Our Summer 2023 Trailer

Summer 2023

Filmed in beautiful locations around the world and accompanied by suitcases bursting with exclusive performances, LIVE From London’s tenth festival offered you ‘a drop of golden sun’.

Host ensemble VOCES8 featured in four of the nine concerts and began by taking you exclusively behind-the-scenes on the group’s European summer tour. Barnaby Smith lead VOCES8 and members of its Foundation Choir in a Byrd 400 celebration which included his Mass for Five Voices sung by Apollo5. Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir was the centerpoint of VOCES8 and its VOCES8 Scholars’ concert filmed from idyllic Milton Abbey. The group’s final concert sprinkling of Stardust paired Britten (arr. Imogen Holst) Rejoice in the Lamb conducted by Barnaby Smith, alongside the world premiere of To Sing of Love, a new concerto written for Jack Liebeck and The VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra by popular American composer Taylor Scott Davis.

Internationally renowned festival newcomers included Wishful Singing in concert with composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo, Tafelmusik performed Mozart and Haydn with star Baroque violinist Rachel Podger, and Chamber Choir Ireland conducted by Eamonn Dougan, unveiled a beautiful programme of Sir James MacMillan and his influences, O Radiant Dawn - prefaced by an interview with the composer himself. Making a requested return, I Fagiolini sang of The Seasons in its engagingly dramatic programme Au Naturel, and Mary Bevan and Davina Clarke presented a Handel concert of Sweet Stillness from their recent album release.

Nine concerts featuring six centuries of stunning repertoire, filmed in locations from Toronto to Denmark, Dorset and Dublin – LIVE From London Summer 2023 almost certainly included ‘a few of your favourite things’.