Temple Music
2011
www.templemusic.org
020 7427 5641
Monday 14 February
6.45pm-8pm
Temple Church
Concert tickets: £20, £15, £10
Concert and canapé reception: £50
Concert, canapé reception
and dinner: £100
Crispian Steele-Perkins
trumpet
Ian le Grice organ
Gala recital for organ
and trumpet
The eminent trumpeter, Crispian SteelePerkins, is joined by Ian le Grice, one
time chorister in the Temple Church
Choir and the Church’s assistant organist,
in a programme of popular classics to
include music by Stanley, Mozart and
Gershwin.
“Anyone who has seen Crispian SteelePerkins in recital will know how
persuasively he communicates his art,
often fortified by instructive and
entertaining verbal interludes.”
Gramophone Magazine
The post-concert dinner will conclude
with some light-hearted musical fun
from tonight’s performers.
Thursday 7 April,
6.45pm-8.30pm
Temple Church
£22.50, £17.50, £12.50
The Endellion
String Quartet
Haydn Quartet ‘How Do You Do’,
Opus 33 no 5
Panufnik The Audience
(London premiere)
Narrated by Janet Suzman
Schubert Quartet ‘Death and
the Maiden’, no 14 D810
The Endellion String Quartet will present
the London premiere of Roxanna
Panufnik and Wendy Cope’s piece for
quartet and narrator, The Audience,
described in a recent review as “a
riotously funny and insightful piece”,
alongside two greats of the string
quartet repertoire: Haydn’s Opus 33 no 5
and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden
quartet.
“In the past two decades only one British
ensemble - the Endellion Quartet - has
consistently met international standards.
This superb classical quartet is playing as
well as any in the world at present and
its interpretations have a rare
intellectual penetration” The Cambridge
Companion to the String Quartet
In aid of the Temple Church
Organ Appeal
For further details and information about our concerts, or notification of any changes
in the programme, please visit www.templemusic.org or call 0207 427 5641.
Tuesday 17 May
7.30pm-9.30pm
Middle Temple Hall
£45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5
Thursday 12 May
6.45pm-8pm
The Temple Church
£25, £20, £15
Jacques Imbrailo baritone
Julius Drake piano
Temple Song 2011
The Temple Singers
James Vivian director
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
“It is a truly tremendous piece of art
which moves the entire being in a way
little else does.” Clara Schumann’s words
to Brahms after seeing a copy of Ein
Deutsches Requiem transcribed for piano.
Considered by many as being his
magnum opus, Brahms’ Requiem points
to a vision of peace and hope for the
living, rather than the salvation of the
dead. Brahms carefully chose the texts
himself (it is interesting to note that the
texts do not name Jesus Christ) and the
resulting Requiem took eleven years to
complete. Many of the movements are in
the anthem repertoire of most choirs,
the most famous being the sublime
setting of Psalm 84, ‘How lovely are thy
dwellings fair’. At this concert, the
Temple Singers will perform the original
German version, accompanied by
Brahms’ own version for piano duet.
Vaughan Williams Songs of travel
Liszt Tre sonetti di petrarca S270
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen
Butterworth A Shropshire lad
Winner of the prestigious Audience Prize
in the 2007 Cardiff Singer of the World
contest, South African baritone Jacques
Imbrailo comes to Middle Temple Hall for
a recital with Julius Drake. While still a
member of the Jette Parker Young
Artists Scheme at the Royal Opera House,
Imbrailo shone as Benjamin Britten’s
Owen Wingrave and in June 2010 he
created the first ever Billy Budd at
Glyndebourne to great acclaim.
For further details and information about our concerts, or notification of any changes
in the programme, please visit www.templemusic.org or call 0207 427 5641.
Thursday 30 June
6.45pm-8pm
The Temple Church
£16, £12, £8
Wednesday 8 June
6.45pm- 8pm
The Temple Church
£20, £15, £10
The Holst Singers
Stephen Layton director
Pizetti Requiem
Palestrina Mass
The Holst
Singers and
Stephen Layton
return to the
Temple Church
with two giants
of the Italian
choral
repertoire.
Palestrina’s
groundbreaking
Missa Papae
Marcelli is one
of the most
important and
beautiful works of the 16th century.
Almost 400 years later, Pizzetti composed
his monumental and romantic setting of
the Requiem for double choir. Together
these two magnificent works will make a
concert that is perfectly suited to the
serenity of the Temple Church.
