hopkins Conductor Mozart – Divertimento No 2 in B flat Adam Johnson Piano 8.00pm Sound of St Martin’s Handel Messiah by Candlelight 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight Handel – Messiah Mozart – Divertimento in D Purcell – Chaconne Marion Joseph’s powerful vocals deliver a Pachelbel – Canon in D Fancy yourself as a singer? Join fantastic evening of soulful funk, disco Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Andrew Earis and members of and pop. Vivaldi – Four Seasons St Martin’s Voices on the stage St Martin's Consort for a morning workshop on Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Looking for the perfect gift for a music On sale six weeks prior to the event. Andrew Earis Director favourite choruses from the Baroque lover? A subscription to myStMartin’s Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £13 £9 master Handel. Thursday 1 March could be it! Following the workshop, there will be 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Saturday 3 March myStMartin’s is St Martin-in-the- an informal performance, which is Guide me, O thou Great Redeemer 7.30pm Baroque Extravaganza by Candlelight Fields exclusive membership benefits free to attend. programme, with a wide range of A celebration of Welsh hymns and choral Vivaldi – ‘Spring’ and ‘Summer’ from the music for St David’s Day. discounts and perks available Tickets: £12 including music hire. Four Seasons throughout the year. Please note that the ability to read Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Bach – Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 music is required, and experience of St Martin’s Voices Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Becoming a part of the myStMartin’s singing in a choir is recommended. St Martin’s Voices Andrew Earis Director Handel – Water Music Suite in G family costs just £40 per year, for St Martin’s Baroque Players Christopher Suckling Christopher Mozart – Divertimento No 1 in D which members will receive: Andrew Earis Director 7.00pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Feinstein Ensemble • Priority booking for Christmas Tickets: £29 £25 £22 £16 £9 Mozart Requiem by Candlelight Martin Feinstein Director/Flute/Recorder Mozart – Requiem concerts Catherine Manson Violin Monday 26 February Handel – Dixit Dominus • 10% Discount on all concert tickets Christopher Suckling Cello 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert Choir of Queen’s College, Cambridge Robin Bigwood Harpsichord Old Royal Naval College Trinity • Free cushion hire Beethoven – Sonata for Violin and Piano Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Laban Chapel Choir Franck – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A • No booking fees when buying Brandenburg Sinfonia Emily Sun Violin by telephone Saturday 24 February Ralph Allwood Conductor Representing Making Music • 10% Discount in the Café in the Crypt 10.15am Come and Sing: Tickets: £29 (premium) £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Highlights of Handel Tuesday 27 February • 10% Discount in the Shop at 9.30-10.30pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Join Andrew Earis and members of 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime concert St Martin’s St Martin’s Voices for a morning workshop Rachmaninov Vespers by Candlelight The Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Martin Feinstein • Quarterly brochure delivered to on famous Handel choruses. Rachmaninov – Vespers Max and Peggy Morgan Prize Winner will be your door. 10.00am doors open Pärt – Vespers Festive Orchestra of London performing at this lunchtime concert. 10.15am workshop Holst – Vespers Catherine Manson Violin/Director For more information about becoming Programme and performer to be announced. 12.30pm performance Choir of Royal Holloway Miki Takahashi Violin a part of the scheme, call the box office Max and Peggy Morgan Violin Prize Winner Andrew Earis Director Rupert Gough Conductor Martin Feinstein Flute/Recorder on 020 7766 1100 or visit us at Representing the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Tickets: £12 including music hire Tickets: £14 (unreserved) Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 www.smitf.org.

