Choir
Songs of Farewell
BBC Singers
- Date night
- First-timer friendly
- Early finish
- Date
- Fri, 13 Nov 2026
- Time
- 19:30 · 2h 0m
- Venue
- St Martin in the Fields
- City
- London
- Conductor
- Krista Audere
- Tickets
- from £15
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Summary
Krista Audere leads the BBC Singers at St Martin-in-the-Fields in a programme pairing Parry’s Songs of Farewell with choral works by Palestrina and Caroline Shaw.
Why it's fantastic
Parry composed these moving choral reflections as he watched his students depart for the trenches of the First World War. Pairing these heart-wrenching English classics with the intricate, shimmering vocal textures of contemporary composer Caroline Shaw makes for a deeply atmospheric evening that spans five centuries of vocal music.
Programme
- 01Caroline Shaw - Companion Planting
- 02Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas
- 03Hubert Parry - Songs of Farewell
