The Chamber Ensemble of London - up to 14 string players - is directed by the violinist Peter Fisher, amongst a handful of the world's finest musicians as The Times noted following a Royal Albert Hall concert in 2005. The Ensemble appears regularly at St Martin-in-the-Fields off Trafalgar Square in London. It has been associated for many years with the Wavendon Festival run by Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine.
The players are handpicked from London's best.
Their repertoire spans baroque, classical, romantic and new music.
Their CD "English Music for Strings" - a brilliant CD with a well-balanced programme (as John France commented in a Musicweb review) - was released by Campion Cameo in 2006. This has featured on BBC Radio 3. It is available from www.dimusic.co.uk
For bookings, contact Clive Jenkins -
clivejenkinsmusic@btinternet.com
or phone 01752 863348
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
MUSIC FOR THE ROYALS
Victoria & Albert Museum (Raphael Gallery) Friday, 9th March at 7.30
Purcell: Fairy Queen Suite
Boyce: Symphony No.1
Sullivan: Yeomen of the Guard
Eccles: Suite for Strings
Elgar: Serenade
Handel: Water Music
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Prince Albert: Pretty Baby
Mendelssohn: Nocturne
Binge: Elizabethan Serenade
Maxwell Davies: A Birthday Card for Prince Charles
Ellington: Sunset and the Mocking Bird
Jenkins: Majesty
Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
Concert for ASHFORD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 12th March, 2012
Purcell: Fairy Queen Suite
Avison: Concerto
Farnaby: Seven Pieces
Jenkins: Pastorale & Allegro
Boyce: Symphony No.1
INTERVAL
Handel: Concerto grosso
Elgar: Serenade
Purcell: Chacony
Fisher: Widdicombe Fair Variations in the Style of Paganini
For details, please contact:
Brenda McCormack
Hon. Secretary, Ashford Music Society
Tel: 01233-622971
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
MUSIC FOR THE OLYMPICS
Monday, 26th March at 12.15
Buffet lunch and concert at the Banqueting House, Whitehall
Tickets £22.50 – phone 020 3166 6153
or e-mail valerie.jarvis@hrp.org.uk
Vivaldi: L’olimpiade suite
Sport on Screen Selection
- Chariots of Fire
- Ski Sunday
- Wimbledon
- Sailing
Mozart: Musical Joke (Horse of the Year)
Satie: Gymnopédie No.1
Elgar: Serenade (cycling)
Fauré: Pavane (BBC World Cup 98)
Euripides George: Aquathlete (First performance)
Clive Jenkins: Variations on The Eton Boating Song
Opera Sports Selection
- Der Freischütz (shooting)
- Carmen (boxing!)
- William Tell (archery)
Saturday, 14th April at 7.30 pm - Tavistock Festival performance at St Eustachius’ Church
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
AN EVENING OF ENGLISH MUSIC
Soprano soloist: Suzanne Manuel
Handel: Overture and dances from Alcina
Handel: Tornami – aria from Alcina
Jenkins: White Bird – a Dartmoor legend with narration and soprano vocalise
Elgar: Serenade
Wilson : Huckworthy Bridge
Purcell: Chacony in G minor
Purcell: Dido’s Lament
Darke: Meditation on Brother James’s Air
Fisher: Variations on Widecombe Fair in the style of Paganini
Sunday, 15th April at 2.30pm – at St Peter’s Church, Shaldon
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
AN AFTERNOON OF ENGLISH MUSIC
Programme as for Tavistock.
Thursday, 10th May at 7pm
At St George's Church, Campden Hill Road, W8
Kensington & Chelsea Music Society
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
CHILDREN’S CONCERT
Programme:
Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Saint-Saens: Elephant
Saint-Saens: Swan
Jenkins: Allegro
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Rossini: La Danza
Britten: Simple Symphony
Fisher: Variations on Widecombe Fair in the Style of Paganini
Monday, 4th June at 2.30 pm in Silk Hall, Radley College, Abingdon OX14 2HR
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
Concert for English Music Festival
Avison: Concerto in A Op. 9 No.11
Farnaby: Seven Pieces (arr. Bantock)
Boughton: Three Folk Dances
Britten: Simple Symphony
Darke: Fantasy in E minor (reconstructed Jenkins)
Jenkins: Pastorale & Allegro
INTERVAL
Purcell: Fairy Queen Suite
Boyce: Symphony No.1
Ireland: Concertino Pastorale
Fisher: ‘Widecombe Fair’ Variations in the style of Paganini .
The Chamber Ensemble of London recently played two music-and-pictures programmes for the London Film Museum in County Hall. LFM liked the result and is redeveloping the programmes for commercial release on DVD. CEOL has recorded sound tracks for the following:
LONDON AND THE THAMES
The river from source to mouth with pictures old and new. Famous music - London Bridge, Eton Boating Song, Water Music, Yeomen of the Guard etc. all arranged for strings by Clive Jenkins, CEOL's associate composer, who has also contributed some new items.
LONDON FOUR SEASONS
Vivaldi's perennial musical masterpieces with appropriate visuals from LFM.
Following the success of CEOL's first CD for Campion records, 'English Music For Strings', a second CD featuring English string music across the ages is to be recorded in 2011.