Conductor // Andrew Leach

Soprano soloist // Sarah Gabriel
Woodbridge Choral Society

Annelies, James Whitbourn’s beautiful piece for solo voice and choir, is an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. This performance will mark 75 years after the liberation of the concentration camps.

At last! Following the sell-out success of The Blue Hour’s first outing at The Pheasantry, Kings Road, Sarah Gabriel, Tim Sutton, and Gabriella Swallow make their Crazy Coqs debut together on Sunday 18th October.

About the show

In 1930, two young revolutionaries burst onto the Berlin music scene with their satirical opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. It was a smash, capturing the febrile essence of the fragile Weimar Republic. The collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht heralded a brief musical golden age at a time of impending darkness, when artists in underground nightclubs dissected the political maelstrom in the streets above.

The Blue Hour reimagines their legacy in bold, contemporary colours, along with decadent masterpieces of the era, including 'Surabaya Johnny' and Marlene's huge hit, 'Falling in Love Again', all arranged by award-winning composer Tim Sutton.

Between them, Sarah Gabriel (vocals), Tim Sutton (pianist and arranger), Gabriella Swallow (cello), and Beth Higham-Edwards (percussion) have performed at the National Theatre, RSC, Young Vic, Southbank Centre, Théâtre du Châtelet, Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham Festival, Shakespeare's Globe and on tour with Rob Brydon, Hugh Jackman and Bryan Ferry. Following their recent sell-out debut as a quartet, they make their first appearance at Crazy Coqs to celebrate this vibrant, subversive, sexy and provocative music.

Tickets will be available soon on the Zédel website.

* Please note that this date has been moved back from the brochure listing of Sunday 6th September. Sadly, due to Covid-19 restrictions, only three musicians are allowed on the stage for this date, but Beth will join Sarah, Tim and Gabi at other venues later this season.

Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Iain Farrington (composer, arranger, piano) perform their favourite songs from the show Dorothy Parker Takes a Trip - to include works by Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers, Weill, and others at the much-loved St. Mary’s Perivale. To be live-streamed.

Songs to include:

George & Ira Gershwin: Who cares?
Harold Arlen & Dory Previn: The Morning After
Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish: Stardust
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered
Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields: The way you look tonight
Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash: That's him
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart: I wish I were in love again
Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin: The man that got away
George & Ira Gershwin: Love is here to stay
Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson: September Song
Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg & Billy Rose: It's only a paper moon

The BBC Proms 2020 season will open on Friday 17 July on BBC Radio 3 and Sunday 19 July on BBC Four

Beethoveniana

Composed by Iain Farrington

Lyrics by Sarah Gabriel

Sarah has written a new version of the lyrics to ‘Ode to Joy’ for a unique First Night commission composed by Iain Farrington for a Grand Virtual Orchestra, marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

The opening night mash-up of Beethoven’s nine symphonies by composer, arranger and pianist Iain Farrington includes all five BBC orchestras – the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – as well as BBC singers, who will sing Sarah’s words for ‘Ode to Joy’.

The programme will be available to listen here shortly after broadcast.

Sarah Gabriel and novelist and classicist Natalie Haynes present their new show as part of the Aldeburgh Festival, exploring ancient and present muses.

Commissioned by the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Booking opens soon.

Music by Sarah Angliss, performed by Sarah Gabriel and Sarah Angliss.

In this episode of Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics, Natalie tells stories of Eurydice, whose rescue from the Underworld was bungled by her lover Orpheus. How has her story been uncovered from sources that no longer exist? Eurydice is chased by a sex-pest at her wedding, trips on a snake and is killed by its venom. Orpheus charms Persephone with his music into allowing him to attempt a rescue from Hades, but on the journey back he must promise not to look behind him, to check Eurydice is following. Just as they are about to step into the light, he looks back, and his gaze is what kills Eurydice the second time. With Professor Llewelyn Morgan, Sarah Angliss and Sarah Gabriel.

Sarah Gabriel // soprano

Clara Kanter // mezzo-soprano

Satoko Doi-Luck // harpsichord

This Easter recital in Handel’s music room includes music from his early oratorio La Resurrezione (1708), and his later Brockes Passion (1719), as well as marking the Jewish Passover with excerpts from Israel in Egypt (1739).

Link to further information and booking

Link to an interview with Sarah at Handel-Hendrix from 2012…

Sarah joins author Natalie Haynes and visiting actors from Crete to perform a complete reading of Natalie’s extraordinary book, A Thousand Ships, which tells the story of the women of Troy.

Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Iain Farrington (piano) perform Cabaret and Lieder from the era of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).

