Finzi Bridges Stanford Coleridge Rachmaninoff Vaughan Williams Pearsall Poulenc Beaumont & Fletcher Elgar Herbert Britten Smart Harris Spenser Purcell Vaughan Parry Milton Campian Tchaikovsky Dowland Walton Ireland Masefield Britten Novello T S Eliot Coward W H Auden Purcell Mendelssohn Dryden Lennon/ McCartney Bunyan Debussy Herrick Liszt R L Stevenson Saint-Saëns W B Yeats Rossetti Brahms Dante Prokofiev Bronte Beethoven J S Bach Sterndale Bennett Marlowe

Summer Musicin City Churches

20–28 June 2019

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The second Summer Music in City Churches festival

Thursday 20 June 7.30pm

* Opening Concert *

Voice & VerseGorgeous choral settings of poetry, to include:Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs;

Five Mystical Songs (excerpts) Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Parry Blest Pair of Sirensand works by Finzi, Stanford, Pearsall, Elgar

and Harris

City of London ChoirThomas Humphreys, baritone Richard Gowers, organHilary Davan Wetton, conductor

St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Fore St, London EC2Y 8DATickets £20 (includes interval glass of wine)

Friday 21 June 7pm

* Early Evening Concert *

Star Cross’d LoversEnchanting songs of love and devotion by Campion, Dowland, Humfrey and Purcell

Grace Davidson, sopranoDavid Miller, lute

St Stephen Walbrook, London EC4N 8BNTickets £15

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm

Mad Dogs & EnglishmenFrom green, rolling hills to thrilling, historic London; from seaside to stage... a celebration in song of the peculiarly English way of life and love.

With music by composers including Henry Purcell, Noel Coward, Lennon and McCartney, Benjamin Britten, William Walton and Sting; words by T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, W.H. Auden, John Dryden, Don Black, William Shakespeare and more.Mary Carewe and Michael Dore, vocalistsPhilip Mayers, piano

St Mary le Bow, Cheapside, London EC2V 6AUTickets £20 (includes interval glass of wine)

Sunday 23 June 2.30pm

* Walking Tour *

Shakespeare: Take Him For All In AllThis fascinating ‘companion to Shakespeare’ tour celebrates how London shaped the life and work of William Shakespeare, on both sides of the river.

Starts at St Paul’s tube station; lasts two hours. Tickets £12 (concessions £9)

Sunday 23 June 2.30pm

Choral Evensong: One Equal Music Includes settings of texts by Donne, Bridges, Bunyan and Herrick

The Choir of St Bride’s, Fleet Street, directed by Robert Jones

St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8AU No entry charge

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Special offers for music, food and wine are available for all concerts at the Bleeding Heart Bistro or The Don Restaurant – see festival website for full details

Music, Food & Wine on a Summer’s Evening

! ! !

Join us for Magical June Evenings of Music, Food and Wine in the Heart of The City for only £29.50

(Price includes 2 course dinner and a concert ticket)

Bleeding Heart Bistro and The Don Bistro invite you to four magical summer evenings of food and music at two of the City’s most historic Churches - St Bartholomew the Great and St Stephen Walbrook -

each a gentle stroll away from your favourite bistros. There are concerts at St Bartholomew’s (five minutes walk from Bleeding Heart) on Saturday, June 23

rd and on Tuesday,

June 26th

, and at St Stephen Walbrook (three minutes from The Don) on Monday, June 25th

and Thursday, June 28th

.

We and the concert organisers, Summer Music in City Churches, hope you will take up our great value offer to enjoy two courses at one of our Bistros - before or after the concerts - for an all-inclusive price of £29.50 per head

including entry to the concert of your choice,

St Bartholomew the Great and Bleeding Heart Bistro Saturday 23

rd June, 7.30pm – After You’ve Gone: Weimar Cabaret and Prohibition Songs

Soprano Mary Carewe and Harry the Piano perform rousing cabaret songs of the post-WWI era. With music by Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and many more.

Bleeding Heart Bistro will be open for dinner from 5pm , and if it is a fine night can be taken on our sunny terrace.

Tuesday 26th

June, 7pm – All Earthly Things Above Gustav Holst’s monumental Planets Suite as rarely heard – in the composer’s own transcription for piano (four hands), played by John and Fiona York, with a new dimension of evocative poetry-reading. Actors Nickolas Grace and Rohan McCullough deliver poems illuminating the characters of the planets. There is no interval so we would suggest dinner after the performance ,when it

ends at 8.15pm.

