VOCES8 and star violinist Jack Liebeck come together with strings for this special concert on the theme of birds and landscape, featuring music by Ola Gjeilo, Samuel Barber, Vaughan Williams and many more.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams is celebrated with the iconic The Lark Ascending as well as his 3 Shakespeare Songs. Stanford’s famous The Bluebird is included, as are works from VOCES8’s current composer-in-residence Roxanna Panufnik, Jonathan Dove and Paul Smith. Bridging the Atlantic are works for voices and strings by some of the USA’s most exciting composers: Ola Gjeilo, Caroline Shaw, Eric Whitacre, Taylor Scott Davis and Samuel Barber whose cherished Agnus Dei / Adagio for Strings will be performed in a new version.

The cherry on top is a suite of movements from the group’s new Decca Classics album release The Lost Birds by Christopher Tin, completing the sound-world for what promises to be a very special concert.

VOCES8 and Jack Liebeck performing Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, in an arrangement by Paul Drayton: