Forthcoming concerts and events
Brandenburg Choral Festival of London
Saturday 16th November: 7.30 p.m.
St Mary Moorfields: 4-5 Eldon St, London EC2M 7LS
Conductor Timothy Salter
Harp Isabel Marie Eberhardt
From darkness to light:
from a brooding dark motet by Brahms to a vision of heavenly delight by Byrd and from a Lament by Seiber to Salter’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s words of hope.
Tickets £25 (premium), £20 (unreserved), child £5 Box office: CLICK HERE
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Saturday 22nd March 2025
St Stephen’s, Dulwich
Further details to follow.
Past concerts and events
Thursday 13th June 2024
Ognisko Polskie
55 Princes Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 2PN
The Ionian Singers
Featuring Michał Ćwiżewicz (violin) and Timothy Salter (conductor, piano)
An extraordinarily rich and varied programme, spanning English music from the late Romantic age to choral songs by Elgar and contemporary British works. One of the highlights was Ave Maria for violin and chorus by the Norwegian composer Knut Nystedt.
Saturday 24th February 2024, 2 p.m. – 6.p.m.
Come and Sing
St Peter’s Church, Vauxhall, 310 Kennington Lane,
London SE11 5HY
Following successful and enjoyable events in recent years, we are planning another afternoon of music. We will be exploring a selection of pieces by famous and less-famous composers, under the expert eye (and ear) of our conductor, Timothy Salter.
If you love choral singing, why not join us? Come and enjoy singing something a little bit different, with music by composers such as Blow, Byrd, Elgar, Holst, Phillips, Stanford, Stravinsky, Wolf, and of course some of Timothy Salter’s delightful folk song arrangements.
There will be tea, coffee and cake to sustain you. All you need to bring is enthusiasm, an open mind and reasonable sight-reading skills.
Registration fee £25.00. Further details from info@ioniansingers.co.uk, or 07932 766513
Saturday 9th March 2024
St Giles’ Church, Camberwell
St Giles’ Church: Camberwell Church Street, Camberwell, SE5 8RB.
Leo Melvin – cellist
Timothy Salter – conductor
The Ionian Singers with their conductor Timothy Salter are joined by the cellist Leo Melvin in a programme that journeys far afield in time and location: English madrigals from the early 17th century, little-known choral music from 19th century Russia – Anton Arensky (three pieces for cello and chorus) and César Cui – 19th and 20th century music from England – including Stanford, Parry and Holst (in the 150th anniversary year of his birth) – and English folk song arrangements. Music for solo cello by György Ligeti and Timothy Salter completes the programme.
Tickets £15.00 from info@ioniansingers.co.uk, or 07932766513, or on the door.
Or from Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/concert-with-the-ionian-singers-tickets-807597173887 (booking fee applies)
Saturday 18th November
St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico
St Gabriel’s Warwick Square SW1V 4QF, concert given as part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival
Emily Gray – mezzo soprano
Carol Ella – viola
Timothy Salter – piano and conductor
music for voice and voices from Byrd to now
Music by Byrd, Tomkins, Brahms (choral songs and Two Songs op.91 for mezzo, viola and piano), Fauré, Ireland, Maw, Laura Snowden (UK première of Cradle Song), Timothy Salter and folk song arrangements.
Saturday 17th June 2023 7.30 p.m.
St Mary’s Church, Putney
The Ionian Singers with pianist Natalia Williams Wandoch, soprano Jocelyn Coates and conductor and pianist Timothy Salter performed a programme of instrumental music, choral music and songs from the Romantic age to the present. The concert included choral music by Elgar, Howells, Skempton, Barber and Debussy, together with the first performance of Salter’s …the strangest Sea, a setting for chorus and harp of poems by Emily Dickinson. Songs by Fauré and Chaminade and solo piano pieces by Debussy complmented the choral music
Saturday 18th March 2023 7.30 p.m.
