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Tuesday 4 December: Tickets still available for 21.30 concert!

A pair of Christmas concerts on Tuesday 4 December open Gabrieli’s exciting 2007/08 season at Christ Church Spitalfields.  Though the 19.00 concert is sold out, it’s not too late to book for the second concert at 21.30.  This hour-long concert of splendid Christmas music is the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit and appreciate the grandeur of Christ Church’s architecture.  The polychoral music of Praetorious will ring out from the galleries, interspersed with staples of the English choral repertoire.

Come at 21.00 and enjoy pre-concert festive drinks.  Tickets are available through the Barbican Box Office: 0845 120 7543 or online.

Why not also book ahead for Gabrieli’s other winter concerts at Christ Church?

Handel: La Resurrezione
Tuesday 29 January 2008, 7:30 pm
Soloists: Rosemary Joshua, Gillian Webster, Sonia Prina, Topi Lehtipuu, Jonathan Lemalu

A rare opportunity to hear a tremendous cast of soloists perform Handel's virtuosic and colourful masterpiece.

"McCreesh drew some magnificent playing from his orchestral forces, living and breathing the changing emotions of what is essentially a drama of expectation." The Daily Telegraph on Handel's La Resurrezione (2002)

Three Odes for Saint Cecilia
Thursday 21 February 2008, 7:30 pm
Soloists: Susan Hemington Jones, Grace Davidson, Amy Moore, Daniel Taylor, Christopher Watson, Jeremy Budd, Richard Butler, Benjamin Davies, Mark Stone

Purcell's intimate early masterpiece 'Welcome to all the Pleasures' is contrasted by his most extrovert ode 'Hail, Bright Cecilia' for seven solo voices and full baroque orchestra. Britten's music was hugely indebted to Purcell's style and his own ode to the Patron Saint of music provides a worthy companion piece.

Both are on sale at the Barbican Box Office: 0845 120 7543 and online - for La Resurrezione - for Three Odes.