More details to follow

Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Viv McLean (piano) give the first performance of their Palindrome programme of transcriptions.

More information to follow

Following their sell-out performance at the Oxford Playhouse, a further revival at Presteigne Festival of Dorothy Parker Takes a Trip, the one-act solo play commissioned by and premiered at Dartington International Festival.

Devised and co-created by singer and actor Sarah Gabriel and director Richard Williams, with Iain Farrington as music director, this is a story about legendary writer and wit Dorothy Parker’s immense talent and complicated life, with songs by Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and others. Also featuring Dorothy Parker’s lawyer’s assistant and a filing cabinet.

Sarah Gabriel // voice
Mark Lockheart // saxophones and electronics
Joanna MacGregor // piano and organ
Jon Scott // percussion
Matthew Fairclough // sound projection

Tickets are available here.

Celebrating the composer Harrison Birtwistle at Dartington Festival.

Sarah Gabriel, Gillian Keith sopranos, Tom Randle tenor, Jernej Albreht clarinets, Lydia Hillerudh cello, Paul Archibald, Lucy Humphris trumpets, Brett Baker trombone, Joseph Havlat, Stephen de Pledge piano, Gildas Quartet, Dartington Brass Ensemble. Presented by Joanna MacGregor.

Sarah Gabriel (vocalist), Steve Dummer (clarinet) and Stephen de Pledge (piano) continue their exploration of popular songs at Dartington Festival. Music by George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and lyricist Dorothy Field sits alongside European counterparts: Noel Coward, Kurt Weill, and the doyennes of Parisian cabaret, Marguerite Monnot and Edith Piaf.

Tickets are available here.

Following its premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival 2018, the revival at Dartington International Festival 2019 of Sarah Gabriel’s play about the Brooklyn House where Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, Peter Pears, Gypsy Rose Lee lived during the Second World War.

Tickets are available here.

SOLD OUT

Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Charlotte Forrest (piano) join the three-part series, A Musical Land, at The Red House, Aldeburgh, with songs written by British composers who travelled to Europe to broaden their musical horizons, as well as by European composers who influenced them and with whom they developed friendships. To include music by Poulenc, Michael Berkeley, Britten, Ethel Smyth, Ravel and others.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969, Fly Me to the Moon is a warm and witty one-hour expedition to our nearest neighbour in outer space.

Author and presenter Lucy Hawking, soprano and actor Sarah Gabriel, composer and music director Joseph Atkins and director Richard Williams investigate the ancient and constant human desire to capture what lies beyond us - with music by Schumann and Schubert, Haydn, Barber, and mash-ups of David Bowie, Pink Floyd, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', Mozart and Monteverdi.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969, Fly Me to the Moon is a warm and witty one-hour expedition to our nearest neighbour in outer space.

Author and presenter Lucy Hawking, soprano and actor Sarah Gabriel, composer and music director Joseph Atkins and director Richard Williams investigate the ancient and constant human desire to capture what lies beyond us - with music by Schumann and Schubert, Haydn, Barber, and mash-ups of David Bowie, Pink Floyd, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', Mozart and Monteverdi.

Following their appearance at Kings Place, London, The Sage Gateshead and The Queen’s College, Oxford, Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Joseph Atkins (piano), join translators of the new Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn and David Constantine at Ledbury Poetry Festival. Directed by Sue Parrish of Sphinx Theatre Company.

Sarah Gabriel appears as soprano soloist in Twickenham Choral Society’s performance of Haydn’s masterpiece The Creation.

Booking details to follow soon.

Image: William Blake // Elohim creates Adam (Tate Gallery, London)

An evocation Michael Tippett’s life-changing two-month stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1943 as a conscientious objector. Set in the confines of Tippett’s cell, an hour of music, letters to the outside world, and conversations with Benjamin Britten. Written and directed by Sarah Gabriel (A House on Middagh Street, commissioned by the Britten-Pears Foundation and premiered during the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival) in collaboration with Tippett's biographer, Oliver Soden. Booking details to follow shortly.

Following their appearance at Kings Place, London and The Queen’s College, Oxford, Sarah Gabriel (soprano) and Joseph Atkins (piano), join translators of the new Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn and David Constantine at The Sage Gateshead for the Newcastle Poetry Festival. Directed by Sue Parrish of Spinx Theatre Company.

Air Loom is a new album of dreamlike music, distilling composer and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Angliss’s lifetime’s work with ancient instruments and extraordinary electroacoustic techniques (album release date: 30 March 2019). Joined by Sarah Gabriel (vocalist) and Stephen Hiscock (percussionist), this is the Bristol date for their national tour.

Tickets for The Cube, Bristol, are available here.