The JCS will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Zoltán Kodály in three separate concerts in March 2017. On 3 March we will be joined by the award-winning Hungarian vocal ensemble the Banchieri Singers and instrumentalists Júlia Pusker (violin) and Dóra Kokas (cello) for a programme of a cappella choral works and...
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What better way to get your festive season off to a musical start than by joining the JCS at one of our Christmas concerts this year? We will be giving three performances in under a week, starting with our own concert Rejoice and Be Merry! on 6th December at the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair....
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We are delighted that we will be joined in our concert Danse Macabre on 20 October by Lloyd Coleman as clarinet soloist. He will play a short solo piece Hommage à J S Bach by Béla Kovács in the first half and join the choir for Oblivion (Piazzolla) and To the Mothers in Brazil:...
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The JCS gives the London Première of Toby Young’s Dancing Star with the Torgan Dance Company at St. Paul’s Church, Covent Garden on 20th October in a programme entitled Danse Macabre. The music ranges from renaissance funeral music from Spain and Portugal and Herbert Howells Requiem via Dancing Star to Brazil and Argentina with...
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Vaughan Williams – Fair Child Of Beauty We are excited to announce the release of our brand new disc which is out on the Albion Label. Edmund Spenser (1552/3–1599) wrote the ode Epithalamion to celebrate his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle on 11 June, 1594, and it was published, along with the related sonnet sequence Amoretti, in 1595....