St Martin-in-the-FieldsTrafalgar Square, London, Greater London, WC2N 4JJ, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
| Friday 13 November 2026 | 19:30 |
Programme
| Shaw, Caroline (b. 1982) | Companion Planting | |
| Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525-1594) | Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas | |
| Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (1848-1918) | Songs of Farewell |
Performers
| BBC Singers | |
| Krista Audere | Conductor |
The BBC Singers, conducted by Krista Audere, perform Parry’s Songs of Farewell, his profoundly moving cycle of wartime laments for a lost age. Confronted by both the devastation of the First World War and by his own declining health, Parry poured his response into six luminous choral motets steeped in nostalgia and grief, and widely regarded as some of the most powerful music he ever wrote.
The first half of the concert looks to renewal and the natural world, pairing Caroline Shaw’s Companion Planting with one of Palestrina’s earliest works, his radiant Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas.
There will be one interval.
Tickets: £16 - £30 (plus booking fee)