St Stephen’s Walbrook and The Don Bistro Monday 25

th June 7.30pm – A Breath of Hope

The New London Chamber Ensemble in an enchanting programme for woodwind and piano, embracing music from home (Vaughan Williams’ Six English folksongs and Finzi’s Five bagatelles) and abroad (Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin, Lili

Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and Poulenc’s Sextet) Dinner will be available in the Don Bistro from 5pm.

Thursday 28th

June, 6pm – Farewell to Arms Music and words vividly recalling First World War experiences. Includes songs by Ivor Gurney (the poet and composer whose life was blighted by his suffering in the trenches), Gerald Finzi and John Ireland (both deeply affected by the loss of friends and

contemporaries), woven together with letters written home from the Front. Performed by tenor Richard Robbins, pianist Guy Murgatroyd and storyteller Jo Blake Cave. Again there will be no interval and dinner will be available after the performance,

which ends at 7.15. To book, please email us on bookings@bleedingheart.co.uk

– or telephone 020 7 242 2056. Book early.

The offer is open only as long as availability at both restaurants and concerts lasts. For more details about Summer Music in City Churches, www.SummerMusicCityChurches.com

Music, Food & Wine on a Summer’s Evening

! ! !

Join us for Magical June Evenings of Music, Food and Wine in the Heart of The City for only £29.50

(Price includes 2 course dinner and a concert ticket)

Bleeding Heart Bistro and The Don Bistro invite you to four magical summer evenings of food and music at two of the City’s most historic Churches - St Bartholomew the Great and St Stephen Walbrook -

each a gentle stroll away from your favourite bistros. There are concerts at St Bartholomew’s (five minutes walk from Bleeding Heart) on Saturday, June 23

rd and on Tuesday,

June 26th

, and at St Stephen Walbrook (three minutes from The Don) on Monday, June 25th

and Thursday, June 28th

.

We and the concert organisers, Summer Music in City Churches, hope you will take up our great value offer to enjoy two courses at one of our Bistros - before or after the concerts - for an all-inclusive price of £29.50 per head

including entry to the concert of your choice,

St Bartholomew the Great and Bleeding Heart Bistro Saturday 23

rd June, 7.30pm – After You’ve Gone: Weimar Cabaret and Prohibition Songs

Soprano Mary Carewe and Harry the Piano perform rousing cabaret songs of the post-WWI era. With music by Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and many more.

Bleeding Heart Bistro will be open for dinner from 5pm , and if it is a fine night can be taken on our sunny terrace.

Tuesday 26th

June, 7pm – All Earthly Things Above Gustav Holst’s monumental Planets Suite as rarely heard – in the composer’s own transcription for piano (four hands), played by John and Fiona York, with a new dimension of evocative poetry-reading. Actors Nickolas Grace and Rohan McCullough deliver poems illuminating the characters of the planets. There is no interval so we would suggest dinner after the performance ,when it

ends at 8.15pm.

St Stephen’s Walbrook and The Don Bistro Monday 25

th June 7.30pm – A Breath of Hope

The New London Chamber Ensemble in an enchanting programme for woodwind and piano, embracing music from home (Vaughan Williams’ Six English folksongs and Finzi’s Five bagatelles) and abroad (Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin, Lili

Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and Poulenc’s Sextet) Dinner will be available in the Don Bistro from 5pm.

Thursday 28th

June, 6pm – Farewell to Arms Music and words vividly recalling First World War experiences. Includes songs by Ivor Gurney (the poet and composer whose life was blighted by his suffering in the trenches), Gerald Finzi and John Ireland (both deeply affected by the loss of friends and

contemporaries), woven together with letters written home from the Front. Performed by tenor Richard Robbins, pianist Guy Murgatroyd and storyteller Jo Blake Cave. Again there will be no interval and dinner will be available after the performance,

which ends at 7.15. To book, please email us on bookings@bleedingheart.co.uk

– or telephone 020 7 242 2056. Book early.

