Category Archives: Programmes

Friday 13 October 2023 Vivamus presents music from the sixteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries in a church built in a fourteenth-century idiom and consecrated in 1850. A musical framing device is provided by the great Mass for Four Voices (1592/3) of William Byrd, studded with references to matters celestial – look out for the imitativeContinue reading “Programme: Celestial Fire”

Saturday 13 May 2023 Vivamus presents English music from the 17th, 18th, 20th and 21st centuries, including a London premiere. In the week following the Coronation of King Charles III, the concert opens with Handel’s most-celebrated coronation anthem Zadok the Priest, and includes works by William Harris, Henry Purcell and John Tavener, as well asContinue reading “Programme: Faire is the Heaven”

Thursday 15 December 2022 Join Vivamus for a selection of festive favourites by famed American, British and German composers as well as anonymous bearers of musical traditions extending back to the eighth century. The concert will also feature organ works and a number of audience carols. Programme Zion hört die Wächter singen (J. S. Bach,Continue reading “Programme: Nowell, Nowell”

Friday 4 November 2022 In tonight’s concert, which nominally contains only two works, Vivamus presents music from the 18th, 19th and 21st centuries and a world premiere. In a programme just over an hour long, we start with a composition born in the fusion of a Bach keyboard masterpiece and a contemporary violin improvisation. WeContinue reading “Programme: A German Requiem / O Vos Omnes”