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The opening concert of the English Chamber Orchestra’s 60th season celebrates its close association with renowned conductor Raymond Leppard, a champion of early music, who re-established many once-forgotten early operatic masterpieces, and was responsible for a major revival of interest in baroque music, who sadly passed away last year.

The programme celebrates music recorded and performed during their long and fruitful collaboration, including Mozart Exsultate, jubilate, Monteverdi Chiome d’oro and Pur ti miro (from L’incoronazione di Poppea), and Purcell’s ever-poignant Dido’s Lament (from Dido and Aeneas), performed by award-winning singers soprano Lauren Lodge-Campbell and mezzo Bethany Horak-Hallet and J.S Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.2 with soloists from the ECO. The concert will also include a performance of Vaughan Williams’ much-loved The Lark Ascending, featuring the orchestra’s leader, Stephanie Gonley.

As we revisit those years, a great friend of the ECO who worked many times with Raymond, legendary British mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker, will introduce the programme. The ECO offers in this tribute heartfelt thanks to having known and worked with such an exceptional musician and conductor.

The orchestra are delighted to be performing to a live, socially-distanced audience at the beautiful Cadogan Hall. The programme will be performed without an interval and will last approximately 70 minutes.

If you’re unable to make the concert in person, then you can live-streaming the concert, which is being filmed as part of VOCES8’s ‘Live from London’ series.

Tickets are £15, and the concert can be accessed until the 31st October:

https://voces8.foundation/englishchamberorchestra-7-oct-20

This concert which was originally scheduled for 18th May at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Stephanie Gonley

Violin

Harry Winstanley

Flute

John Roberts

Oboe

Neil Brough

Trumpet

Lauren Lodge-Campbell

Soprano

Bethany Horak-Hallett

Mezzo Soprano

James Sherlock

Director