The Temple Church Choir
James Vivian director
Parry I was glad
Purcell Thy word is a lantern
Duruflé Four motets
Luboff (arr.) Deep River
Adelmann (arr.) Ev’ry time I feel
Warrell (arr.) Swing low, Sweet chariot
Tippett (arr.) Steal Away
Vaughan Williams Full fathom five
The loud-capp’d towers
Over hill, over dale
The acclaimed choir of the Temple
Church performs a varied programme of
choral music based around different
arrangements of familiar spirituals –
including Deep River and Swing low,
Sweet chariot – and Vaughan Williams’
beautiful settings of three Shakespeare
texts – Full fathom five, The cloud-capp’d
towers, and Over hill, over dale.
For further details and information about our concerts, or notification of any changes
in the programme, please visit www.templemusic.org or call 0207 427 5641.
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Wednesday 13 July
6.45pm-8pm
The Temple Church
£20, £15
Thomas Trotter organ
Farewell to the Organ
Thomas Trotter bids Farewell to the
Organ before the Temple Church’s
magnificent instrument is dismantled for
restoration. His programme will include
an enjoyable cross-section of the organ
literature (full details will be listed on
the website at a later date). Trotter is an
organist with an enviable international
reputation and in 2002 was awarded the
Royal Philharmonic Society’s prestigious
award for Best Instrumentalist, previous
winners have included András Schiff,
Itzhak Perlman and Julian Bream. He
succeeded the distinguished organist of
the the Temple Church, Sir George
Thalben-Ball, as Organist to the City of
Birmingham.
There will be projection screens so that
the organist will be visible from the
seating in both sides of the Church.
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Friday 14 October
7.30pm-9.30pm
Middle Temple Hall
£45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5
Monday 25 July
7.30pm-9.30pm
Middle Temple Hall
£45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Temple Song 2011
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Temple Song 2011
Tickets on sale on 1 March
Celebrated British mezzo-soprano Alice
Coote continues the Temple Song series
in Middle Temple Hall with a highlyanticipated recital of French songs,
including Fauré, Chausson, Hahn and
Poulenc. The Daily Telegraph described
Coote’s voice as 'beautiful, to be sure,
but, more importantly, it thrills you to
the marrow.'
Schumann Widmung
Die Lotosblume
Hochländisches Wiegenlied
Schumann Frauenliebe undLeben
Britten A Charm of Lullabies
Bennett A history of the
Thé Dansant
Howells Come sing and dance
King David
Gurney By a Bierside
Sleep
Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sarah
Connolly performs a song recital in the
stunning setting of Middle Temple Hall,
to include songs by British composers
Howells, Gurney, Britten and Bennett,
alongside Schumann lieder. “Connolly
would (and should) now grace any stage
in the world. She sings nothing that you
don’t believe - not a false, disingenuous
note anywhere.” The Independent
For further details and information about our concerts, or notification of any changes
in the programme, please visit www.templemusic.org or call 0207 427 5641.
Thursday 10 November
7.30pm-9.30pm
Middle Temple Hall
£45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5
Tuesday 6 December
7.30pm-9.30pm
Middle Temple Hall
£45, £35, £25, £15, £10, £5
James Gilchrist tenor
Julius Drake piano
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Julius Drake piano
Temple Song 2011
Temple Song 2011
Britten John Donne Sonnets
Schubert Heine settings
Britten Winter Words
Programme to include Brahms, Debussy
and Poulenc
Acclaimed lyric tenor James Gilchrist
joins pianist Julius Drake in Middle
Temple Hall in November for a recital of
Britten and Schubert songs. Britten set
the sonnets by John Donne soon after he
had returned from a tour of German
concentration camps with the violinist
Yehudi Menuhin. This haunting song
cycle certainly seems to capture the
bleak intensity of that experience
“James Gilchrist’s bright, ringing tenor
voice is compelling from the first note,
but it’s the range of
expression and
unaffected
musicality that
leave the lasting
impression.”
BBC Music Magazine
The 2011 Temple Song series concludes
by welcoming back celebrated British
soprano Carolyn Sampson to the Temple
after her outstanding recital in the 2008
Festival. She will perform songs by
Brahms and Debussy, as well as music by
Purcell, arranged by Benjamin Britten.
“… Carolyn Sampson's pure soprano
cossets the words, savouring their
expressive implications, relishing their
shifts of rhythm and subtly sighing with
bliss, yearning or heartache....” The Daily
Telegraph
Carolyn Sampson image: Annelies van der Vegt
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in the programme, please visit www.templemusic.org or call 0207 427 5641.
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