Vasari Singers
[Video] Vasari Singers sing Ubi Caritas, by Maurice Duruflé
The award winning London Chamber Choir Vasari Singers, perform the beautiful motet Ubi Caritas, by Maurice Durufle.
Great British Anthems in Gramophone
The latest Vasari Singers CD, Great British Anthems, reviewed in Gramophone magazine, says “…this very satisfying selection of anthems is essential listening for anyone fond of Anglican choral music”. To read more reviews or to purchase the CD, please visit the Vasari Singers website.
Vasari Singers call for auditions
Jeremy’s world renowned chamber choir, Vasari Singers, is seeking good tenors and basses to audition to join the choir in order increase the pool of available singers for one of the group’s busiest ever seasons. To apply, visit the Vasari Singers auditions page.
Canticles and Candyfloss – Concert Review
St Peter & St Paul, Steeple Morden – 2004 Friends of SS Peter & Paul The concert by the Vasari Singers in the Parish Church on 20 November was greatly enjoyed by an appreciative audience. The first part of the programme, Canticles, as the title suggests presented more serious church music and included works by Holst […]
Best of British’ (Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten, Tavener, Dove, MacMillan, Pott) – Concert Review
St Martin in the Fields – 28th September 2004 Praise for this spectacular concert given by the choir “Take him, earth, for cherishing, in particular was really good, one of the best performances of it I’ve heard by an amateur choir.” Clare Stevens, Assistant Editor Classical Music Magazine. Best of British, September 2004 Something for everyone This […]
Pizzetti ‘Requiem’ and Kodaly ‘Missa Brevis’ – Concert Review
Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts Festival – 9th December 2003 Gloucestershire Echo Singers provide uplifting experience The current season of Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts has been unusually varied. This time it was the turn of the Vasari Singers, an excellent chamber choir from London. Directed by Jeremy Backhouse, the singers performed a wonderful programme of short new pieces, together […]
Songs for a Summer Evening – Concert Review
In the grounds of Olantigh House, Kent – August 2003 Friends of Canterbury Festival newsletter (October 2003) On a perfect August evening, 160 patrons strolled among the water channels in the landscaping and the beautifully kept lawns that sweep up to the Queen Anne style frontage of Olantigh (described more accurately in the English Heritage Register […]
Parry ‘Song of Farewell’ and Brahms ‘Ein deutsches Requiem’ – Concert Review
St John’s, Smith Square – 10th May 2003 Inspired pairing is great musical treat It might all too easily have sounded like a rehearsal. The Brahms Requiem with piano duet? It may have been this thought that kept the audience rather meagre. The repeated low F at the start certainly shocked the senses: the percussive effect […]
Françaix, Massenet, Poulenc – Concert Review
Hamstead and Highgate Festival – 14th May 2002 The FT Compared to some big cities London has relatively little arts activity in the suburbs. Smaller music festivals like the City of London, Spitalfields or the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, all cluster around the same area as the city’s main concert-halls and opera-houses – a […]
Gala Concert to celebrate 75 years of UMP – Concert Review
St John’s, Smith Square – 15th April 2002 The Evening Standard, 15th April 2002 Catalogue of successes for entente cordiale IT BEGAN as a venture to disseminate French music in the United Kingdom and what was then the British Empire. Now, 70 years after its founding, United Music Publishers has expanded its roster of composers […]