Tickets £15 on the door, or £12.50 in advance. Under-18s free.
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A feast of English songs with Ellen Smith (soprano) and Paul Clark (piano), and the famous 'Serenade to Music' by Vaughan-Williams, celebrating the Queen's official Birthday.
Ellen Smith and Paul Clark present a sequence of songs by Purcell, Quilter, Gurney, Ireland, Warlock and others, followed by the 'Serenade to Music', a work that moved Rachmaninov to tears at its première.
Composed for 16 solo voices and orchestra, this smaller-scale performance will feature 12 soloists and piano quintet. The players are: Marie-France Ouellet and Jane Gomm (violins), Martin Bloor (viola) and Ruth Beedham (cello), with members of the King Charles Singers and directed by Rupert Preston Bell.
Ellen Smith was a postgraduate Early Music MMus student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, having studied classics at University College London. She is in demand as both singer and harpist at many locations throughout London and Southern England, for concerts and private functions, particularly wedding ceremonies and receptions.
"Come ho! and wake Diana with a hymn; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, And draw her home with music."
Photo: Cantley Marsh by Pamela Abbott