St Faith’s Church, Redpost Hill,
London SE24 9JQ
Concert in memory of Ulla Gray
Timothy Salter, conductor; Marianne Cotterill, soprano
Music by Alfvén, Barber, Howells, Lange-Müller, Sibelius and Salter
Sunday 13th November 2022 at 4pm
Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
For Remembrance
Choral music and songs by composers including Brahms (Alto Rhapsody), Elgar (The Angel’s Farewell from The Dream of Gerontius), Purcell, Parry, Gurney, Ireland, Kodaly, Walton.
02/07/2022
St Stephen’s Church, Sydenham
Music by Delius, Finzi, Alan Bullard and Timothy Salter’s Katharsios for piano, percussion and chorus.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor), Maiko Mori (piano), Donna-Maria Landowski (percussion)
12/02/2022
St Faith’s Church, North Dulwich, SE24 9JQ
The Ionian Singers with Eulalie Charland (violin) and Timothy Salter (conductor and piano) presented a programme of choral music from Germany, Austria, America and England together with duos for violin and piano. Composers include Byrd, Tallis, J.S.Bach, Bruckner, Schumann, Brahms, Karg-Elert, Holst and from more recent times Rubbra, Barber and Salter. Included also is A Sequence of Chorales and Preludes in which choral preludes by various composers transcribed for violin and keyboard are interweaved amongst the sung chorales.
25/09/2021
St Stephen’s Church, Sydenham
The Ionian Singers with Timothy Salter (conductor and piano) were joined by Olivia Fraser (oboe) and Jocelyn Coates (soprano) in a programme of French and English music reflecting the passion combined with elegance typical of its period. The English composers include Elgar, Coleridge-Taylor, Vaughan Williams and Maconchy, with French music by Fauré, Debussy, Grovlez and Poulenc. A selection of English folk-songs arranged by Timothy Salter variously for all the performers concludes the concert.
14/03/2020
Brandenburg Choral Festival of London
Two English Renaissances are celebrated in this programme: the first, with music from the late 16th and early 17th centuries and the second with music of the past fifty years, performed by The Ionian Singers with their conductor Timothy Salter.
From the first Renaissance will be sung motets by White (the gravely beautiful Christe, qui lux es et dies), Byrd, Weelkes and Tomkins. Their counterpart in lyricism and compositional ingenuity is heard four hundred years later in works by Howells (the rarely-heard Inheritance, with words by Walter De La Mare), Harvey (I love the Lord), Timothy Salter (Miraculum Secundum, a setting of the miracle of the Gadarene swine recounted it St Mark’s gospel) and Nicholas Ansdell-Evans (Ave verum corpus, written for this choir and its conductor).
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Rorate Coeli – William Byrd (1543-1623)
O Israel, if thou return – Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
O mortal man – Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
Inheritance – Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
I love the Lord – Jonathan Harvey (1932-2012)
Christe qui lux – Robert White (1538-1574)
Ave verum corpus – Nicholas Ansdell-Evans (b. 1970)
Arise, O Lord – Thomas Tomkins
Unam petii a Domino – William Byrd
Miraculum Secundum – Timothy Salter (b. 1942)
O Salutaris hostia – William Byrd
Gloria in excelsis – Thomas Weelkes
01/02/2020
St Peter’s Vauxhall
Come & Sing 2pm – 6pm
We are pleased to invite you to our Come and Sing event. Following successful events in 2018 and 2019, we are opening our doors for a third Come and Sing afternoon on 1st February 2020. We will be exploring a varied mix of pieces, expertly led by our highly esteemed conductor, Timothy Salter.
If you love choral singing, why not join us for the enriching experience of making music together.
We’ll provide copies of music by Morley, Weelkes, Brahms, Delius, Ravel, Messiaen, Joubert, folk song arrangements and others. There will be tea, coffee and cake to sustain you. All you need to bring is enthusiasm, an open mind and reasonable sight-reading skills.