20 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 21 Venue hire Monday 5 March Thursday 8 March Saturday 10 March Thursday 15 March Jazz and Live Music 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 7.30pm Bach, Handel and Vivaldi by Candlelight 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Bach – Concerto for Oboe and Violin in Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins Op 3 No 4 The Wilderness in the Crypt Competition Semi-Final I D minor Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ In the journey of Lent, we explore Biblical Programme to feature two of six semi-finalists Bach – Adagio for Oboe and Strings Telemann – Don Quixote Suite wanderings in the desert, with music in the 2018 Chamber Music Competition. Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ Pachelbel – Canon including S S Wesley’s The Wilderness. March Handel – Arrival of the Queen Sheba Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin No 1 in B flat Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Tuesday 6 March Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor ‘La stravaganza’ St Martin’s Voices 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Vivaldi – Four Seasons Andrew Earis Director St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Competition Semi-Final II 7.30pm Bach Chamber Masterpieces by Candlelight Programme to feature two of six semi-finalists in the 2018 Chamber Music Competition. Bach – Fugue for Violin and Continuo in G minor 7.45pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Bach – Suite for Cello No 3 in C Brahms Requiem by Candlelight Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C minor Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem Handel – Trio Sonata for Two Violins and Medici Choir Continuo in G minor Brandenburg Sinfonia Bach – Trio Sonata for Flute, Violin and John Baird Conductor Continuo in E minor Tickets: £26 (premium) £22 £18 £14

Miss Hoodoo and the Delta Boys

Wednesday 7 March Ivor Setterfield

8.00pm John Donegan Quartet Belmont Ensemble of London Trafalgar Sinfonia Wednesday 7 March, 8.00pm Belmont Ensemble of London Marije Johnston Violin Helen Davies Violin Ivor Setterfield Conductor John Donegan Quartet Pippa Harris Violin Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 Latin rhythms and soulful bebop Geoffrey Coates Oboe blended with traditional and Planning a party or corporate event? Peter Dyson Conductor Monday 12 March modern jazz. Let the Events team at St Martin’s Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert help. St Martin’s has a series of Wednesday 14 March, 8.00pm stunning spaces available for hire from Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, sung by members of Friday 9 March Miss Hoodoo and the Delta Boys small and medium-sized modern St Martin’s Voices. 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert One of the hottest tickets on the blues meeting rooms to a space for a bash for St Martin’s Voices 350 in the historic Crypt. And with our St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber and soul circuit. enviable Trafalgar Square location and Competition Semi-Final III Tuesday 13 March Wednesday 21 March, 8.00pm profits that support our work, St Programme to feature two of six semi-finalists Modern and traditional jazz with a hint of 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Martin’s ticks all the venue hire boxes. in the 2018 Chamber Music Competition. Mississippi Swamp Dogs soul and funk. Ravel – Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Inspired by some of New Orleans finest For further information on availability, de Falla – Siete canciones populares españolas Tickets: £15 £12 £8 7.30pm Bach Brandenburg Concertos musicians from Louis Armstrong to menus and more, email On sale six weeks prior to the event. Ibert – Chansons de Don Quichotte by Candlelight Dr John. [email protected]. Timothy Dickinson Baritone

Mozart – Divertimento in D Manson Catherine Thursday 8 March Anyssa Neumann Piano Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Wednesday 28 March, 8.00pm 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Feinstein Ensemble Handel – Concerto Grosso The Fabulations International Women’s Day Wednesday 14 March Martin Feinstein Director/Flute Mozart – Flute Quartet in D Catherine Manson Violin Marian Joseph’s powerful vocals A celebration of women composers for 8.00pm Miss Hoodoo and the Delta Boys Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 4 Miki Takahashi Violin inspire, entertain and get everyone onto International Women’s Day. Soul and blues delivered with outstanding London Concertante Christopher Suckling Cello the dance floor. Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Ben Norris Violin vocals, heavyweight horns and a tight Robin Bigwood Harpsichord St Martin’s Voices Julian Sperry Flute rhythm section. Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Please note Jazz Nights go on sale Andrew Earis Director David Gordon Harpsichord Tickets: £15 £12 £8 six weeks prior to the event. Tickets: £28 £24 £19 £15 £9 On sale six weeks prior to the event.

