Easter 2026 - Concerts

‘Not from the past you'll come, but from that deep
Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:’ (Idyll - Siegfried Sassoon)

The VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra presented the online premiere of Composer-in-Residence, Taylor Scott Davis’ new Requiem as Decca Classics simultaneously released the work on new album, i carry your heart. Featuring poetry by Siegfried Sassoon (Idyll) within the traditional mass setting, the Requiem offers a strong hand of hope within its luminous music - messaging for our time.

Including texts by Nathaniel Bellows, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is a hymn for the voiceless and the discounted - LIVE From London was thrilled to present Phoenix Chorale’s multi-sensory setting of the work.

Barnaby Smith and the Illyria Consort gifted an intimate programme of Bach Cantatas tracing the full architecture of human emotion, whilst APOLLO5 returned with The Evening Primrose, showcasing its new line-up of singers and marking the start of an exciting new chapter for the group.

Completing the festival was Bach's iconic Mass in B minor returning by popular demand. Conductor Barnaby Smith, soloists Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, Jeremy Budd and Matthew Brook are joined by VOCES8 and the Academy of Ancient Music (guest led by Rachel Podger) for a performance which was hailed as “sublime” and “Bach in all his glory”.