YorkConcerts

After its sold-out premiere at LSO St Luke’s, trailblazing artist collective Tangram brings their groundbreaking production Nature Echo to York, offering a powerful reflection on the global issue of climate change.

Performed by some of the UK’s leading musicians, this special concert celebrates the love and friendship between Brahms and the Schumanns through extraordinary works for voice, horn, violin and piano.

Ensemble Hesperi is joined by rising-star soprano Claire Ward for a programme that celebrates the founding of the 'Fund for Decay’d Musicians’ which still supports musicians in need today as the Royal Society of Musicians.

Through reflective pavans and sorrowful songs, University Consort of Viols reflects upon the cultural and artistic fascination with melancholia in England during the latter part of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

On International Women’s Day, University Baroque Ensemble and Ensemble Hesperi join forces to celebrate the musical tastes and talents of Queen Charlotte, Consort to King George III.

A master craftsman at work in a nest of patch cables within an old textile mill, Craven Faults presents half-remembered journeys across post-industrial Yorkshire brought to life through 'shimmering, evocative electronica’.

Final-year student Anna Lezdkan performs Sibelius’ highly virtuosic Violin Concerto in a concert that also includes the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s groundbreaking opera Tristan und Isolde and Strauss' Festival Prelude.

Bach's most extended passion setting is one of the greatest compositions of all time. It contrasts the vivid, harrowing drama of the story of Jesus’ death on the cross with some of the most exquisitely poetic and redemptive music ever written.