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Choral music of the feathered variety, including The Lark Ascending and works by Ravel, Gibbons, Leighton, and Stanford
Add to my Calendar 22-11-2025 19:30 22-11-2025 21:30 36 Bird/Song From the warble of a nightingale to the chatter of a chaffinch, birds of every feather have exercised the imaginations of composers and poets throughout the centuries. This November, CML returns to Temple Church for a concert inspired by both the majesty of birds in flight and their mellifluous vocal dexterity. The concert will feature violinist Ian Belton performing a special arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s soaring and elegiac tone poem The Lark Ascending, with the choir providing vocal accompaniment. Choral favourites will also feature, including Charles Villiers Stanford’s popular and gravity-defying partsong The Blue Bird. The concert promises a kaleidoscopic array of colourful plumages and tuneful avian tweets, including an owl, a cuckoo and a turtle dove, in an eclectic and uplifting programme, in one of the capital’s most atmospheric and historic venues. Temple Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Temple Church
Temple
City of London
London
EC4Y 7BB
England
Tickets
Prices: £20, £18 concessions on the door. £18, £16 concessions in advance.
Booking line: 07812 599340
Book Tickets
Programme
Henry Purcell – The Fairy Queen: 'Come All Ye Songsters'
Clément Janequin – Le chant des oiseaux
John Goss – List! For the Breeze
Thomas Vautor – Sweet Suffolk Owl
George Alexander Macfarren – Hark, hark, the lark
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Orlando Gibbons – Dainty Fine Bird
Charles Villiers Stanford – Heraclitus, Op.110 no.4
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Harold Arlen – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
~ Interval ~
Maurice Ravel – Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis, M.69 no.2
Kenneth Leighton – Six Elizabethan Lyrics: Flourish
Kenneth Leighton – Six Elizabethan Lyrics: Fanfare
Traditional British – The Ash Grove (arr. Greg Morris)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The turtle dove
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending (arr. for choir and violin)
Performers
Ian Belton – violin
Greg Morris – Conductor
Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir
Programme Note
From the warble of a nightingale to the chatter of a chaffinch, birds of every feather have exercised the imaginations of composers and poets throughout the centuries.
This November, CML returns to Temple Church for a concert inspired by both the majesty of birds in flight and their mellifluous vocal dexterity.
The concert will feature violinist Ian Belton performing a special arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s soaring and elegiac tone poem The Lark Ascending, with the choir providing vocal accompaniment.
Choral favourites will also feature, including Charles Villiers Stanford’s popular and gravity-defying partsong The Blue Bird.
The concert promises a kaleidoscopic array of colourful plumages and tuneful avian tweets, including an owl, a cuckoo and a turtle dove, in an eclectic and uplifting programme, in one of the capital’s most atmospheric and historic venues.