The offer is open only as long as availability at both restaurants and concerts lasts. For more details about Summer Music in City Churches, www.SummerMusicCityChurches.com

Monday 24 June 6.45pm

* Early Evening Concert *

Let Us Garlands Bring Evocative settings of poetry by Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Brontë, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and more. To include:Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring: Five Shakespeare

Songs and settings by Ireland, Britten and Quilter

Thomas Humphreys, baritoneRaya Kostova, piano

St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall, Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AATickets £15

Tuesday 25 June 1pm

* Lunchtime Concert *All The World’s A StageRavishing piano music for a lunchtime interlude, including adaptations of two much-loved ballet scores.JS Bach/M Hess Jesus, bleibet meine FreundeBrahms‘Nach der schottischen Ballade: Edward’Liszt Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi

SonataProkofiev Romeo and JulietTchaikovsky/Pletnev The Nutcracker Suite

Nicola Losito, piano In association with the Keyboard Charitable Trust

St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Fore Street, London EC2Y 8DATickets £15

Tuesday 22 June 2.30pmThursday 24 June 2.30pm

* Walking Tour *

Echoes of ShakespeareThis tour features readings that evoke significant moments in the life and works of William Shakespeare - playwright, poet and Londoner.

Starts at St Giles-without-Cripplegate; lasts 90 mins.Tickets £9 (concessions £7)

Tuesday 25 June 7.30pm

* Evening Concert with Pre-Concert Talk *

Beethoven: Piano ConcertosBeethoven's majestic Piano Concertos no. 1 and 5 (‘Emperor’) arranged for piano and string quintet

Elizabeth Sombart, pianoPrincipals of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Fore St, London EC2Y 8DATickets £20 (includes interval glass of wine)

PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 6.45PM BY JOHN SUCHET AUTHOR OF

BEETHOVEN: THE MAN REVEALED

Wednesday 26 June 7.30pm

Elégie – Rachmaninoff, A Heart in Exile Lucy Parham’s highly acclaimed ‘Composer Portrait’, chronicling the life of Sergei Rachmaninoff through readings from letters and diaries as well as many of his best-loved works for solo piano.

Lucy Parham, pianoTim McInnerny, narrator

St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Fore St, London EC2Y 8DATickets £20 (includes interval glass of wine)

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Finzi Bridges Stanford Coleridge Rachmaninoff Vaughan Williams Pearsall Poulenc Beaumont & Fletcher Elgar Herbert Britten Smart Harris Spenser Purcell Vaughan Parry Milton Campian Tchaikovsky Dowland Walton Ireland Masefield Britten Novello T S Eliot Coward W H Auden Purcell Mendelssohn Dryden Lennon/ McCartney Bunyan Debussy Herrick Liszt R L Stevenson Saint-Saëns W B Yeats Rossetti Brahms Dante Prokofiev Bronte Beethoven J S Bach Sterndale Bennett Marlowe

Thursday 27 June 1pm

* Lunchtime Concert *

Capturing The CastleEvocative works for solo piano on a literary theme.JS Bach/Egon Petri Sheep May Safely GrazeDebussy Clair de Lune; La Cathédrale EngloutieRobert Matthew-Walker Piano Sonata ‘Hamlet’John Ireland Sarnia - an Island Sequence

Mark Bebbington, piano

St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall, Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AATickets £15

Thursday 27 June 7.30pm

* Evening Concert *Façade & Carnival Of The AnimalsSaint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals Walton Façade - an Entertainment (poems by Edith Sitwell)

Sam West, narratorBenjamin Pope, conductorLondon Mozart Players

St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall, Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AATickets £20 (includes interval glass of wine)

Friday 28 June 7.30pm

* Festival Finale *

A Midsummer Night’s SerenadeA joyful celebration of the Bard. Irresistible music for orchestra, choir and soloists, illuminated with dramatic renditions from the plays.Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s DreamWalton Henry V SuiteFinzi Love’s Labours LostVaughan Williams Serenade to Music

Tama Matheson, narratorRebecca Bottone, sopranoMaya Wheeler-Colwell, mezzo sopranoCity of London ChoirLondon Mozart PlayersHilary Davan Wetton, conductor

St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Fore Street, London EC2Y 8DATickets £20 (includes interval glass of wine)

Summer Musicin City Churches

Supported by The City of London Corporation, the Worshipful Companies of Grocers, Leathersellers, Girdlers and Barbers, and the Keyboard Charitable Trust.

All tickets are for unreserved seating. Prices include booking fees, and an interval drink where stated. Concessions and group discounts available. Concerts with interval are scheduled to last approx. 2 hours; concerts without interval will last 60-75 mins (1 hour at lunchtime). Tickets available on the door if not sold out in advance. Details correct at time of printing but may be subject to change.

For full details and booking, please visit

www.SummerMusicCityChurches.com

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