22 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 23 Chamber Music Friday 16 March Saturday 17 March Thursday 22 March Saturday 24 March St Martin’s 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 7.30pm Mozart Symphony No 40 by Candlelight 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight Competition 2018 Marcel – Tournier Sonatine Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba World Water Day Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Embassy Series In partnership with Making Music Scarlatti – Sonata in A Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Choral music on the theme of water marking Mozart – Divertimento No 3 in F Monthly, throughout the year John Marson – El Picaflor Beethoven – Romance in F for Violin World Water Day. Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D Semi-Finals 5, 6 and 9 March, 1.00pm Debussy – Valse romantique and Orchestra Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins in B minor Final Tuesday 20 March, 7.30pm Gabriella Jones Harp Handel – Water Music St Martin’s Voices Vivaldi – Four Seasons Juan Antonio Garcia Harp Mozart – Symphony No 40 in G minor Andrew Earis Director Festive Orchestra of London Representing Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music Includes MEET the MUSIC interval event Catherine Manson Violin/Director and Dance London Musical Arts Ensemble 7.30pm Bach, Handel, Vivaldi by Candlelight Miki Takahashi Violin John Landor Presenter/Conductor Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 7.30pm Fauré Requiem by Candlelight Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 Handel – Concerto Grosso Fauré – Requiem Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Monday 26 March Handel – Gloria Monday 19 March Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Mozart – Ave verum corpus 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins Pachelbel – Canon in D Haydn – Seven Last Words Mozart – Laudate dominum Schubert – Drei Klavierstücke Gildas String Quartet Prokofiev – Gavotte, Rigaudon, Prelude and Park Lane Group Young Artists Scherzo from Ten Pieces Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 10 in E Tuesday 27 March Zelkova Quartet, 2017 winners Vitaly Pisarenko Piano 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Now in its ninth year, the St Martin’s Representing the Royal College of Music Shostakovich – Piano Trio No 1 Chamber Music Competition has Arensky – Piano Trio No 1 Tuesday 20 March become a highlight in the discerning Trio Carducci concertgoer’s diary. 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Programme and performer to be announced. Trafalgar Sinfonia 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s The competition embodies St Martin- Trafalgar Sinfonia A Concert for Holy Week in-the-Fields’ commitment to St Martin’s Embassy and Cultural Institute Series Ivor Setterfield Conductor Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus discovering, developing and promoting 7.30pm St Martin’s Chamber Music Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah new and emerging musical talent, and Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Competition Final Will Todd – Passion Music (world première) St Martin’s exists on an international continues a long history of musical Three ensembles will perform for a Friday 23 March platform – from our location, our excellence and artistic contribution in Weisberg Elizabeth history of social engagement, our the heart of London. distinguished panel of judges. Results will be 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert English Chamber Choir announced at the end of the evening. diverse congregations and visitors and The prize offers the invaluable Belmont Ensemble of London David Conte – Fantasy long-standing partnerships, all Tickets: £20 £16 £13 opportunity for young and developing Elizabeth Weisberg Soprano Debussy – Étude pour les cinq doigts d’après epitomised within the work of the Philip Tebb Baritone Monsieur Czerny St Martin’s International Committee. chamber talent to establish their Wednesday 21 March performance profile in a series of William Vann Organ Debussy – Étude pour les arpèges composes We are expanding this work within our concerts around the UK through the Helen Davies Violin 8.00pm Mississippi Swamp Dogs Rachmaninov – Sonata for Piano No 2 in B concerts series through partnership Making Music member network. Peter Dyson Conductor flat minor with local embassies to bring the finest Matthew Odell Piano (USA) St Martin’s Chorus There are three free semi-finals (5, 6 Tickets: £26, £22, £18, £13, £9 international talent to the cultural Pianists of the World Series St Martin’s Chorus and 9 March at 1.00pm) and a ticketed heart of London. These free concerts Saturday 17 March Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields final (20 March at 7.30pm). The 7.30pm Bach Violin Concertos by Candlelight take place every month as part of our 4.30-5.30pm Mini Maestro Family Concert: Andrew Earis Conductor concerts are fantastic occasions to hear Bach – Concerto for Violin in E popular Lunchtime Concert Series. and support these outstanding Marvellous Mozart, Heroic Handel Tickets: £22 £18 £14 Bach – Concerto for Violin in A minor The Drake University Chamber musicians at the beginning of their Come on a journey through Mozart's Pachelbel – Canon in D Wednesday 28 March Choir will make a welcome return to professional careers. marvellous symphony and hear the Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ St Martin’s on Tuesday 16 January, instruments telling a story. There is also a 8.00pm The Fabulations Traditional New Orleans music from Louis Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor performing works by Victoria, sprinkling of Handel’s Water Music to enjoy! Arrnstrong and Fats Domino to the London Musical Arts Ensemble Motown classics, disco anthems and the latest Palestrina, Rutter and Esenvalds. London Musical Arts Ensemble Neville Brothers. John Landor Director chart hits. John Landor Presenter/Director Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Tickets: £10 (adults) £8 (under 16) On sale six weeks prior to the event. On sale six weeks prior to the event.