Venue: St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, Lambeth, London SE11 5HY
Fee: £20 including refreshments.
For more information please contact Ulla Gray on info@ioniansingers.co.uk, 0208 693 1051 or 07950 143 916
09/11/2019
St Stephens Church, Sydenham at 7.30pm
A Triple Alliance – music from France, Germany and England
The Ionian Singers and Timothy Salter (conductor and piano) are joined by the clarinettist, Marina Finnamore in a programme of music from France, Germany and England. Finzi is represented in both choral and instrumental form, with the English element complemented by two of Walton’s short choral pieces and the first performance of Ave verum corpus, a new work by Nicholas Ansdell-Evans. The French music is by Poulenc (from his Sept Chansons of 1936), with clarinet and piano music by Debussy (Première Rhapsodie) and Messager.
From Germany come Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces op.73 for clarinet and piano and two of Brahms’s contemplative part-songs. The concert concludes with Salter’s transcription of two Wolf songs that bring all the performers together.
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Wherefore tonight so full of care – Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
White flowering days
Ave verum corpus – Nicholas Ansdell-Evans (b.1970)
Darthulas Grabesgesange – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
All meine Herzgedanken
Fantasiestücke op.73 – Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Bagatelles no.1 and no.4 – Gerald Finzi
clarinet & piano
Set me as a seal upon thine heart – William Walton (1902-1983)
A Litany
Four songs – Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Première Rhapsodie – Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Solo de Concours – André Messager (1853-1929)
clarinet & piano
Auch kleine Dinge – Hugo Wolf (transcr. Salter) (b.1942)
Wiegenlied (Im Sommer)
chorus, clarinet & piano
06/07/2019
St Peter’s Church, Vauxhall
The Ionian Singers with Timothy Salter (conductor and pianist) and the cellist Rebecca Hepplewhite present an evening of music across a continent from Russia to England – well-loved choral repertoire by Sullivan and Vaughan Williams along with less familiar works by Bohuslav Martinů and Cesar Cui, and folk-based songs from Matyas Seiber. The music for cello and piano includes works by by Fauré, Ravel Rachmaninov and Salter (three sharply-etched pieces, Phantasma). The performers join forces in Arensky’s Three Songs for chorus and cello, and folk-song arrangements by Salter conclude the programme.
ProgrammeYugoslav folk songs – Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960)
Hi River broad and bright – Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881)
Two roses – César Cui (1835-1918)
Madrigals – Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Phantasma – Timothy Salter (b.1942)
Prelude Op.2 no.1 – Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
cello & piano
Drei Lieder – Anton Arensky (1861-1916)
cello & chorus
Habanera – Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Elégie – Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Arabesques (selection) – Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
cello & piano
The Willow Song – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
O mistress mine
The long day closes – Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Folk song arrangements: – Timothy Salter
Cold blows the win
O No John!
01/06/2019
St Andrew’s Church, Surbiton
The Ionian Singers with conductor and organist Timothy Salter will be joined by Luba Tunnicliffe (viola and violin) in a concert of music from across Europe.
Choral music by Stanford, Verdi, Brahms and Grieg forms the programme together with sonatas for violin and continuo by J.S.Bach and solo viola by Hindemith, who is also represented by a selection of his French chansons for chorus. A duet from Bach’s Cantata no. 78 and two of Salter’s folk song arrangements complete this intriguing selection of wide-ranging repertoire.
