A Season to Sing - Official Launch Concert at St Bartholomew the Great, London on Saturday 22nd March 2025

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A Season to Sing - Official Launch Concert

Add to my Calendar 22-03-2025 19:30 22-03-2025 21:30 36 A Season to Sing - Official Launch Concert 'A Season to Sing' is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to mark its 300th anniversary in 2025. Arranged for mixed voices and organ, A Season to Sing weaves into Vivaldi’s much-loved melodies texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The 40-minute work also includes a new setting by Forbes L’Estrange of Ecclesiastes 3.2 – To everything there is a season. The programme also includes other music by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange together with pieces by Alexander L'Estrange and Sir John Rutter. “The Four Seasons is the first piece of music I can remember hearing from my childhood. I used to dance around the sitting room to it!” Joanna recalls. “I thought a great way to mark its 300th anniversary would be to make it possible for choirs to perform it. Vivaldi’s tunes are so magnificent they deserve to be sung!” - JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE "...simply beautiful choral writing by someone who knows, from a singer's perspective, how to compose music which every choir will want to sing." - SIR JOHN RUTTER CBE, composer A Season to Sing is a co-commissioning project with the Royal School of Church Music     St Bartholomew the Great, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Bartholomew the Great
West Smithfield
City of London
London
EC1A 9DS
England

Saturday 22nd March 2025
7:30 PM

Programme

Joanna Forbes L'Estrange – A Season to Sing (A choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)

Performers

Gavin Roberts – organ
Rebekah Abbott – choral director

Luminosa Music

Programme Note

'A Season to Sing' is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to mark its 300th anniversary in 2025.

Arranged for mixed voices and organ, A Season to Sing weaves into Vivaldi’s much-loved melodies texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The 40-minute work also includes a new setting by Forbes L’Estrange of Ecclesiastes 3.2 – To everything there is a season.

The programme also includes other music by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange together with pieces by Alexander L'Estrange and Sir John Rutter.

“The Four Seasons is the first piece of music I can remember hearing from my childhood. I used to dance around the sitting room to it!” Joanna recalls. “I thought a great way to mark its 300th anniversary would be to make it possible for choirs to perform it. Vivaldi’s tunes are so magnificent they deserve to be sung!” - JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE

"...simply beautiful choral writing by someone who knows, from a singer's perspective, how to compose music which every choir will want to sing." - SIR JOHN RUTTER CBE, composer

A Season to Sing is a co-commissioning project with the Royal School of Church Music

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