24 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 25 Sound of St Martin’s Thursday 29 March Monday 2 April Thursday 5 April Saturday 7 April Easter gifts in 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music 7.30pm Vivaldi and Bach Concertos Music for Holy week A Sequence for Holy Week David Matthews – Variations for Piano Handel Messiah by Candlelight the Shop and Easter Including the Passion According to St Mark Beethoven – Sonata in C minor A celebration for Easter, including choruses Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins set to music by composer John Sanders. Dominic Degavino Piano from Handel’s Messiah. Bach – Air 'on the G string' Sunday 25 March, Palm Sunday Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Representing the Royal Over-Seas League Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Vivaldi – ‘Summer’ and ‘Autumn’ from the 5.00pm St Martin’s Voices St Martin’s Voices Four Seasons Andrew Earis Director 7.30pm Handel Messiah by Candlelight Andrew Earis Director Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No 2 Handel – Messiah Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Friday 30 March English Chamber Choir 7.00pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Trafalgar Sinfonia 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Belmont Ensemble of London Fauré Requiem by Candlelight Richard Milone Violin Bach St John Passion by Candlelight Elizabeth Weisberg Soprano Fauré – Requiem Ivor Setterfield Conductor Bach – St John Passion Ciara Hendrick Mezzo soprano Joyful Company of Singers Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 Peter Davoren Tenor Brandenburg Sinfonia Philip Tebb Bass Peter Broadbent Conductor Monday 9 April Peter Dyson Conductor Tickets: £29 (premium) £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Tickets: £29 £25 £22 £16 £9 Guy Weitz – Grand Choeur 9.30-10.30pm Brandenburg Choral Festival Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor ‘Dorian’ Spem in Alium by Candlelight Tuesday 3 April Franck – Choral No 1 in E 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Tallis – Spem in alium Whitlock – Folk Tune from ‘Five Short Pieces’ Purcell Singers Grieg – Sechs Lieder Boëllmann – Toccata from ‘Suite Gothique’ At the Shop at St Martin’s, we have a Schubert – Im Frühling Mark Ford Conductor Andrew Earis Organ Tuesday 27 March, 7.30pm superb selection of Easter cards, Schubert – Die Junge Nonne Tickets: £14 (unreserved) A Concert for Holy Week decorations and gifts including: Schumann – Meine rose Tuesday 10 April St Martin’s Chorus and the Choral Schumann – Der schwere Abend Friday 6 April 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert • Bible verse cards from Leonard Smith Scholars of St Martin-in-the- Iúnó Connolly Soprano 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Fields will perform music for Holy Paul Higgs – Pavane • Silver crosses and pendants Music by Sibelius, Debussy and Mozart. David Rose – Holiday for Strings Week, including works by Tallis, Wednesday 4 April • Thought-provoking books by leading Allegri and the world première of ŃLSØ Chamber Ensemble Rodrigo – Concerto de Aranjuez theologians, including this year’s Lent 8.00pm The Fallen Heroes Passion Music by Will Todd. Piazzolla – Libertango title Abidingby Ben Quash 7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee • Stained glass roundels from Thursday 29 March, 1.00pm Funky Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight Paul Higgs Trumpet Winged Heart Great Sacred Music Mozart – Divertimento in D Join us to mark Maundy Thursday, as Purcell – Chaconne 7.30pm Bach, Vivaldi and Purcell by Candlelight • Fair Trade papier-mache eggs the clergy and St Martin’s Voices Pachelbel – Canon in D Vivaldi – Concerto for Strings in G minor and rabbits explore the Passion According to Fields Academy of St Martin in the Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Bach – Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor St Mark by John Sanders. We look forward to welcoming you this St Martin’s Voices Vivaldi – Four Seasons John Rutter – Suite Antique Easter to the Shop at St Martin’s. Friday 30 March, Good Friday, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Purcell – Abdelazar 7.30pm Andrew Earis Conductor Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Tonight, St Martin’s Voices welcome Tickets: £30 £25 £20 £16 £9 you to the beautifully resonant setting of St Martin-in-the-Fields for an Saturday 31 March atmospheric candlelit performance of 6.30-7.30pm Sound of St Martin’s Bach’s celebrated St John Passion. Fauré Requiem by Candlelight Saturday 31 March, Holy Victoria – Tenebrae Responsories Saturday, 6.30pm Fauré – Requiem Asako Ogawa St Martin’s Voices perform a Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields Keld Ensemble selection of poignant music for Tom Williams Director Funky New Orleans rhythm and blues Andrew Earis Asako Ogawa Harpsichord blended with a contemporary London sound. Passiontide, including the Tickets: £16 £12 £7 St Martin’s Consort Janna Hüneke Flute Fauré’s Requiem and Victoria’s Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Andrew Earis Conductor Jonathan Acton Director Tenebrae Responsories. On sale six weeks prior to the event. Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £13 £9 Tickets: £20 £18 £14

