We are really looking forward to performing ‘A Sea Symphony’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams on 22 April at St James Muswell Hill. Find out more about this fascinating work and discover what makes it such a joy to sing with this guide to the piece from BBC Music Magazine: https://www.classical-music.com/…/guide-vaughan…/ […]
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“The plan of the work is symphonic rather than narrative or dramatic…The words as well as the music are treated symphonically…the orchestra has an equal share with the chorus and soloists in carrying out the musical ideas.” (Vaughan Williams’s Programme Note for the first London performance, February, 1913.)
George Fridrich Handel (1685-1759): Handel spent the years 1706-1710 in Italy, initially at the invitation of Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici, whom he had met during the latter’s visit to Hamburg in 1705. Despite Handel’s censures on Italian music during their conversations, Ferdinando was sufficiently impressed by his musicality to invite […]