Fantasia Orchestra with Lucy Crowe: Birdsong

Sunday
23
November
2025
,
7:00 pm

Smith Square Hall, London, SW1P 3HA

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Vivaldi Spring from Four Seasons: Allegro

Handel As When the Dove Laments Her Love

Price Little Pastorale

Trad. She’s Like the Swallow

Mozart Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro

Blasio Kavuma I am the sea (London premiere)

Messiaen The Lovebird of the Star from Harawi

Strauss Spring from Four Last Songs

Interval

Haydn Symphony no. 83 'The Hen'

Berg The Nightingale from Seven Early Songs

Sherwin A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Gershwin Little Jazz Bird

Kosma Autumn Leaves

Lucy Crowe
Soprano
Tom Fetherstonhaugh
Conductor
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We open 2025/26 by making our debut at Smith Square Hall. Inspired by the enduring symbolism of birdsong in music, this concert brings together some of the most expressive and imaginative works from across the centuries.

Joined by the phenomenal soprano Lucy Crowe, we journey across centuries and styles. From Handel and Haydn’s bright elegance to the vivid, kaleidoscopic textures of Messiaen, and from Berg’s exquisite The Nightingale to Gershwin’s jazz-tinged lyricism, come for an inspiring and beautiful range of music.

This concert promises to be a celebration of voice, nature and musical storytelling, and a chance to hear one of the UK’s finest singers in a concert that takes flight in every sense.

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Smith Square Hall

Smith Square Hall is a concert hall in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster.

Smith Square Hall, London, SW1P 3HA