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The Carice Singers: The Song Sung True
Innovative choral works from the 20th century to the present
Part of the Spitalfields Music Festival 2026
Add to my Calendar 03-07-2026 19:30 03-07-2026 21:30 36 The Carice Singers: The Song Sung True Acclaimed vocal ensemble The Carice Singers with their conductor George Parris bring together seminal choral works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including rarely performed masterpieces by near contemporaries Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur and Luigi Dallapiccola. Both composers reimagine archaic ideas in their individual modernist languages, producing works of technicolour splendour and richness. The spirit of daring innovation continues with the London premieres of four new works by a wave of fresh talent from Composer Academy, presented each year at Cheltenham Music Festival in partnership with Spitalfields Music. The concert begins with former Artistic Director Judith Weir‘s vibrant multi-movement piece The Song Sung True, in which she distills the ‘life-giving activity of singing’. Duration: 1 hour St Giles Cripplegate, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Giles Cripplegate
Fore Street
City of London
London
EC2Y 8DA
England
Programme
Judith Weir – The Song Sung True
Cloe Hotham – Oak
George W. Parris – The Voice of the Rain
Luigi Dallapiccola – Due cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane
Hannah Siddiqui – Seafarings
Sam Buttler – Who has seen
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur – Le cantique des cantiques
Performers
George Parris – Conductor
The Carice Singers
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Programme Note
Acclaimed vocal ensemble The Carice Singers with their conductor George Parris bring together seminal choral works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including rarely performed masterpieces by near contemporaries Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur and Luigi Dallapiccola. Both composers reimagine archaic ideas in their individual modernist languages, producing works of technicolour splendour and richness.
The spirit of daring innovation continues with the London premieres of four new works by a wave of fresh talent from Composer Academy, presented each year at Cheltenham Music Festival in partnership with Spitalfields Music. The concert begins with former Artistic Director Judith Weir‘s vibrant multi-movement piece The Song Sung True, in which she distills the ‘life-giving activity of singing’.
Duration: 1 hour
