The Song Sung True at Spitalfields Music Festival
Innovative choral works from the 20th century to the present at St Giles Cripplegate
Time & Location
Jul 03, 2026, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
St Giles Cripplegate, Fore St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DA, UK
About the Event
Returning to the Spitalfields Music Festival for a showcase of seminal choral works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including rarely performed masterpieces by near contemporaries Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur and Luigi Dallapiccola. Both composers reimagine archaic ideas in their individual modernist languages, producing works of technicolour splendour and richness.
The spirit of daring innovation continues with the London premieres of four new works by a wave of fresh talent from Composer Academy, presented each year at Cheltenham Music Festival in partnership with Spitalfields Music.
The concert begins with Judith Weir's vibrant multi-movement piece The Song Sung True, in which she distills the 'life-giving activity of singing'.
Programme:
Judith Weir The Song Sung True
Cloe Hotham Oak