| Sonntag 14 März 2027 | 16:00 |
| Tabakova, Dobrinka (b. 1980) | Organum Light | |
| Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918) | Reflets | |
| Boulanger, Nadia (1887-1979) | La Mer est plus belle (arr. Rhian Samuel) | |
| Mahler, Alma (1879-1964) | Die stille Stadt (arr. Rhian Samuel) | |
| Mahler, Alma (1879-1964) | 5 Lieder: Laue Sommernacht (arr. Rhian Samuel) | |
| Pritchard, Deborah (b. 1977) | The World | |
| Marsh, Joanna (b. 1970) | Another Eden | |
| Samuel, Rhian (b. 1944) | Nantcol Songs: A Perfect View | |
| Samuel, Rhian (b. 1944) | Lovesongs and Observations: My River Runs to Thee | |
| Samuel, Rhian (b. 1944) | A Wildflower Songbook: Naming the Flowers | |
| Wallen, Errollyn (b. 1958) | On the Mountain | |
| Wallen, Errollyn (b. 1958) | Peace on Earth | |
| Wallen, Errollyn (b. 1958) | Timeless | |
| Wallen, Errollyn (b. 1958) | Rain |
| United Strings of Europe | |
| Ruby Hughes | Sopran |
Soprano Ruby Hughes and innovative ensemble the United Strings of Europe present arrangements and commissions of 20th- and 21st-century works that celebrate natural beauty and explore our role in safeguarding it.
Nature and creativity are inseparable. One cannot survive without the other. And now more than ever feels like a time to reflect on nature, landscape and Earth.
What is our place in it? What does it mean to be custodians of this vast planet? And how have composers and songwriters through the ages drawn on nature to ignite their imagination and create music?
The programme includes music by living British composers: Ivor Academy winner Joanna Marsh, songs by Errollyn Wallen and new arrangements of songs by Deborah Pritchard and Welsh composer Rhian Samuel.
Expanding the repertoire for voice and string orchestra, the project seeks to engage audiences with the challenges of preserving, nurturing and staying wholly connected to our natural world.
Look at the instruments that grace the stage. No-one can pretend that music has answers to the great loss of biodiversity we’re witnessing, nor does it have the ability to solve climate change.
But music can provide a space to reconnect with our love of the natural world in our imaginations, allowing tempers to ease, minds to calm, thinking to resume and optimism to flourish.
Tickets: from £34