26 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 27 Jazz and Live Music Wednesday 11 April Friday 13 April Monday 16 April Wednesday 18 April Café in the Courtyard 8.00pm TJ Johnson and his Band 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 8.00pm The Reliables in the Crypt Mozart – Sonata for Piano and Violin in B flat Vitali – Chaconne in G minor Romberg – Sonata for Piano and Violin in Turnage – Two elegies framing a shout B flat Grieg – Sonata No 1 April James Woodrow Violin Jonathan Radford Saxophone Alexander Woodrow Piano Kaoli Ono Piano Representing Making Music 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight Vivaldi – Four Seasons Tuesday 17 April Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Pachelbel – Canon in D Rameau – Allemande Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No 3 Rameau – Le Rappel des Oiseaux Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ Rameau – Les Tendres Plaintes Cool, swingin’ jazz in the great tradition of Cătălin Ștefănescu-Pătrașcu – Gerar Miles Davis and John Coltrane. The Café in the Courtyard opens for the Rodrigo – Tonadilla season on 26 March just in time for the Piazzolla – Tango Suite Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Easter holidays. Tucked behind the On sale six weeks prior to the event. Tango 1, Tango 2, Tango 3 church, the Café in the Courtyard is Thursday 19 April the perfect place to catch up with friends as you sit back and watch the 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music world go by. Blest Pair of Sirens Anticipating St George’s Day, including The menu includes tasty summer Jazz, blues, and soulful gospel performed with Parry’s anthem Blest pair of Sirens. salads and sandwiches, mouth- passion, style and swagger. Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells watering main courses, savoury snacks The Silver Ghosts Tickets: £15 £12 £8 St Martin’s Voices and tempting desserts to eat in or take On sale six weeks prior to the event. Andrew Earis Director away. The Café in the Courtyard also has an evening menu featuring Wednesday 4 April, 8.00pm Thursday 12 April 7.30pm Bach and Vivaldi by Candlelight delicious platters to share and a full The Fallen Heroes 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba wine list. Nicola Loud Traditional New Orleans music served All things bright and beautiful Vivaldi – ‘Spring’ from the Four Seasons th Belmont Ensemble of London Café in the Courtyards up with a modern London vibe. Marking the 200 anniversary of the birth of Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor Nicola Loud Violin Opening Times from 26 March – Cecil Francis Alexander, writer of All things Bach – Adagio for Oboe and Strings Wednesday 11 April, 8.00pm Peter Dyson Conductor 30 April bright and beautiful, There is a green hill far Bach – Concerto for Oboe and Violin Monday-Friday 8.00am-7.00pm TJ Johnson and his Band away and Once in Royal David’s City. Tickets: £26 £22 £18 £13 £9 Duo Kitharsis London Octave Saturday 9.00am-7.00pm Cool jazz and rolling rhythm and blues Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Representing the Romanian Cultural Institute Herbert Lashner Oboe Sunday 11.00am-6.00pm with the swagger of a late night crooner. St Martin’s Voices Saturday 14 April Lorraine McAslan Violin Andrew Earis Director 6.00-7.00pm Brandenburg Choral Festival 7.30pm Mozart Requiem by Candlelight Dietrich Bethge Director Visit our website for Opening Times Wednesday 18 April, 8.00pm Allegri Miserere by Candlelight Byrd – Sanctus and Benedictus from Mass Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 from May – October. 7.30pm Bach, Handel and Vivaldi The Reliables Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus for Five Voices by Candlelight A hip and funky performance of jazz Choir of University College, Oxford Ola Gjeilo – London Sanctus Friday 20 April standards and bluesy originals. Albinoni – Adagio for Strings Giles Underwood Conductor Mozart – Ave verum corpus 1.oopm FREE Lunchtime Concert Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Balfour Gardiner – Evening Hymn Tickets: £14 (unreserved) Joaquin Turina Sevillia – Sous Les orangers Wednesday 25 April, 8.00pm Vivaldi – ‘Winter’ from the Four Seasons Mozart – Requiem Oscar Lorenzo Fernández – Suite Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 3 Voxcetera The Silver Ghosts 8.00pm Brandenburg Choral Festival brasileira No 2 Pachelbel – Canon in D Nothern Lights Symphony Orchestra Mozart Requiem by Candlelight Manuel M. Ponce – Balada Mexicana Heartfelt, danceable tunes from this Vivaldi – ‘Summer’ from the Four Seasons Adam Johnson Conductor Mozart – Requiem Mario Ruiz Armengol – Selections from classic 7-piece swing band. Trafalgar Sinfonia Jane Hopkins Conductor Twickenham Choral Society Richard Milone Violin Danzas Cubanas Brandenburg Sinfonia Tickets: £22 £18 £14 Please note Jazz Nights go on sale Ivor Setterfield Conductor Astor Piazzolla – Tango Fantasy: Adios Noni six weeks prior to the event. Christopher Herrick Conductor Ernest So Piano Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Tickets: £33 (premium) £29 £25 £22 £16 £9 Representing the Iberian and Latin American Music Series

