@elysiansingers
The Elysian Singers, based in London under musical director Sam Laughton, is one of the UKβs leading chamber choirs. Beauty for Ashes, our latest album on Signum Classics, premieres 6 works by women, 6 by men - and has won 5-star reviews.
You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. π
What a joy to play to a packed out @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social tonight with Elgarβs transcendent The Dream of Gerontius. Thank to everyone who came and to our magnificent soloists Thomas Elwin, Victoria Simmonds and Gareth Brynmor John and all 59 orchestral players. A night to remember.
βThis,β wrote Edward Elgar, βis the best of me.β
Iβve always wanted to sing this deeply felt masterpiece of life and death with orchestra, soloists and chorus singing the roles of friends, demons and angels.
@elysiansingers.bsky.social
Sat Oct 4.β¨Book now!
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/the-dr...
To celebrate 25 glorious years of working with our music director Sam Laugton, weβre singing Elgarβs devout, epic survey of life, death and the hereafter, The Dream of Gerontius in its 125th year!
Saturday 4 October, 7.30pm
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/the-dr...
To celebrate 25 glorious years of working with our music director Sam Laugton, weβre singing Elgarβs devout, epic survey of life, death and the hereafter, The Dream of Gerontius in its 125th year!
Saturday 4 October, 7.30pm
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/the-dr...
Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The vivid word-painting in Handelβs Great Escape oratorio Israel in Egypt is even more dynamic (and shorter) than his Messiah.
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabrielβs, Pimlico.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theel...
Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The vivid word-painting in Handelβs Great Escape oratorio Israel in Egypt is even more dynamic (and shorter) than his Messiah.
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabrielβs, Pimlico.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theel...
Thanks to everyone who came to hear us sing our all @willtoddmusic.bsky.social programme including Willβs genuinely extraordinary Requiem for choir, soprano and electric guitarist. Susan Young and @thomasgraymusic were magnificent and watching you all, rapt, as we sang was a thrill.
Thrilled to sing Will Toddβs unique Requiem with @elysiansingers.bsky.social on Friday May 9. Ricocheting between tenderly shimmering and utterly wild, itβs scored for choir in multi-part harmony, soprano solo and electric guitar. A total one-off. Hear it live! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/blo...
@willtoddmusic.bsky.social
I'm singing this and it's bloody gorgeous.
Come to the concert!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/blo...
This lush music is a joy to sing. Have a listen... and now imagine hearing it live, shimmering into space. We're singing it on Friday 9 May in an all-Will Todd concert including his wild and wonderful Requiem for choir, soprano & electric guitar.
Ticket link below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elId...
Thanks to everyone who came to our concert on Saturday at York Late Music Festival in honour of Arvo PΓ€rtβs 90th Birthday β in the wonderful acoustic of the York Unitarian Chapel.
Next up, the haunting Requiem by @willtoddmusic.bsky.social
This Saturday at Late Music the @elysiansingers.bsky.social will give the first performance of 'The World's Last Night', a setting of John Donne. I've written about it for the Late Music website with all the details of Saturday's performance. Come along if you can! latemusic.org/the-worlds-l...
On our recent 5-star-reviewed @elysiansingers.bsky.social album we premiered the beautifully chilly Feathers by @david-lancaster.bsky.social. Thrilled now to be premiering his setting of John Donne's The World's Last Night:
Sat 1 March
York Late Music Festival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xzP...
On our new 5-star-reviewed disc we premiered the beautifully chilly Feathers by @david-lancaster.bsky.social. Thrilled now to be premiering his setting of John Donne's The World's Last Night + music by PΓ€rt, Whitacre, EΕ‘envalds & more.
Sat 1 March
York Late Music Festival.
youtu.be/0xzPEzcnj6c?...
Our 1 March concert at York Late Music Festival features the premiere of a piece by @david-lancaster.bsky.social following his ethereal Feathers on our Beauty for Ashes album.
Also, Whitacreβs stunning setting of When David Heard in 18-part harmony +βmusic by Arvo PΓ€rt. latemusic.org/product/elys...
Our concert on Thursday features fresh thoughts on Christmas classics including this luminous arrangement by Bob Chilcott. Join us at St.Giles-in-the-Fields at 7.30pm for programme of shimmering and shiveringly beautiful seasonal music.
Link for tickets below.
youtu.be/95UHIigQAJc?...
Supper awaits me for after tonightβs rehearsal for our Christmas concert on Thursday at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2H 8LG.
Canβt promise to feed you but there is deliciousness via Bob Chilcott, Judith Weir, Richard Allain, The Swingle Singers, Roderick Williams and heaps more. Treat yourself!
Our concert on Thursday features fresh thoughts on Christmas classics including this luminous arrangement by Bob Chilcott. Join us at St.Giles-in-the-Fields at 7.30pm for programme of shimmering and shiveringly beautiful seasonal music.
Link for tickets below.
youtu.be/95UHIigQAJc?...
My next concert has some seriously delicious music in multiple-part harmony. Our Messiah last Sunday sold out so book now to avoid disappointment.
Go on: treat yourself!
Everybody needs a fabulous Christmas concert! And our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert will be fabulous indeed. Come along, and I guarantee youβll leave smiling and with a bunch of festive earworms
Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here:
tickettailor.com/events/theelysβ¦
From John Tavenerβs tender The Lamb to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas via shimmering modern classics by Judith Weir, The Swingles and this beauty by Bob Chilcott from one of our albums.
@elysiansingers.bsky.social Dec 19
St.Giles-in-the-Fields
London WC2H 8LG
7.30pm
youtu.be/_2HL8AOyE-A?...