Mahler Symphony No.3

Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Hanna Hipp Mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Chorus
Tiffin Boys’ Choir

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Riotous, hallucinatory, extraordinary: Mahler’s Third Symphony knows no bounds, taking us from the smallest flower to the mystery of divine love.

Mahler’s famous quote about ‘embracing the world’ in his symphonies finds its fullest expression in this, his longest symphony. In six movements he charts the evolution of nature and mankind. The elemental power of summer is set against the delicacy of the natural world. And the dark night of the soul is broken by the sounds of angels and a ‘great summons’ to love more deeply than ever before.

A symphony filled with music of life-enhancing physicality and breathtaking melodic beauty, it is a story of such breadth and ambition that only Mahler could have dreamed of it, let alone write it.

Join us for an unmissable full-length concert performance of Bizet’s most celebrated opera, Carmen. Featuring internationally-acclaimed, multi-Grammy Award winning Joyce DiDonato as Carmen and renowned Michael Spyres as Don José.

Conducted by John Nelson, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and Tiffin Choirs bring Bizet’s searing score to life. Featuring Carmen’s most memorable melodies, from Escamillo’s Toreador Songto Don José’s heart-wrenching Flower Song.

This event continues a series of high-profile concerts and recordings by Joyce DiDonato and John Nelson, which have included Berlioz’s Romeo & Juliet, Damnation of Faust and Les Troyens.

Don’t miss out on the classical event of the season.

The Creation Joseph Haydn

Pimlico Chorus
PMF Foundation Scholars
Southbank Sinfonia

James Day conductor

The Southbank Sinfonia, Pimlico Musical Foundation Scholars, the Pimlico Chorus and Pimlico Musical Foundation Teacher-Singer soloists join forces for a very special performance of Haydn’s ‘The Creation’.

Composed by Joseph Haydn in 1798, ‘The Creation’ tells the story of the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and John Milton's ‘Paradise Lost’. The evening will be a celebration of the Pimlico community and an opportunity for our participants to join together and celebrate their progress.

Barnes Festival Orchestra
James Day conductor
Gyles Brandreth compere

A selection of works including:
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Reade A Victorian Garden Kitchen

This celebratory concert will bring together famous classical works for orchestra, opera and the stage in a rousing festival finale. The evening will be compered by Festival Patron and Barnes resident extraordinaire, Gyles Brandreth.

Artistic Director, James Day and the Barnes Festival Orchestra present a wonderful programme of sublime music associated with the Barnes Music Festival eco-system beginning with a theme of nature and locality. In the second half be prepared for an evening of fun and light-hearted music ranging from traditional songs to Gilbert & Sullivan.

Black tie encouraged, champagne provided!

Mahler Symphony No.3

Paavo Järvi conductor
Hongni Wu mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Voices (Ladies)
Tiffin Boys’ Choir

Where to begin with getting to know a six-movement piece 100 minutes long, and calling on 100 orchestral musicians, a solo singer and two choirs?

Mahler himself provided a guide – it’s clear from his original movement titles that he wanted his music to embrace nature, humanity and divine love. But we’d perhaps do best to heed his advice: “You just have to bring along ears and a heart, and – not least – willingly surrender.”

Leading the orchestra, singers and listeners into Mahler’s rich and compelling musical world is Grammy Award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi, a longstanding and hugely respected collaborator with the Orchestra. Soloist Hongni Wu is a graduate of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, acclaimed for the “youthful bloom and richness” of her voice (The New York Times).

Tiffin Choirs
James Day conductor
Fr Stephen Stavrou officiant

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange Responses
Sumsion Evening Service in A
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine

Join us for a service of Choral Evensong recorded for broadcast on the BBC onthe 29th March. Choral Evensong is the BBC’s longest-running outside broadcast programme.

The Tiffin Choirs have a leading international reputation, performing regularly on stage at the Royal Opera House and with all the London Orchestras and on Hollywood soundtracks. The service begins at 3.30pm with the congregation seated by 3pm.

Barnes Festival Consort
Pegasus Choir
Chamber Choirs
James Day conductor

Stephen Dodgson
Four Poems of Mary Coleridge
Home-bred pictures
Two Choral Songs

Some of Dodgson’s most interesting and alluring music can be found in his choral music. In preparation for the 100th anniversary celebrations next March, the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Trust will be launching a yearlong Choral Project encouraging choirs and vocal groups from around the world to discover and perform this amazing music.

Join us for the launch of this exciting project and a taster of the world of Stephen’s Choral Music performed by the professional Barnes Festival Consort and some of London’s leading Chamber Choirs.

Supported by The Stephen Dodgson Trust

Tiffin Boys' Choir perform the Christmas movements from Handel's Messiah, accompanied by a professional baroque orchestra. Solos are sung from over 10 members of the choir.

Mahler Symphony No.8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’

Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Philharmonia Chorus
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
City of London Choir
Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School
Tiffin Boys' Choir

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

A rare treat for Mahler-lovers and anyone who likes their symphonies on the grandest scale.

‘Can you imagine a symphony that is, from beginning to end, song?’ This was the ambitious vision that struck Mahler "like lightening" and had him composing in a frenzy. Within three months he had sketched his most epic work, echoing religious themes from earlier symphonies while taking them to a whole new level.

The first half is a celebration of the divine spirit. The second half, inspired by Goethe’s Faust, starts with ‘woodlands wavering into view’ and ends with dazzling visions of angels and the life eternal.

From the thundering organ chord and the double choir of the opening to the amassed brass at the end, the symphony delivers its message of redemption with the largest forces imaginable on stage. Initially promoted as the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ due to the numerous performers, Mahler is both exuberant and restrained. His more subdued, economic writing is every bit as powerful as the big set-pieces.

Neither cantata nor opera, the composer's lightning-strike vision was for how the worlds of instrument and voice might come together: a ‘True Symphony’, in Mahler’s words.

Cast includes: 

Sarah Wegener Soprano 
Jacquelyn Wagner Soprano
Regula Mühlemann Soprano 
Jennifer Johnston Mezzo-soprano
Benedict Nelson Tenor
Michael Nagy Baritone
James Platt Bass

This concert has no interval.

This concert has been rescheduled from Sun 18 Oct 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Haydn, The Creation

Mary Bevan, soprano
Robert Murray, tenor
Neal Davies, bass

Re-Creation, an ambitious remodel of Gabrieli’s established and successful Roar programme, aims to reinvigorate youth choirs around the region who have faced acute challenges during the pandemic. The project, which features an advanced training programme led by Gabrieli Artistic Director, Paul McCreesh, will culminate in a professional performance of Haydn’s The Creation at Worcester Cathedral on Sunday 1 August 2021 as part of the Three Choirs Festival. We estimate up to 100 young singers will participate in the project, in addition to Gabrieli’s renowned orchestral musicians, soloists and voice leaders.

Consider nature and the divine with Mahler’s epic Third Symphony, in a concert celebrating the bicentenary of the Royal Academy of Music.

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov conductor

Stephanie Wake-Edwards mezzo-soprano

Royal Academy of Music Chorus

Tiffin Boys' Choir

Mahler: Symphony No.3