Robert Hugill

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Past Events

Date	Time	Location	Details
Dec 7th 2023 7:30pm	7:30pm	St Martin Ludgate, 40 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7DE	O Magnum Mysterium: London Concord Singers at St Martin Ludgate London Concord Singers look forward to the Nativity with two contrasting settings of O Magnum Mysterium by Palestrina and the 20th-century French composer Pierre Villette. We also celebrate William Byrd with a performance of his Mass for Four Voices, written in the 1590s for use at clandestine Mass celebrations in recusant households. The programme is completed with 16th century composer Antoine Brumel's gloriously celebratory Laudate Dominum, originally written for the Sistine Chapel.
Feb 3rd 2023 7:00pm	7:00pm	Hinde Street Methodist Church, 19 Thayer Street, London	An evening of music by contemporary composer Robert Hugill for LGBT History Month featuring the world premieres of two cantatas. Out of the Shadows takes us from the earliest tentative admissions of same sex attraction, to cruising cruising in a hostile climate and a visit to a bath house in Imperial Russia to Walt Whitman's unashamed admission of his sexuality. Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum moves between the certainty of the Latin creed, to explorations of cryogenics, the body-snatching of Burke and Hare and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, before resolving in the homoerotic pantheistic transcendentalism of Walt Whitman with its celebration of Death itself. Alongside these two will be a selection of Hugill’s songs, from love songs and settings of Michaelangelo’s sonnets to a depiction of an Aids candlelit memorial in Memorare. https://www.roberthugill.com/concerts
May 10th 2020 5:30pm	5:30pm	Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL	Pre-concert talk: In search of Bach: Bach’s cello suites are tantalising works. We have little in the way of secure background and no autograph. We know neither when, nor for whom, they were written. There is even a dispute about the exact instrument for which they were written.
Apr 5th 2020 5:30pm	5:30pm	Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL	Pre concert talk: A Tale of Two Friendships: From the moment that the young Brahms knocked on the Schumanns’ door and played them his music, the three composers had a strong relationship. In the different circumstances of Soviet Russia, Shostakovich and Weinberg also developed a creative friendship
Feb 23rd 2020 5:30pm	5:30pm	Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL	Pre-concert talk - The History of Cello Sonata: Growing out of the continuo sonata, the history of the cello sonata is one of the liberation of the cello. In early sonatas it doubled the keyboard, and we look at how the sonata moved towards the romantic, dramatic music of Brahms and of Shostakovich
Jan 19th 2020 5:30pm	5:30pm	Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL	Pre-concert talk - Breaking new ground: How Beethoven’s violin sonatas developed from his early works, firmly based on 18th century models, to something more developed, representing a real break with the past and culminating in the Kreutzer Sonata, the largest and most demanding