Justorum animae – C.V. Stanford (1852 – 1924)
Beati quorum via
Ave Maris stella – Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Letztes Glück – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Der Falke
Duet, Wir eilen (cantate No.78) – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
A Stenson (sop), J Coates (sop), organ
Sonate op.31/4 movt I & ii – Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
viola solo
Liebster Jesu (transcr. Salter) – J.S. Bach
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen (transcr. Salter) – Brahms
viola, organ
Pater Noster – Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Kommst du nun (transcr. Salter) – J.S. Bach
violin, organ
Sonata in E minor BWV1023 – J.S. Bach
violin, organ
Chansons nos. I, II, IV, VI – Paul Hindemith
The Miller of the Dee – Timothy Salter (b. 1942)
Flowers of the Valley
30/03/2019
St Stephen Walbrook
Brandenburg Choral Festival of London
After a gap of two hundred years English choral music flourished anew during the second half of the 19c in a later Renaissance, and this momentum has remained in force up to our own times. The music in today’s programme reflects, as may be expected, the changes in musical language over the c.150 years, from the richly Romantic sound of Parry, Stanford and Elgar through the more Anglicised harmonies of Delius and Howells (in his in memoriam for J. F. Kennedy, Take him, Earth, for cherishing) to the contemporary sounds of music by Timothy Salter and Joseph Horovitz, in whose setting of Wilde’s poem Endymion Jocelyn Coates is the soprano soloist.
ProgrammeJustorum animae – C.V. Stanford (1852 – 1924)
Beati quorum via
On Time
Never weather-beaten sail – Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
On Craig Ddû – Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Take him, earth for cherishing – Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
The quality of mercy – Timothy Salter (b.1942)
God and the Universe – C. V. Stanford
Endymion – Joseph Horovitz (b.1926)
Jocelyn Coates (soprano solo)
There is sweet music – Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
O wild west wind
Come and Sing
16/02/2019
St Peter’s Church, Vauxhall
310 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5HY 2pm – 6pm
Following our very successful ‘Come and Sing’ last February, we invite you to join us for an afternoon of singing exciting music, under the direction of our charismatic conductor, the composer Timothy Salter.
We’ll provide copies of music by Byrd, Gibbons, Debussy, Brahms, Parry, Delius, Vaughan-Williams, folk-song arrangements and others. There will be tea, coffee and cake to sustain you. All you need to bring is enthusiasm, an open mind and reasonable sight-reading skills.
Fee: £20 including refreshments.
For more information and to take part please contact Ulla Gray on info@ioniansingers.co.uk, 0208 693 1051 or 07950 143 916
08/12/2018
All Saints Church, West Dulwich
Madonna over the Waves
music of the elements and a celebration of Advent
The Ionian Singers with Emily Gray, mezzo-soprano, and Timothy Salter, conductor and pianist, will give a concert in All Saints Church, Rosendale Church, West Dulwich, SE21 8LN.
This concert takes its title from the Danish choral work by Lange-Müller, Madonna over bølgerne. The theme of water and the sea occurs throughout the first half of this two-part programme with secular choral music and solo songs for mezzo-soprano and piano by a range of composers including Schubert, Brahms, Elgar, Stanford, Parry and Sibelius.
Music for Advent and Christmas form the second half of the concert. The choral works will include music by Sweelinck, Poston (The apple tree), Cornelius (The Three Kings), Timothy Salter and Russell Hepplewhite. The Nativity is celebrated in a group of songs by R.Strauss, Fauré, Ravel and Howells (Come sing and dance).
07/07/2018
St Peter’s Eaton Square, London
and I saw another angel
The journeying of the spirit between bleak despair and serene joy is portrayed in this programme of sacred music to be given by The Ionian Singers and organist Julian Collings, conducted by Timothy Salter. The plea for help in affliction is most tellingly expressed in Purcell’s Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes, more restrained yet still intense in his Hear my prayer and Blow’s Salvator mundi. Anguish and despair run through Eliot’s words in Harvey’s The dove descending, and earthly vanity is lamented in Warlock’s setting of Webster’s All the flowers of the spring. Salter’s Scuto circumdabit te echoes the search for reassurance heard in the Purcell, with the image of a shield occurring in the texts of both. From the 19c and early 20c come four rich settings: S.S.Wesley’s Wash me throughly, two rarely-heard anthems of Stanford and Bainton and Ireland’s Greater love hath no man. Three of Mathias’s Rex Gloriae motets complete the programme.
