Our Advent celebration welcomes a singer whom many will remember from Tudeley Festival days. Soprano Katherine Manley has forged a career now based in Berlin, and SSEMK is delighted that she has accepted to perform with The London Handel Players, one of this country’s leading period ensembles. A finalist in the 2005 London Handel Singing competition, Manley’s lyric soprano has captivated many audiences and reviewers alike: “She possesses all the ingredients for success — striking looks, dramatic flair and a spellbinding voice. Manley showed an easy affinity for Handel's writing and brought depth and a kind of dewy naturalism to her singing, managing to project in even her most hushed moments." For over twenty years, since making their debut at Handel’s parish church, St. George’s Hanover Square, as part of the London Handel Festival in 2000, the London Handel Players have thrilled audiences across the world with their performances and recordings. Praised by the New York Times for their “soulful depth” and their “consummate skill and musicianship”, the ensemble appears regularly at major venues and festivals both around the UK and internationally, specialising in baroque chamber music and concertos and collaborating with some of the world’s leading singers.
Sunday 8 December 2024 - 3pm
Church of St Mary Kenardington
Katherine Manley soprano
London Handel Players
Praetorius: In Dulci Jubilo
Dances from Terpsichore
Frescobaldi: Capriccio pastorale
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E major RV 270:
Il Riposo, per Il Santo Natale
Charpentier: Noëls sur les Instruments H.534
A. Scarlatti: Cantata Pastorale per la Pascità di Nostro Signore
Mozart Flute Quartet in D major K.285
English Traditional Carols:
Sweet was the song the Virgin sang
Past Three O’Clock
Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op.VI No.8 in G minor:
Fatto per la notte di Natale
J. S. Bach: Öffne dich, mein ganzes Herze
Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn
Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe
Tickets: £27.50 / £25.00 / £17.50
