The Four Seasons & The Lark Ascending by Candlelight

London Concertante

Candlelight Concerts

Sat 26 Sep ’26 19:30 - 21:30

Sat 26 Sep ’26

19:30 - 21:30

Sat 26 Sep ’26

Doors open

18:45

Start

19:30

Approx. end

21:30

Bath Abbey, BA1 1LT

Tickets
Tickets from £29 (inc. ticket and order* fees)

*all orders include a £1.50 processing fee

Experience breathtaking music by some of classical music’s greatest composers, performed by some of the country’s finest classical musicians, all presented in stunning candlelight.

At the heart of the concert is Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the most recorded work in classical music and a defining showpiece for solo violin. Each concerto depicts a different season, shaped by accompanying poems – possibly written by Vivaldi himself. Across the four concertos, Vivaldi transforms the natural world into vivid musical scenes, evoking birdsong and buzzing flies, harvest celebrations, drunken revellers, barking dogs, summer storms and winter ice.

Alongside this, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, composed on the eve of the First World War, offers a more reflective perspective. Inspired by George Meredith’s poem, it captures a pastoral world on the brink of change, its soaring violin line suggesting a lark gliding high above the mechanised world below, “lost on his aerial rings / In light, and then the fancy sings.”

Opening the programme we have Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, an opera drawn from Beaumarchais’ recently banned comedy, in which a philandering count attempts to seduce his servant’s fiancée, only to be outmanoeuvred by the servants and his own long-suffering wife.

Whether you’re already in the know or completely new to classical music, this is a programme to be enjoyed by all.

Programme to include:
Mozart – Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Mozart – Flute Quartet in D
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

Artists
Charlie Lovell-Jones - Soloist

Seating is unreserved within each ticket band and is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The only exception is VIP tickets, which include reserved seating.

VIP tickets include reserved seating in the front two rows of the main nave, a complimentary drink from the bar, and a CD of your choice to collect from the CD desk on the night of the concert.

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