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Easter 2026

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

This Easter, LIVE From London returns with a festival celebrating life, love and renewal. Pairing old favourites with new premieres and matching new poetry within traditional text settings, the festival seeks to refresh our wintered spirits.

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Includes tickets for all concerts in the Easter 2026 festival.
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VOCES8 & Academy of Ancient Music

Concert 1

First broadcast during the Spring 2021 LIVE From London season at the height of the pandemic, this acclaimed performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor returns for Easter 2026, five years after its debut. Filmed at St Bartholomew the Great, London.

VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra

Concert 2

Filmed exclusively for LIVE From London this performance presents the new Requiem by Taylor Scott Davis, Composer-in-Residence at the VOCES8 Foundation, captured in the resonant surroundings of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb.

APOLLO5

Concert 3

In The Evening Primrose, APOLLO5 traces a journey from Lenten reflection to the renewal of spring, weaving Britten’s flower miniatures with sacred works by Duruflé and Chilcott, madrigals by Byrd and Tomkins, Scottish folk song, and lighter moments from Finzi to These Foolish Things.

Barnaby Smith & Illyria Consort

Concert 4

Barnaby Smith appears as countertenor with the Illyria Consort under Bojan Čičić in a programme pairing three Bach solo cantatas with the radiant Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major.

Phoenix Chorale

Concert 5

Originally created for Earth Day, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, with libretto by Nathaniel Bellows, is both elegy and celebration of the natural world.

Save 20% on subscriptions to Gramophone and Choir & Organ, the leading magazines for fans of choral music! Enter code LIVE26 at the checkout to claim your discount. CLICK HERE to take advantage.

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Season Ticket

Season Ticket

Includes tickets for all concerts in the Easter 2026 festival.
The Season Ticket offers the best value to access all concerts.

VOCES8 / Academy of Ancient Music

Concert 1

First broadcast during the Spring 2021 LIVE From London season at the height of the pandemic, this acclaimed performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor returns for Easter 2026, five years after its debut. Filmed at St Bartholomew the Great, London.

VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra

Concert 2

Filmed exclusively for LIVE From London this performance presents the new Requiem by Taylor Scott Davis, Composer-in-Residence at the VOCES8 Foundation, captured in the resonant surroundings of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb.

APOLLO5

Concert 3

In The Evening Primrose, APOLLO5 traces a journey from Lenten reflection to the renewal of spring, weaving Britten’s flower miniatures with sacred works by Duruflé and Chilcott, madrigals by Byrd and Tomkins, Scottish folk song, and lighter moments from Finzi to These Foolish Things.

Barnaby Smith & Illyria Consort

Concert 4

Barnaby Smith appears as countertenor with the Illyria Consort under Bojan Čičić in a programme pairing three Bach solo cantatas with the radiant Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major.

Phoenix Chorale

Concert 5

Originally created for Earth Day, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, with libretto by Nathaniel Bellows, is both elegy and celebration of the natural world.

Festival Programme

The VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra present the online premiere of Composer-in-Residence, Taylor Scott Davis’ new Requiem as Decca Classics simultaneously releases 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 is thrilled to present Phoenix Chorale’s multi-sensory setting of the work. Barnaby Smith and the Illyria Consort gift an intimate programme of Bach Cantatas tracing the full architecture of human emotion, whilst APOLLO5 returns 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 is 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”.

Save 20% on subscriptions to Gramophone and Choir & Organ, the leading magazines for fans of choral music! Enter code LIVE26 at the checkout to claim your discount. CLICK HERE to take advantage.

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