28 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 29 Friday 20 April Wednesday 25 April Saturday 28 April Booking and General Information 7.30pm Mozart Jupiter Symphony 8.00pm The Silver Ghosts 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight Brass Evening concerts by Candlelight A sentimental journey back to the big band Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins Doors open 30 minutes before start of concert. Concerts usually last two hours unless stated otherwise, Britten – Simple Symphony swing of the 20s, 30s and 40s. Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ including an interval of 20 minutes. Interval drinks can be pre-ordered from the Café in the Crypt. Bach – Air ‘on the G string’ Pachelbel – Canon in D Rubbing Tickets: £15 £12 £8 Admission is by ticket only. Mozart – Concerto for Piano No 20 in On sale six weeks prior to the event. Bach – Concerto for Violin in E D minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Lunchtime concerts Borodin – Nocturne Thursday 26 April Doors open at 12.30pm for a 1.00pm start. Lunchtime concerts are normally scheduled for Mondays, Mozart – Symphony No 41 ‘The Jupiter’ 1.00pm FREE Great Sacred Music Tuesdays and Fridays. All our Lunchtime Concerts are free of charge – a suggested donation of £3.50 All my Hope on God is Founded per person goes towards the work of St Martin’s. An exploration of the poetry of former poet Jazz and Live Music in the Crypt laureate Robert Bridges on the anniversary First set: 8.00pm – 8.50pm. Second set: 9.10pm – 10.00pm. On these evenings the Café is open to of his death, including Finzi’s My Spirit Sang ticket holders only from 6.30pm. Holders of unreserved tickets are advised to arrive early to secure a all Day. seat. Food is served until 9.00pm and drinks until 10.00pm. Details of our Friday late night music in the Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells Crypt is available on our website. St Martin’s Voices How to book