ProgrammeAnd I saw a new heaven – Edgar Bainton (1880-1956)
The dove descending – Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012)
Wash me throughly – Samuel Wesley (1766-1837)
Rex Gloriae – William Matthias (1934-1992)
Greater love hath no man – John Ireland (1879-1962)
Hear my prayer – Henry Purcell (c 1659-1695)
Salvator mundi – John Blow (1649-1708)
All the Flowers of the Spring – Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Scuto circumdabit te – Timothy Salter (b. 1942)
And I saw another angel – Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
23/06/2018
The Danish Church
Music for Midsummer
The Ionian Singers under their conductor Timothy Salter will give a concert in the Danish Church on Saturday 23rd June at 6pm sponsored by Danish Women’s Association.
Music by Elgar, Stanford, Coleridge-Taylor, Ireland, and Finzi will range through the pastoral, the amorous and the philosophical. English madrigals and arrangements by Salter of popular English and Danish folk songs complete a programme of music to delight on a summer’s evening. After the concert you are invited to the Church garden party celebrating Skt Hans Evening
Music for MidsummerMy spirit sang all day – Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
The Evening Star – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
The Lee Shore
Cradle Song – John Ireland (1879-1962)
Feasting I watch – Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Prince of sleep
Though Amaryllis dance in green – William Byrd (1543-1623)
Draw on sweet night – John Wilbye (1574-1638)
English Folk Song arrangements – Timothy Salter (b. 1942)
Elsie Marley
The Loyal Lover
The Angler’s Song – Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
The Haven
English Folk Song arrangement – Timothy Salter
Strawberry Fair
Danish Folk Song arrangements – Timothy Salter
Nu falmer skoven trindt om land
Roselil og hendes mor
24/03/2018
St Mary-le-Bow
Brandenburg Choral Festival of London
Five movements from Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices open and close a programme that brings together music of the English Renaissance, the Baroque and recent times. The Ionian Singers with their conductor Timothy Salter perform motets by Gibbons, Weelkes and the 20c English composer Edmund Rubbra. They are joined by the violinist Eulalie Charland in the Norwegian composer Knut Nystedt’s Ave Maria. Solo violin music by J.S.Bach, the Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson and Salter, and the first performance of a short chorale prelude for violin and chorus on the chorale Es ist genug -a joint effort between Bach and Salter – form the rest of the concert.
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Mass for Four Voices – William Byrd (1543-1625)
Kyrie eleison
Gloria in excelsis
Lift up your heads – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Tenebrae: Third Nocturne – Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Chorale Prelude: Es ist genug – J.S. Bach/Salter
violin and chorus
Loure and Gavotte en rondeau – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Partita No.3
solo violin
Extracts from Klee Sketches – Haflidi Hallgrimsson (b. 1941)
solo violin
When David heard – Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
Ave Maria – Knut Nystedt (1915-2014)
violin and chorus
Oration – Timothy Salter (b.1942)
solo violin
Mass for Four Voices – William Byrd
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
24/02/2018
Calling all Singers
Lambeth Mission, 3-5 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7DQ
Saturday 24th February 2018 from 2.00pm – 6.00pm
To take part please email info@ioniansingers.co.uk or ring 07950 143 916 by Friday 9 February.
Fee: £15 (including refreshments) Registration form
The Ionian Singers is a chamber choir performing music from the Renaissance to the present day. We sing motets, anthems part-songs,folk-songs and contemporary choral music, mostly unaccompanied but regularly including music that incorporates some unusual instrumental ensembles.
Our speciality is singing ‘the music that other choirs don’t sing’ or, to put it more formally, ‘less-familiar or unjustly-neglected repertoire’.
We would love to welcome you to our musical afternoon. We’ll provide copies of music by Tallis, Byrd, Stanford, Elgar, Brahms, Skempton, Rubbra, folk-song arrangements and others.
