Every Sunday in June St Mark’s runs a series of concerts. Lovely music in a serene setting. iLPH went to listen to the Lacock Scholars; it was on a Friday and did finish with Martin Shepherd’s book launch and a glass of wine!
The scholars are accomplished choristers drawn mainly from Oxbridge and sing unaccompanied. A lovely evening lost in voices celebrating creation. Eight pieces, sung one after the other without interruption, that were mesmerising.
Pieces by Rachmaninov, Britten and Debussy tied together with a focus on “O all ye works of the lord”. Uplifting and loving and captured by the conductor Greg Skidmore with the sentence “in the words of Gerard Manley Hopkins ‘nature is never spent’ and tomorrow is a new day…”.
The Lacock Scholars will be back soon at St Marks and will meanwhile be singing in Westminster Abbey on the 18th July (free admission). iLPH recommends giving them a listen as their music is special.
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