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A Choral Pilgramage  
 
 
 
 
UK Concerts
Date Venue & booking info Programme
February - November 2009

Nationwide

Full tour details are listed on the Choral Pilgrimage pages of this website.

The Choral Pilgrimage 2009

Purcell & MacMillan 'Bright Orb of Harmony'

Handel Coronation Anthems

12 August 2009

7.00pm

London BBC Prom 36

Royal Albert Hall

SOLD OUT

This performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and will be televised on BBC Two on 15 August, 8.45pm

Handel Coronation Anthems

The Handel anniversary celebrations continue with this performance by the choir & orchestra of The Sixteen, joined by soprano soloist and Sixteen alumnus, Carolyn Sampson

3 September 2009

5.45pm

Edinburgh International Festival

Greyfriars Kirk

SOLD OUT

Bach Cantatas

A consort performance of Bach Cantatas 9 and 146 as part of the Bach at Greyfriars series.

4 September 2009

8.00pm

Edinburgh International Festival

Usher Hall

Box Office: 0131 228 1155

Purcell The Fairy Queen

Purcell's version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream offers an extraordinary variety of music.

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers conductor

Soloists include:

Gillian Keith

Iestyn Davies

James Gilchrist

Jonathan Best

3 October 2009

7.00pm

Birmingham Town Hall

www.thsh.co.uk

Box Office: 0121 780 3333

Handel Messiah

with soloists:

Gillian Keith soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
mezzo soprano
John Mark Ainsley
tenor
Chris Purves
baritone

4 November 2009

7.15pm

Sevenoaks Walthamstow Hall

Tickets on sale from 7 September

Box Office: 01732 451 334

An Immortal Legacy

Spanning the centuries with inspiring choral music by Tallis, Gibbons, Britten, Tippett and MacMillan.

10 December 2009

7.30pm

London Queen Elizabeth Hall

Box Office: 0871 663 2583

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Christmas Concert on the Southbank

Join us for our annual Christmas concert in a programme which looks at the way composers reflect the festive season from Advent through to Holy Innocents.

Sing carols with The Sixteen after the concert - The Front Room, 9.30pm

3 April 2010

8.00pm

London Queen Elizabeth Hall

Box Office: 0871 663 2583

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Series Discount:
Book 2 concerts and save 10%
Book 3 concerts and save 15%

(Not available on Premium seats)

Sacred Music

Based on the highly acclaimed television series shown last year on BBC Four, Sacred Music takes the audience on an awe-inspiring journey through the landmarks of European sacred music. Mixing live performance with original television footage Harry Christophers develops the themes of his television series in a unique group of performances.

The Gothic Revolution

Harry Christophers and a small ensemble of singers present the music of Léonin and Pérotin. This investigation into the very early development of Western sacred music, from simple plainchant to the glorious world of polyphony, concentrates on Paris in the 12th and 13th centuries and the most famous of all mediaeval music manuscripts, the Magnus Liber.

4 April 2010

8.00pm

London Queen Elizabeth Hall

Box Office: 0871 663 2583

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Series Discount:
Book 2 concerts and save 10%
Book 3 concerts and save 15%

(Not available on Premium seats)

Sacred Music

Based on the highly acclaimed television series shown last year on BBC Four, Sacred Music takes the audience on an awe-inspiring journey through the landmarks of European sacred music. Mixing live performance with original television footage Harry Christophers develops the themes of his television series in a unique group of performances.

Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

Tallis and Byrd were composers at the very centre of England's musical Renaissance in the Tudor Age. The film elements expose the often brutal uncertainties of the life of a church musician in the 16th century, while the live performance presents the intense beauty of music such as Tallis' Miserere and Byrd's Quomodo cantabimus.

5 April 2010

5.00pm

London Queen Elizabeth Hall

Box Office: 0871 663 2583

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Series Discount:
Book 2 concerts and save 10%
Book 3 concerts and save 15%

(Not available on Premium seats)

Sacred Music

Based on the highly acclaimed television series shown last year on BBC Four, Sacred Music takes the audience on an awe-inspiring journey through the landmarks of European sacred music. Mixing live performance with original television footage Harry Christophers develops the themes of his television series in a unique group of performances.

Palestrina and the Popes

Palestrina's work is considered by many to be unsurpassed in its spiritual perfection, but running underneath it is the turbulent story of the counter-Reformation, which would have a dramatic impact on the composer's life and music. The glorious architecture and art of the High Renaissance, viewed through the combined prisms of film and live music complete a compelling picture of this golden age of sacred music.