All you need is enthusiasm, an open mind and reasonable sight-reading skills.
25/11/2017
All Saints Church, West Dulwich
Music for voices, viola and harp
The Ionian Singers and their conductor Timothy Salter will be joined by violist Luba Tunnicliffe and harpist Oliver Wass, members of the Pelléas Ensemble, for a concert on Saturday 25th November in All Saints Church, Rosendale Road.
An exciting mix of music arises from the unusual combination of voices and the two instrumentalists who will perform both as a duo and with the choir. The programme will include English music by Bax, Elgar and Salter (his Nocturne for harp, viola and chorus) and Russian works for the duo by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev (movements from Romeo and Juliet). A selection of piano pieces and songs by Debussy, transcribed by Salter, and a rarely heard choral piece by American composer Dominick Argento, his robust setting of Keats’ celebratory poem Hymn to Apollo, complete the programme.
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Music for voices, viola and harp
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I sing of a Maiden – Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
Love’s tempest – Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Go, song of mine
Beau soir * – Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Nuit d’étoiles *
chorus and harp
In Smyrna * – Edward Elgar
Fantasy sonata (extract) – Arnold Bax
viola and harp
Twelfth nigth – Samuel Barber (1910-1881)
In praise of Apollo – Dominick Argento (b.1927)
Prelude Op.32 No.5 * – Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Romeo and Juliet suite (extract) – Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Pour invoquer Pan from Six epigraphs Antiques * – Claude Debussy
Prélude from Suite Bergamasque * – Claude Debussy
viola and harp
Nocturne – Timothy Salter (b.1942)
chorus, viola and harp
*transcriptions by Timothy Salter
programme
Music for Midsummer’s Day
The Ionian Singers under their conductor Timothy Salter, with Danish soprano Marianne Cotterill gave a concert in the Danish Church London on Saturday 24th June at 6pm. This concert was sponsored by The Danish Women’s Association.
The concert included Scandinavian music by Grieg, Alfvén and Lange-Müller together with music by Finzi, Rubbra and Barber. Arrangements by Salter of popular English, Danish and Swedish folk songs, and madrigals by Byrd and Greaves completed a delightful programme of music to celebrate midsummer.
Concert Diary
25/03/2017
St Clement Danes, Strand, London WC2R 1DH
Brandenburg Choral Festival
The programme included music from Germany and Scandinavia: Rheinberger’s Abendlied, choral songs by Brahms, two of Wolf’s Geistliche Lieder. Grieg’s Ave Maris stella and the Lange-Müller’s Tre Madonnasange.
English music will include Warlock’s The Full Heart, part songs by Coleridge-Taylor, Alan Bullard’s Three poems of W.B. Yeats, Timothy Salter’s Invida Aetas – Fragments from Horace and two of his English folk-song arrangements.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor)
For details of the concert please see Concert Diary
12/11/2016
All Saints Church, West Dulwich, London SE21 8LN
The programme included unaccompanied choral music by Howells, Cornelius, Debussy and Elisabeth Lutyens as well music for solo cello by Deborah Pritchard and music for cello and piano by Debussy. Timothy Salter’s Phantasma for cello and piano will receive its first performance.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor/piano), Karolina Öhman (cello)
for details of the concert programme please see Concert Diary
25/06/2016
St Alfege Greenwich
The programme included unaccompanied choral music by Schein, Poulenc, Ravel and Hindemith. Laura Snowden and Joo Yeon Sir will play two of their own works and music by de Falla, Mompou and Debussy. Their arrangements of chorale preludes by J.S. Bach will include two with chorus. A group of Timothy Salter’s folk songs, including the first performance of two new ones, complete the concert.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor), Snowden-Sir Duo: Laura Snowden (guitar), Joo Yeon Sir (violin)
For details of the programme please see Concert Diary
12/03/2016
St Clement the Danes, Strand
Brandenburg Choral Festival
