Sarah Gabriel and Dominic Harlan have chosen an hour of their favourite songs from their previous recitals for their concert at Chelsea Arts Club on 4th March. Their work together has included projects for Glyndebourne, Tete-a-Tete Riverside Festival and Leeds Lieder Festival.

Tickets are £8.50 and the performance starts at 6pm

The Chelsea Arts Club, 143 Old Church Street, London SW3 6EB

There are no photos of Sarah and Dom together, so here’s one of Dom brooding against a wall.

After a happy and exciting reunion with Christopher Suckling on the gamba and Jan Waterfield on the harpsichord in a Guildhall rehearsal room with baroque heating, we’re revving up for the Abbandonata mini-tour to Scotland, along with the terrific violinists Oliver Webber and Julia Black.

The highlight will be our recital for the Georgian Concert Society at St. Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh, which we’re reliably informed by the glorious soprano Mhairi Lawson has ‘one of the best acoustics anywhere’.

Salon Tuesdays continues its 2011-12 season with A Georgian Christmas: an hour-long programme of 18th century Advent and Christmas songs, carols, and readings in the intimate drawing-room setting of the Georgian Group, Fitzroy Square, London. Early booking is advised.

Sarah Gabriel | soprano
Oliver Gerrish | countertenor
Ben Fleetwood Smyth | tenor
Matthew Altham | baritone
Nathaniel Mander | harpsichord

Tuesday 13th December, 7.30 pm
The Georgian Group, 6 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 5DX (nearest tube: Warren Street)

Tickets £20 to include a glass of prosecco, with further glasses for a paltry donation.

Booking
Online: www.georgiangroup.org.uk
(please go to the events page for December to enter the Georgian Group booking system)
By phone: 020 7529 8920

Sarah will be performing Schoenberg’s momentous String Quartet number 2 and Schubert’s much-loved ‘Shepherd on the Rock’ on 8th December with Ensemble 360 at The Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield.

Musicians from around the world were auditioned to form Ensemble 360 – a flexible, eleven-piece chamber music ensemble of five string players, five wind players and a pianist.

Music in the Round is as it suggests: a performance in which the performers are surrounded by the audience. The set-up is informal for audience and musicians alike, with an opportunity for a conversation with the artists about the programme.

Read more here:
http://www.musicintheround.co.uk/event.php?id=261

Programme:
SCHUBERT Shepherd on the Rock D965
For soprano, clarinet and piano
SCHOENBERG String Quartet in F sharp minor Op.10
With soprano
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in A Op.26

‘Schoenberg’s second String Quartet features the precise moment when the composer diverted the course of classical music from lush and romantic tonality to atonal music. The final two movements uniquely feature a soprano, with words from Stefan George’s poem Rapture.

Brahms was a big influence on Schoenberg and you can hear this in his Piano Quartet in A, which reveals just how forward-looking the supposedly conservative Brahms really was.’

Salon Tuesdays return with an hour-long programme of beautiful, rarely-heard songs and arias from the 18th century in the intimate drawing-room setting of the Georgian Group, Fitzroy Square, London. Early booking is advised.

Sarah Gabriel | soprano
Oliver Gerrish | countertenor
Nathaniel Mander | harpsichord

Tickets £20 to include a glass of prosecco.
You can book tickets online here (this link takes you to the events page for November): www.georgiangroup.org.uk
Location : The Georgian Group, 6 Fitzroy Sq, London W1T 5DX (nearest tube: Warren Street)

Sarah has now finished filming in Greece and returns home this morning for rehearsals for Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with Ben Palmer and the Orchestra of St. Paul’s.

On the last couple of days’ filming, the amazing actor (and photographer) Eric Caravaca took a few photos…

Sarah’s next project will be her first film role, in the extraordinary director Brigitte Roüan‘s long-awaited new feature, ‘Tu honoreras ta mere et ta mere’. Set on the Greek island of Milos, the stellar French cast includes Nicole Garcia, Eric Caravaca and Gaspard Ulliel, with a guest appearance from Demis Roussos.

Once again, the amazing Tête à Tête festival brings new opera with untrammelled passion to an unsuspecting but extremely willing public.

In ‘When yesterday we met’, Dominic Harlan (piano), Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Philip Smith (baritone) sneaked in some songs – Russian, German Lieder, French melodies – the best stuff, with great stories told in gargantuan tunes, including Schumann’s ‘Ich Grolle Nicht’ in a version you’ve never heard before, sung by the entire audience too.

Two gorgeous days at the start of the festival. Catch the rest of it over the next couple of weeks. Tickets are cheap, so take a risk and see something that you’d never have imagined in your wildest dreams or nightmares could be put to music.

Photo by Claire Shovelton.

Glyndebourne’s Opera Land this year was filmed in a green studio at Camberwell Studios in South London so that the amazing designer, Shadric Toop, could add a hand-drawn background for the website (soon to be launched).

It’s hard to explain quite how small this studio space is (perhaps the coffee cup at the bottom of the frame in the photo gives some vague sense of scale) but imagine being trapped in an utterly echo-free cupboard with four people…and then singing loudly together.

It was more than a bit like that, although probably quite a bit more enjoyable.

The fantastic Giles Chiplin designed and made Adele’s dress for the Die Fledermaus ball scene in an extraordinary three days, while juggling three other projects. Incongruous French Foreign Legion hat: Props department.