Serenade to Music by Candlelight

15 February 2024
St Martin in the Fields Church

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15 February
Thursday
St Martin in the Fields Church

In this special performance the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble and St Martin’s Voices come together to explore Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music and Five Mystical Songs, alongside works by Dieterich Buxtehude and Pulitzer-prize winner Caroline Shaw. To the Hands was composed by Shaw in response to Buxtehude’s seventeenth century masterpiece Membra Jesu Nostri, reflecting on modern day crises of global suffering and the search for refuge.

Programme

Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs 
Buxtehude – Ad manus from ‘Membra Jesu nostri’
Caroline Shaw – To the hands
Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music

Performers
St Martin’s Voices

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Andrew Earis conductor