The English Mystic
music of joy and contemplation
Programme included music spanning from the Renaissance (Byrd and Tallis) to the 20th century (Holst, Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Harris, Jonathan Harvey ‘Come Holy Ghost’ and Timothy Salter ‘Eternity’) and from the 21st century the 1st performance of Jonathan Pitkin’s ‘Ye who used to soar’.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor)
Programme details
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14/11/2015
All Saints Church, West Dulwich
The programme included Elizabeth Maconchy (Four Miniatures), Vaughan Williams (Three Shakespeare Songs), SS Wesley (Pastoral), Timothy Salter (folksong arrangements) Arensky and Brahms.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor/piano), Rebecca Hepplewhite (cello)
For details of the programme please see Concert Diary
11/07/2015
St James’s Piccadilly
Sing Joyfully
The programme included motets and anthems by Byrd and Gibbons, commencing with Byrd’s ‘Sing joyfully’. Moving through the twentieth century music will be performed by Stanford ‘God and the Universe’, Elgar ‘O Wild West Wind’, Howells, Finzi and Walton, Timothy Salter ‘The white and the walk of the morning’, Philip Cashian ‘Music for an empty sky’. Arrangements of Salter’s popular English folk songs will complete the programme.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor)
For details of the programme please see Concert Diary
14/03/2015
All Saints Church, West Dulwich
A Sequence for Lent
Programme will include a sequence of chorales by J.S.Bach alternating with motets by Byrd, Bruckner and Victoria. Bach’s motet ‘Jesu, meine Freude’ together with anthems by Purcell, ‘Hear my prayer, and ‘Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?’, motets by Bruckner and ‘In Paradisum’ from Fauré’s Requiem will also be performed.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor/organ), For details of the programme please see Concert Diary
22/11/2014
St Alfege, Greenwich
Concert for St Cecilia
Programme included unaccompanied choral music by Cornelius, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Schubert and Delius as well as music for violin and piano by Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, Fauré, Delius and Kreisler
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor/piano), Eulalie Charland (violin)
For details of the programme please see Concert Diary
28/06/2014
Hambleden Music Festival
Programme included part songs by Stanford, Elgar and Rubbra and English folk song arrangements by Timothy Salter together with extract from Salter’s ‘Invida aetas’ and ‘He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by Russell Hepplewhite. American choral music by Horatio Parker and Samuel Barber will complete the programme.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor)
For details of the concert please seeConcert Diary
05/04/2014
St Alfege, Greenwich
Programme included unaccompanied choral music by Brahms and Howells; music for organ and cello by Rheinberger, Rachmaninov, Two chorale preludes by Brahms arr. by Salter and Russell Hepplewhite’s work for solo cello ‘Circling’; ‘The Beholder’ (chorus, cello and organ) by Salter; ‘Greater love has no man’ (chorus and organ) by Ireland and ‘Magnificat in G’ (chorus and organ) by Stanford.
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor) Rebecca Hewes (cello), Michael Bonaventure (organ)
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07/12/2013
All Saints Church, Blackheath, SE3 0TY
Programme included choral and music for organ by Sweelinck, Howells Messiaen, Buxtehude, Pearsall, Byrd, Salter, Warlock and J.S. Bach
The Ionian Singers, Michael Bonaventure (organ), Timothy Salter (conductor)
enquiries: 0208 693 1051 or 07950 143 916
19/10/2013
All Saints Church, Weston Green, Esher, Surrey KT10 8JL
Programme included German, American and English music by amongst others J.S. Bach, Argento and Barber, Holst, Walton, Vaughan Williams, John Casken, Russell Hepplewhite (solo cello) and Timothy Salter (solo cello and English folk song arrangements). English madrigals included works by Gibbons, Byrd and Wilbye
The Ionian Singers, Rebecca Hewes (cello), Timothy Salter (conductor)
enquiries 0208 693 2051 or 07950 143 916