Head to the Queen's House for an evening of musical delights, performed by vocal and instrumental ensemble Aúrion from Trinity Laban in the sumptuous surroundings of the Great Hall.
Aúrion brings together soprano, flute, guitar and double bass to provide an programme of poetry, contrasts and unexpected connections. The group will also be joined by guest pianist Mark Bromley.
At the heart of the concert is Dušan Bogdanović’s Crow, a vivid setting of Ted Hughes’s extraordinary poems, by turns fierce, darkly comic and tender. Songs by Roussel, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Gaubert explore landscapes of longing and enchantment, where a flute can become a bird, a lover or a distant voice.
Poulenc’s Sanglots draws private sorrow into a wider human story, before selections from Bogdanović’s Pure Land lead through intimacy and winter stillness to the fleeting brightness of Sunbird.