Tamila Salimdjanova Andrew Earis Director Secure online booking: www.smitf.org, booking fee applies. By telephone: 020 7766 1100 Monday- Saturday 10.00am-5.00pm, booking fee applies. In person: Monday-Wednesday 10.00am-5.00pm*, Thames Chamber Orchestra 7.30pm Vivaldi and Handel by Candlelight Tamila Salimdjanova Piano Thursday-Saturday 10.00am-8.30pm*. Keith Marshall Conductor Handel – Concerto Grosso Alexander's Feast *On Jazz Nights the Box Office is open until 9.00pm. On bank holidays the Box Office opens at 12noon. Handel – Air from the Water Music Tickets: £25 £22 £18 £13 £9 Bach – Air 'on the G string' Discounts Corelli – Christmas Concerto Group rates apply to parties of 16 or more people. Discounts for evening concert tickets are currently Saturday 21 April Handel – Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 12 only available when booking by telephone on 020 7766 1100 or in person. 7.30pm Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight London Musical Arts Ensemble Concessions Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A minor John Landor Director Available to full-time students, those over 60 and the unwaged when purchased in person (subject to

Mozart – Divertimento No 1 in D Tickets: £24 £20 £16 £13 £9 Ivor Setterfield availability). Children under 3 years will not be admitted. Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D Trafalgar Sinfonia Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor Friday 27 April Restricted mobility Richard Milone Violin Wheelchair access to the church and concerts is via a ramp on the north side of church. There is a lift Vivaldi – Four Seasons 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Ivor Setterfield Conductor Festive Orchestra of London between crypt and church and from street to crypt level. We offer a complimentary ticket for an enabler Programme to be announced. Miki Takahashi Violin/Director Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 assisting a customer with a disability (subject to availability). There are four wheelchair spaces in church Pianists of the World Series Sarah Moffatt Violin and in the crypt for Jazz Nights. Monday 30 April Tickets: £28 £24 £20 £15 £9 7.30pm Baroque Masterpieces by Candlelight Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break during the performance. 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Ticket Refund and Exchange Monday 23 April Ravel – Piano Trio in A minor Using specialist paper and metallic Pachelbel – Canon in D Rachmaninov – Trio élégiaque No 1 in Tickets are non-refundable. However, tickets may be exchanged up to 48 hours before the performance. waxes you can create your own 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert Telemann – Concerto for Four Violins G minor An administration charge will apply. masterpiece. Choose from St Martin’s Bach – Concerto for Violin in A minor Barber – Summer Music Trio Opal How to find St Martin-in-the-Fields superb selection of replica brasses Vivaldi – ‘Spring’ and ‘Summer’ from the Arnold – Three Shanties St Martin’s is at the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square and is easily accessible by public transport. including medieval knights in armour, Four Seasons Representing the Royal Academy of Music Françaix – Wind Quintet No 1 Underground: Charing Cross, Leicester Square. Train: Charing Cross. Bus: 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, fabulous costumed ladies, St George Prima Wind Quintet 