Sarah Gabriel

One of the first UK films to be made during the summer of 2020, OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY was filmed under Covid-19 conditions at the studios of the National Film and Television School. Director: Michael Hoffman; Producer: Annalise Davis; Cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton BCE

Sarah Gabriel appears on Sarah Angliss’s acclaimed soundtrack for Romola Garai’s debut feature, the thriller, Amulet.

“Garai goes all-out for her first feature, with daring cuts, a few retro flourishes and some suitably alarming sound design (Nick Baldock’s heightened noises working very well with Sarah Angliss’s probing score).” Screen Daily

Following our sell-out debut appearances at The Pheasantry, Kings Road, and Crazy Coqs in Soho, London, The Blue Hour returns to Crazy Coqs on Sunday 17th January 2021 at 3pm. Booking opens in mid-November.

In 1930, two young revolutionaries burst onto the German art scene with their first opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht proved to be short-lived, but their work transformed the world of music and theatre forever.

We capture the beauty, decadence and political upheaval of Weimar Germany in The Blue Hour, a cabaret event which examines the subversive songs of Brecht and Weill together with their compatriots Eisler, Hollander and Spoliansky, and presents them in entirely new settings, with modern orchestrations and fresh translations.

The audience is invited to experience the familiar and unfamiliar masterpieces of the Weimar era in bold colours, and reflect on parallels with our own uncertain times.

Acclaimed vocalist Sarah Gabriel and award-winning composer-pianist Tim Sutton (National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company) cellist Gabriella Swallow (tours with Hugh Jackman, Rob Brydon) and percussionist Beth Higham-Edwards (National Theatre, The Globe) recreate the shock of the new in The Blue Hour.

In space, can anyone hear you sing? Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969, Fly Me to the Moon is a unique and special, warm and witty one-hour expedition to our nearest neighbour in outer space.

Author and presenter Lucy Hawking, soprano and actor Sarah Gabriel, and composer and music director Joseph Atkins with director Richard Williams explore human journeys into space, alongside the music that astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts have taken with them. The show incorporates song, film, historic artefacts, possible communication with the International Space Station, some recently revealed secrets from NASA, and a ride on Lucy’s friend’s moon buggy.

With songs dedicated to the mysteries of the night skies by Schumann and Schubert, Elizabeth Maconchy, Haydn, Samuel Barber, and mash-ups of David Bowie, Pink Floyd, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', Mozart and Monteverdi, Fly Me to the Moon investigates the ancient and constant human desire to capture what lies beyond us - to learn how different it might be 'up there', and, equally importantly perhaps, to discover what the universe shows us that we all have in common.

photo credit: Adam Cherrett

On 19th August 2019, Sarah, Steve and Stephen reunite across the oceans to explore songs of the jazz age again, this time with ‘These Foolish Things’, and songs written at a time when politics and world events were anything but frivolous or ‘foolish’.

George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and lyricist Dorothy Field sit alongside European counterparts: Noel Coward, Kurt Weill, and the doyennes of Parisian cabaret, Marguerite Monnot and Edith Piaf.

Sarah Gabriel soprano
Steve Dummer clarinet
Stephen De Pledge piano

In autumn 2019, Sarah Gabriel, soprano, and Viv McLean, piano, launch their latest project, Palindrome, with transcriptions for voice and piano by Liszt, Rachmaninov, and others.

Following their first performance in July 2016, Concert for Europe met again on 29th March 2019 to perform Beethoven’s 9th Symphony to a sell-out audience at St. John’s Smith Square, London.

Established by Stuart Poyser, with all proceeds going to Medecins sans Frontieres, the choir and orchestra comprised people from across the country. Conducted by Robin Browning, with Sarah Gabriel, Claire Filer, Ben Thapa and Simon Wallfisch as soloists.