Singing the London Underground: The Exultate Singers at St George's

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 27 February 2012

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 25 February 2012

Bednall, Souls of the Righteous

Lauridsen, Mid-Winter Songs

Tallis, Spem in Alium

Purcell, Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, Z 58B

Vaughan Williams, Mass in G minor (Excerpts)

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Rutter conducts Rutter: Colston Hall's Summer Gala Concert

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 20th June

This was, by no doubt, the largest ensemble on stage at Colston Hall this season with five choirs and an orchestra that took over the stage.

***11

Exultate Singers celebrate the splendours of Venice

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 29th March

The Exultate choir played alongside His Majesties Sagbutts for an evening of music from St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, some of which hadn't been heard for over 400 years.

***11

The divine and the worldly: Exultate Singers at St George's Bristol

David Fay, 23rd February

Choral concerts often have programmes that read like compilation CDs. I don’t mean this negatively: there are countless reasons why a greater number of contrasting pieces is required – timbral, textual, temporal, contextual, historical, and so on.

****1

Exultate Singers in Roxanna Panufnik Premières

Paul Kilbey, 19th May

Contemporary religious music can seem to exist in a different world to the rest of contemporary music, and rarely since Messiaen was in his prime has there been much evidence of it as a really progressive wing of composition.

***11

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

***11

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.