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2018-19 season trailer | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Friday 2 November 2018

Individual or society? Head or heart? Conform or rebel?
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  • History and Theory of Music
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Rehearsing Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Thursday 28 November 2019

Leader Margaret Faultless gets her hands on the original concert programme for the premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis at Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910.
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  • Composers

Lagrime Mie, Barbara Strozzi

Friday 4 January 2019

Soprano Mary Bevan and theorbo player Elizabeth Kenny perform Lagrime Mie by the famed Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi.
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  • The Night Shift

Chacony in G minor by Henry Purcell | The Night Shift

Friday 13 October 2017

See some footage of our Night Shift at the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham.
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  • The Night Shift

Vierdanck | The Night Shift

Friday 25 May 2018

Our performance of Vierdanck's Capriccio for 3 violins at The Night Shift in Shadwell.
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Mozart Horn Concerto No.4, Rondo - on the Natural Horn

Sunday 15 April 2018

Watch our Principal Horn, Roger Montgomery, perform the Rondo from Mozart's Horn Concerto No.4 on a natural horn at The Night Shift.
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  • The Night Shift

Season Trailer 2019 | The Night Shift

Monday 19 March 2018

Classical music, minus the rules.
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Soprano Louise Alder on Handel's Semele

Monday 16 October 2017

Soprano Louise Alder chats about her role as Semele in Handel's steamy opera in which she falls in love with the god Jupiter.
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  • Bach the Universe and Everything

Bach, the Universe and Everything

Monday 30 October 2017

Marvel at our extraordinary universe and the music of Bach with ‘Bach, the Universe, and Everything’, our new Sunday morning series of music and science for inquiring and curious minds.
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  • History and Theory of Music
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Double Bass Bow: French or German?

Monday 13 November 2017

Double bass Margaret Urquhart shows how the German bow makes Handel's fast and frantic string-crossings possible.

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