LondonClassicalConcerts

Wigmore Hall, 22-Jun-2020 / 13:00

Recital with lutist Elizabeth Kenny

• Purcell,
  • By beauteous softness mixed with majesty from Now Does the Glorious Day Appear (Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday) Z332
  • Lord, what is man? (A Divine Hymn) Z192
  • Rigadoon (arr. Elizabeth Kenny)
  • Sefauchi's Farewell Z656 (arr. Elizabeth Kenny)
  • Lilbulero Z646
• Thomas Campion:
  • The sypres curten of the night is spread
  • I care not for these ladies
• Anon: Mr Confess' Coranto
• Mozart: Abendempfindung K523
• Schubert: Heidenröslein D257 and Am Tage aller Seelen D343

Mr. Davies performed:

• > in Vivaldi's Gloria with the OAE at the Royal Festival Hall on the 11^th of November 2019. For more details see Rowan Pierce,
• > the role of Ottone in Handel's Agrippina with Lucy Crowe as Poppea at the Royal opera House in October and November 2019.

Wigmore Hall, 16-Sep-2019 / 19:30

• Handel:
  • Agrippina HWV6
    • Coronato il crin d'alloro
    • Tacerò, tacerò
    • Otton, qual portentoso fulmine ... Voi che udite il mio lamento
  • L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato HWV55:
    • Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy
    • Hide me from day's garish eye
    • May at last my weary age

• Iestyn Davies - Countertenor
• The English Concert
• Trevor Pinnock - Director, harpsichord

Iestyn Davies performed on the 4^th of January 2019 at the Wigmore Hall.

Barbican Hall, 19-Dec-2018 / 19:30

Handel: Messiah

• Britten Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shave - Violin and director, Sophie Bevan, Iestyn Davies, Allan Clayton - Tenor, Roderick Williams, Britten Sinfonia Voices

Kings Place, 23-Nov-2018 / 19:30

• Adès:
  • The Lover in Winter
  • The Four Quarters
• Nico Muhly:
  • Motion
  • Old Bones (world premiere of new arrangement)
• Brahms: Gestillte Sehnsucht

• Iestyn Davies
• Sally Pryce - Harp
• John Reid - Piano
• Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra

Mr. Davies performed on the 7^th of September 2018 with Benjamin Hulett.

Wigmore Hall, 2-Jun-2018 / 19:30

Recital with soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton

• Purcell:
  • Sound the trumpet Z323
  • Lost is my quiet forever Z502

Milton Court Concert Hall, 28-May-2018 / 19:30

Recital with Fretwork

• Michael Nyman:
  • No Time in Eternity
  • Music after a While (world premiere)
  • Balancing the Books
  • If (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
  • Why (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
  • Self-laudatory hymn of Inanna and her omnipotence
• Purcell:
  • Two Fantazies in four parts
  • Music for a While
  • An Evening Hymn
  • Fantazy in four parts
  • Fantazy upon one note

Mr. Davies performed with Sophie Bevan on the 13^th of May 2018 and sang with the Academy of Ancient Music and James Gilchrist in Bach's St John Passion BWV245 on the 30^th of March 2018 at the Barbican Hall.

Barbican Hall, 13-Mar-2018 / 18:30

Handel: Rinaldo (Concert performance)

• The English Concert, Harry Bicket - Conductor, Iestyn Davies as Rinaldo, Joelle Harvey as Almirena, Luca Pisaroni as Argante, Jakub Józef Orliński as Eustazio

Royal Albert Hall, 30-Jul-2017 / 19:00

• James MacMillan: A European Requiem (European premiere)
• Beethoven: 'Choral' Symphony

• BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Xian Zhang - Conductor
• CBSO Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales
• Erin Wall - Soprano, Sonia Prina - Mezzo-soprano
• Iestyn Davies, Simon O'Neill - Tenor
• Jacques Imbrailo - Baritone, Alexander Vinogradov - Bass

St John's Smith Square, 14-Apr-2017 / 14:30

Bach: St John Passion

• Polyphony, Stephen Layton - Director, OAE, Nicholas Pritchard as Evangelist, Neal Davies as Christus, Julia Doyle as Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Gwilym Bowen - Tenor and Ashley Riches

Royal Festival Hall, 2-Apr-2017 / 11:00

Bach: St Matthew Passion (performed in English)

• Florilegium, The Bach Choir, David Hill - Conductor, Toby Spence - Tenor, Matthew Best - Christus, Sarah Tynan - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Andrew Staples - Tenor and Roderick Williams

St John's Smith Square, 22-Dec-2016 / 19:30

Bach: B Minor Mass

• The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton - Conductor, OAE, Katherine Watson - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Gwilym Bowen - Tenor, Neal Davies - Bass

Wigmore Hall, 10-Nov-2016 / 19:30

Recital with lutist Thomas Dunford

• John Dowland:
  • All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed
  • Come away, come sweet love
  • A fancy
  • My thoughts are winged with hopes
  • Say, love if ever thou didst find
  • I saw my Lady weep, Flow my tears, Shall I strive with words to move, Can she excuse my wrongs, In darkness let me dwell, Semper Dowland semper dolens, "Go, crystal tears", Come again! Sweet love doth now invite, "Now, O now I needs must part"

Barbican Hall, 10-Oct-2016 / 19:00

Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Semi-Staged performance)

• Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr - Director, harpsichord
• Rowan Pierce (replaced Sarah Tynan - Soprano), Mhairi Lawson - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Charles Daniels - Tenor, Ashley Riches - Bass, Choir of the AAM

Cadogan Hall, 5-Sep-2016 / 13:00

• Songs by Purcell (arr. Britten), Mendelssohn and Quilter, including settings of Shakespeare.

• Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Middleton - Piano

Royal Festival Hall, 5-Jun-2016 / 19:30

Bach: Mass in B minor

• Florilegium, David Hill - Conductor, Susan Gritton - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Ed Lyon - Tenor, Neal Davies - Bass, The Bach Choir

Royal Festival Hall, 23-Apr-2016 / 19:30

• Verdi: Excerpts from Otello
• Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Hamlet
• Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
• Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1
• Mendelssohn: Excerpts from the Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Part 1
• Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Op.64
• Thomas Adès: Excerpts from The Tempest
• Verdi: Falstaff, Act 3, Scene 2

• Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor
• Kate Royal - Soprano
• Dame Felicity Palmer - Mezzo-soprano
• Iestyn Davies - Countertenor
• Ronald Samm - Tenor
• Simon Keenlyside - Baritone
• Andrew Shore - Baritone
• The Glyndebourne Chorus

St John's Smith Square, 25-Mar-2016 / 14:30

Bach: St John Passion

• Stuart Jackson - Evangelist, Neal Davies - Christus, Julia Doyle - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Gwilym Bowen - Tenor, Roderick Williams - Bass, Polyphony, Stephen Layton - Director

Barbican Hall, 1-Mar-2016 / 19:00

Handel: Orlando

• The English Concert, Harry Bicket - Conductor, Iestyn Davies as Orlando, Erin Morley as Angelica, Carolyn Sampson as Dorinda, Sasha Cook as Medoro, Kyle Ketelsen as Zoroastro

St John's Smith Square, 23-Dec-2015 / 19:30

Handel: Messiah

• Polyphony, OAE, Katherine Watson - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Gwilym Bowen - Tenor, Neal Davies - Bass, Stephen Layton - Conductor

St John's Smith Square, 22-Dec-2015 / 19:30

For programme and performers please see 22nd of December 2016.

Kings Place, 18-Dec-2015 / 19:30

• Taverner:
  • Missa Gloria tibi trinitas
  • Nipson for countertenor and viol consort (1998)
  • The Hidden Face for countertenor, oboe and viol consort (1996)

• Iestyn Davies - Countertenor
• Nicholas Daniel - Oboe
• Fretwork - Viol consort

Barbican Hall, 15-Dec-2015 / 19:30

Handel: Messiah

• Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia with Eamonn Dougan conducting, Carolyn Sampson - Soprano, Iestyn Davies, Allan Clayton - Tenor, Robert Davies - Bass

Wigmore Hall, 4-Dec-2015 / 19:30

• Purcell:
  • Music for a while Z583 (arr. Sir Michael Tippett)
  • Sweeter than roses Z585 (arr. Benjamin Britten)
  • Sound the trumpet Z323 (arr. Benjamin Britten)
• Britten::
  • Canticle I: My beloved is mine Op. 40
  • Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac Op. 51
  • Sally in our Alley
  • The Plough Boy
  • I wonder as I wander
  • Oliver Cromwell
• Thomas Adès: The Lover in Winter
• Nico Muhly, Barber

• Iestyn Davies - Countertenor
• Allan Clayton - Tenor
• James Baillieu - Piano

Wigmore Hall, 12-Sep-2015

Recital with The English Concert

• Handel:
  • Partenope HWV27
    • Sento Amor con novi dardi, Ch'io parta? Sì, crudele, Furibondo spira il vento
  • Rinaldo HWV7
    • Arias Cara sposa and Venti turbine
  • Rodelinda HWV19
    • Pompe vane di morte... Dove sei, amato bene?
  • Orlando HWV31
    • Ah! Stigie larve!, Già l'ebro mio ciglio, Ma la furia, "Vaghe pupille, non piangete", Fammi combattere and "Già per la man d'Orlando... Già l'ebro mio ciglio"
  • Radamisto HWV12
    • Passacaille

Mr. Davies performed with Ben Johnson and Elizabeth Watts in Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival Hall on the 29th of March 2015.

St John's Smith Square, 22-Dec-2014 / 19:30

For programme and performers please see 22nd of December 2016.

Wigmore Hall, 24-Jun-2014 / 19:30

• JC Bach: Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento)
• Bach:
• Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV170

• John Butt - Director
• Iestyn Davies
• For more details see Dunedin Consort.

Wigmore Hall, 15-Jun-2014 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Malcolm Martineau

• Michael Howard: The Painted Rose
  • No. 1 The Painted Rose, No. 2 So by my singing I am comforted, No. 3 Before sleep, No. 4 David's Lament for Jonathan
• William Croft: A Hymn on Divine Musick (realised by Britten)
• Jeremiah Clarke: A Divine Hymn (realised by Britten)
• Byrd: Ye sacred muses
• Howells:
  • When the dew is falling, The little boy lost, Full moon
• Dunhill: The Cloths of Heaven
• Stanford: La Belle Dame sans merci
• Francis Alan Jackson:
  • Tree at my window, From a railway carriage Gurney
• Philip Moore:
  • Summer Nights, Cradle Song
• Cyril Bradley Rootham:
  • Everyone Sang, Idyll, A Supplication
• Henry Walford Davies: No. 4 I love the Jocund Dance from Six Songs Op. 18
• Ivor Gurney: No. 3 The Apple Orchard from Seven Sappho Songs
• Ivor Novello: Fly Home Little Heart

LSO St Luke's, 1-May-2014

Recital with the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon

• Nico Muhly: Drones on 'O Lord, whose mercies numberless'
• Gluck: Che puro ciel from Orfeo ed Euridice

Mr. Davies made his BBC Proms debut on the 31st of July 2008 as Ottone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment directed by Emmanuelle Haïm.