7.00-8.00pm Allegri Miserere by Candlelight 29, 53, 87, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, 453 and several night buses. Cycle: There are cycle stands in St Martin’s and the Dragon, William Shakespeare Representing the Royal Northern College of Music Place and Adelaide Street. The nearest cycle hire docking station is on William IV Street. and many more. Prices for brass Allegri – Kyrie from Missa Che fa oggi il mio rubbing start at £3.50. The last brass Tuesday 24 April Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus Join our free ‘In the Pipeline’ email list Scarlatti – Iste Confessor rubbing takes place one hour before 1.00pm FREE Lunchtime Concert For a monthly email giving advance notice of concerts, talks and exhibitions as well as other special the Shop closes. Scarlatti – Stabat Mater events and news from St Martin’s, please visit www.smitf.org/itp. Talented students from the UK’s leading Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields

specialist music school perform a Concertante London Tom Williams Director myStMartin’s For information about joining our membership scheme please call the Box Office on 020 7766 1100 or varied programme. London Concertante Tickets: £15 (unreserved) Purcell School Ben Norris Violin visit us at www.smitf.org. Representing the Purcell School Tickets: £28 £24 £19 £15 £9 We reserve the right to alter programme details and substitute artists if necessary. All information correct at time of printing.

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1. IN THE BEGINNING 6. ST MARTIN 4 Sculpture in Portland Statue by James Butler of stone by Mike Chapman to 3 St Martin and the beggar. 11 mark the millennium. The patron saint of this The carved words are from church is the inspiration 5 St John’s Gospel, “In the for our work with homeless beginning was the Word...” 6 people here in London.

2. LIVING SOUTH AFRICA 7. PULPIT MEMORIAL Originally a three decker Sculpture by Chaim Stephenson to pulpit, beautifully crafted remember all victims of injustice 7 and made by local 18th and violence in South Africa century craftsmen. A sacred during the years of apartheid. monogram on one of the Dedicated by Archbishop panels are the first three Desmond Tutu in 1994. letters of the name ‘Jesus’.

3. MOSAICS 8. FONT On either side of the 8 Originally from the church sanctuary are two beautiful 2 previously situated on this Victorian mosaics of the 9 site. A gift in 1689 from annunciation, as the angel William Bridgeman, announces to Mary that she 10 Secretary to the Admiralty will bear the Christ Child. Board in thanksgiving for a son.

4. EAST WINDOW 9. ORGAN AND ALTAR Handel played the opening Designed by Iranian born artist recital here in 1726. The Shirazeh Houshiary and architect 1 present organ was built by Pip Horne. The window inspires Walker’s in 1990. reflection and prayer, the altar a place of transformation from death to life.

5. ROYAL COAT OF ARMS 11. F.E.P.O.W. MEMORIAL 10. PAINTINGS St Martin’s is the Royal Parish The Far East Prisoners of St Martin – Francisco Church. This coat of arms is War Memorial is in memory Solimena, 1730 that of King George I who was of those who died as a result James Gibbs – Architect the first churchwarden. Above of imprisonment by the of this church built in 1726, the sanctuary beyond, the Japanese from 1941-45. by Andrea Soldi, 1800 golden sunburst holds the Dick Sheppard – Vicar Hebrew name for God, who of St Martin’s 1914–27 rules over all.