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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · 6d

What a joy to play to a packed out @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social tonight with Elgar’s transcendent The Dream of Gerontius. Thank to everyone who came and to our magnificent soloists Thomas Elwin, Victoria Simmonds and Gareth Brynmor John and all 59 orchestral players. A night to remember.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Sep 5

“This,” wrote Edward Elgar, “is the best of me.”
I’ve always wanted to sing this deeply felt masterpiece of life and death with orchestra, soloists and chorus singing the roles of friends, demons and angels.
@elysiansingers.bsky.social
Sat Oct 4. Book now!
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/the-dr...

The Dream of Gerontius - Sinfonia Smith Square

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Aug 4

To celebrate 25 glorious years of working with our music director Sam Laugton, we’re singing Elgar’s devout, epic survey of life, death and the hereafter, The Dream of Gerontius in its 125th year!
Saturday 4 October, 7.30pm
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/the-dr...

The Dream of Gerontius - Sinfonia Smith Square

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Aug 4

To celebrate 25 glorious years of working with our music director Sam Laugton, we’re singing Elgar’s devout, epic survey of life, death and the hereafter, The Dream of Gerontius in its 125th year!
Saturday 4 October, 7.30pm
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/the-dr...

The Dream of Gerontius - Sinfonia Smith Square

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Jun 2

Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The vivid word-painting in Handel’s Great Escape oratorio Israel in Egypt is even more dynamic (and shorter) than his Messiah.
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theel...

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Jun 2

Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The vivid word-painting in Handel’s Great Escape oratorio Israel in Egypt is even more dynamic (and shorter) than his Messiah.
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theel...

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · May 10

Thanks to everyone who came to hear us sing our all @willtoddmusic.bsky.social programme including Will’s genuinely extraordinary Requiem for choir, soprano and electric guitarist. Susan Young and @thomasgraymusic were magnificent and watching you all, rapt, as we sang was a thrill.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thrilled to sing Will Todd’s unique Requiem with @elysiansingers.bsky.social on Friday May 9. Ricocheting between tenderly shimmering and utterly wild, it’s scored for choir in multi-part harmony, soprano solo and electric guitar. A total one-off. Hear it live! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/blo...

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Apr 11

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thrilled to sing Will Todd’s unique Requiem with @elysiansingers.bsky.social on Friday May 9. Ricocheting between tenderly shimmering and utterly wild, it’s scored for choir in multi-part harmony, soprano solo and electric guitar. A total one-off. Hear it live! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/blo...

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'm singing this and it's bloody gorgeous.
Come to the concert!

The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Mar 24

This lush music is a joy to sing. Have a listen... and now imagine hearing it live, shimmering into space. We're singing it on Friday 9 May in an all-Will Todd concert including his wild and wonderful Requiem for choir, soprano & electric guitar.
Ticket link below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elId...

Vidi Speciosam

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Mar 24

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Mar 24

This lush music is a joy to sing. Have a listen... and now imagine hearing it live, shimmering into space. We're singing it on Friday 9 May in an all-Will Todd concert including his wild and wonderful Requiem for choir, soprano & electric guitar.
Ticket link below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elId...

Vidi Speciosam

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Mar 3

Thanks to everyone who came to our concert on Saturday at York Late Music Festival in honour of Arvo Pärt’s 90th Birthday – in the wonderful acoustic of the York Unitarian Chapel.
Next up, the haunting Requiem by @willtoddmusic.bsky.social

David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Mar 1

TONIGHT!
Thrilled to premiere a John Donne setting by @david-lancaster.bsky.social with @elysiansingers.bsky.social alongside other a capella wonders by Arvo Pärt, Ešenvalds, Lauridsen + Eric Whitacre’s astonishing, rapt masterpiece When David Heard in 18-part harmony. latemusic.org/elysian-sing...

Elysian Singers - York Late Music Concerts

Saturday 1st March, 7:30pm A concert celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

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David Lancaster @david-lancaster.bsky.social · Feb 23

This Saturday at Late Music the @elysiansingers.bsky.social will give the first performance of 'The World's Last Night', a setting of John Donne. I've written about it for the Late Music website with all the details of Saturday's performance. Come along if you can! latemusic.org/the-worlds-l...

The World’s Last Night by David Lancaster - York Late Music Concerts

My first serious encounter with the poetry of John Donne came when the Oxford Harmonic Choir commissioned me to compose a new piece for their concert in June 2019, to precede their performance of Moza...

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Jan 30

On our recent 5-star-reviewed @elysiansingers.bsky.social album we premiered the beautifully chilly Feathers by @david-lancaster.bsky.social. Thrilled now to be premiering his setting of John Donne's The World's Last Night:
Sat 1 March
York Late Music Festival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xzP...

Feathers

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Jan 30

On our new 5-star-reviewed disc we premiered the beautifully chilly Feathers by @david-lancaster.bsky.social. Thrilled now to be premiering his setting of John Donne's The World's Last Night + music by Pärt, Whitacre, Ešenvalds & more.
Sat 1 March
York Late Music Festival.
youtu.be/0xzPEzcnj6c?...

Feathers

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Jan 13

Our 1 March concert at York Late Music Festival features the premiere of a piece by @david-lancaster.bsky.social following his ethereal Feathers on our Beauty for Ashes album.
Also, Whitacre’s stunning setting of When David Heard in 18-part harmony +’music by Arvo Pärt. latemusic.org/product/elys...

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Dec 16

Our concert on Thursday features fresh thoughts on Christmas classics including this luminous arrangement by Bob Chilcott. Join us at St.Giles-in-the-Fields at 7.30pm for programme of shimmering and shiveringly beautiful seasonal music.
Link for tickets below.
youtu.be/95UHIigQAJc?...

Away in a Manger (arr. B. Chilcott for choir)

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Dec 16

Supper awaits me for after tonight’s rehearsal for our Christmas concert on Thursday at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2H 8LG.
Can’t promise to feed you but there is deliciousness via Bob Chilcott, Judith Weir, Richard Allain, The Swingle Singers, Roderick Williams and heaps more. Treat yourself!

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Buy tickets – The Elysian Singers of London

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Dec 16

Our concert on Thursday features fresh thoughts on Christmas classics including this luminous arrangement by Bob Chilcott. Join us at St.Giles-in-the-Fields at 7.30pm for programme of shimmering and shiveringly beautiful seasonal music.
Link for tickets below.
youtu.be/95UHIigQAJc?...

Away in a Manger (arr. B. Chilcott for choir)

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · Dec 11

My next concert has some seriously delicious music in multiple-part harmony. Our Messiah last Sunday sold out so book now to avoid disappointment.
Go on: treat yourself!

The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Dec 11

From John Tavener’s tender The Lamb to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas via shimmering modern classics by Judith Weir, The Swingles and this beauty by Bob Chilcott from one of our albums.
@elysiansingers.bsky.social Dec 19
St.Giles-in-the-Fields
London WC2H 8LG
7.30pm
youtu.be/_2HL8AOyE-A?...

Remember, O Thou Man

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Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · Dec 11

Everybody needs a fabulous Christmas concert! And our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert will be fabulous indeed. Come along, and I guarantee you’ll leave smiling and with a bunch of festive earworms
Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here:
tickettailor.com/events/theelys…

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The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Buy tickets – Winter Wonderland 2024 – St Giles in the Fields

Choral music for the season. Anon (arr. Richard Allain): Coventry CarolRoderick Williams: Now winter nightsJudith Weir: Illumin...

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