'Tis Nature's Voice
London 10-18 May

In 2013 the Festival explores music inspired by and reflecting nature in all its forms.

With tickets from just £10 there's never been a better time to join us!

Priority booking opens 28 Jan 2013
General booking opens 4 Feb 2013

Click on a programme item for further details
All concerts at St John's Smith Square unless otherwise stated

Friday 10 May, 7.00pm
Handel  L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Gillian Webster soprano
Jeremy Ovenden tenor
Ashley Riches baritone
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh director

Saturday 11 May, 2.00pm
Festival Tour - Garden Museum

Saturday 11 May, 4.30pm
Season's Double Bill (Take 1):
Christopher Simpson

Pavlo Beznosiuk and Friends
Pavlo Beznosiuk
Mark Levy bass viol
Reiko Ichise bass viol
Paula Chateauneuf theorbo
James Johnstone organ

Saturday 11 May, 6.15pm
The Lufthansa Lecture
Music of this Sphere

Richard Mabey

Saturday 11 May, 7.45pm
Seasons Double Bill (Take 2):
'The Four Seasons' come home!

IMAGINARIUM Ensemble
Enrico Onofri violin & director
Catherine Bott reader

Sunday 12 May, 2.00pm
Festival Tour - Chelsea Physic Garden

Sunday 12 May, 4.30pm
St Peter's Eaton Square
'... pour passer la Mélancolie'

Andreas Staier harpsichord

Sunday 12 May, 7.30pm
Fresh-air Handel

Maria Keohane soprano
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Lars Ulrik Mortensen harpsichord & director

Tuesday 14 May, 7.30pm
Country Life: Pastoral Songs and Duets
from 17th-century England

Sophie Daneman soprano
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
Theatre of the Ayre
Anne-Marie Lasia viola da gamba
Steven Devine harpsichord
Elizabeth Kenny lute

Wednesday 15 May, 7.00pm
'Tis Nature's Voice
Westminster Abbey

Mary Bevan soprano
Iestyn Davies* counter-tenor
Charles Daniels tenor
Andrew Tortise tenor
Jontathon Sells baritone
Benjamin Bevan* bass-baritone
The Choir of Westminster Abbey
St James's Baroque
James O'Donnell conductor

*Please note this is a change to the published brochure

Thursday 16 May, 7.30pm
Back to Nature!

Florilegium
Ashley Solomon flute & director
Reiko Ichise viola da gamba
Terence Charlston harpsichord

Friday 17 May, 7.00pm
'Il canto degli Uccelli' - The Song of the Birds

Claire Lefilliâtre sporano
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tubéry cornetto & director

Friday 17 May, 9.30pm Lufthansa Late
D'Amore

Garth Knox viola d'amore
Agnès Vesterman cello

Saturday 18 May, 2.00pm
Festival Tour - Kensington Palace & Gardens

Saturday 18 May, 4.30pm
Fête champêtre

Le Jardin Secret
Elizabeth Dobbin soprano
Georgia Browne flute
Tuomo Suni violin
Romina Lischka viola da gamba
Sofie Vanden Eynde theorbo
Anthony Romaniuk* harpsichord

*Please note this is a change to the published brochure

Saturday 18 May, 7.30pm
Baroque on the High Seas

Carolyn Sampson soprano
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Anne Katharina Schreiber* violin & conductor

*Please note this is a change to the published brochure