​On Thursday 19 September 2019, our 2018/19 Monteverdi Apprentices, alongside members of the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists and under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner, performed their final recital in the intimate surroundings of King’s College London’s Chapel.

An essential conclusion to the Apprentices’ time embedded amongst the Monteverdi ensembles, this recital gave Apprentices the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities as a free-standing vocal consort, consolidate the musical, technical and stylistic developments that defined their Apprentice year and – perhaps most importantly – enabled a wider audience to see them at work under the baton of one of the world’s greatest living conductors.

Programme:

Brahms - Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram, Op. 113, No. 8

Monteverdi - Vattene pur, crudel (Madrigals Book 3, 1592)

Monteverdi - Vivrò fra i miei tormenti (Madrigals Book 3, 1592)

Schütz - Ich beschwöre euch, SWV 339

Bach - Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

Purcell - Let mine eyes run down with tears

Brahms - Nachtwache I, Nachtwache II, Letztes Glück (from Fünf Gesänge, Op. 104, No. 1, 2 & 3)

Saint-Saëns - Calme des nuits, Op. 68, No. 1

Fauré - Madrigal, Op. 35

Grainger - I’m Seventeen Come Sunday

Grainger - Danny Boy (encore)

2018/2019 Monteverdi Apprentices
Sam Cobb - soprano
Jonathan Hanley - tenor
Laura Jarrell - soprano
Michael Lafferty - baritone
Charlotte La Thrope - soprano
Angus McPhee - baritone
Victoria Meteyard - soprano
James Quilligan - bass-baritone
Margarita Slepakova - mezzo-soprano

For biographies of our 2018/19 Apprentices, please click here, and for our regularly-updated Apprentices blog please click here.