14th July 2012
Summer Concert, St. George’s Bloomsbury – Purcell and Monteverdi
Featuring a selection of sacred and secular motets and madrigals by Monteverdi and Purcell, this programme will showcase the choir’s polyphonic talents as we gabble through the tongue-twisters in Latin, Italian and English. Read More / Buy Tickets

6th September 2012
Late Night Concert, St. Martin-in-the-Fields – Allegri’s Misereri
Against a backdrop of candlelight and the rare quiet of late-night London, we shall be performing Allegri’s soaring Miserere and other unashamedly reflective pieces sure to give goose bumps to the skin and shivers through the heart.

11th November 2012
Alumni Concert, St. John’s Smith Square – Mozart C Minor Mass
Vivamus is 10! In celebration of this milestone we are holding one of our largest concerts to date, the centrepiece of which will be Mozart’s C minor Mass performed by Vivamus members past and present. Expect sublime music, an expanded choir and – where appropriate – a massive sound!

11th December 2012
Royal Academy Carol Service
Once again we have been chosen as the Royal Academy’s preferred choir for their private carol service for RA members.

22nd December 2012
Christmas Concert, St. Martin-in-the-Fields
It’s Christmas! Carols, lessons, anthems and Dylan Thomas – everything you’d expect from the St Martin’s Carol Concert (book early for tickets)

Spring 2013
Vivamus shall be appearing in the Brandenburg Choral Festival and then performing at St Martin’s for Holy Week, most likely with the stalwart Fauré’s Requiem

Summer 2013
The choir has once again been invited to be the choir-in-residence at Lincoln Cathedral for part of July 2013. Our semi-annual sing the very best of sacred music, there’ll be canticles galore as we enjoy Evensongs, Matins and Eucharists in one of England’s finest cathedrals.

The concert will start with Monteverdi’s rousing Cantate Domino, a sharp contrast to the following piece, Lamento d’Arianna, his setting of Ariadne’s sorrowful exhortations to Theseus after his abandonment of her on the island of Naxos. As the lamentations die away we are introduced to Purcell’s first work of the evening, his Fantasia in D upon a Ground for 3 Violins and Continuo.

The central piece of the concert is the titular Raise, Raise the Voice, Purcell’s Ode for St Cecelia’s Day, for soprano, bass, chorus, 2 violins and continuo. Although scored for fewer parts than many of his other works, this Ode exhibits a lively and ingenious symphony that at one point underpins glorious conversation between the two solo voices, at another provides soaring descant over the chorus’s exultations.

Purcell’s word-painting is also celebrated in his more prayerful Anthems that will form much of the second half of the concert, before ending with two more sacred works, showcasing Monteverdi at his finest in Christe, adoramus te and Beatus vir.

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“great music well performed in a wonderful venue”

One of our latest concerts has been reviewed by the excellent Bachtrack website and provides a very fair account of the evening.

Programme
Bryd – Mass for Five Voices
Cornysh – Magnificat
Tippett – Dance, Clarion Air
With works selected from the Royal Collections for Elizabeth I (Triumphs of Oriana) and Elizabeth II (A Garland for the Queen)

This concert was part of the Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival.