With Yvonne Howard, Mezzo Soprano

High quality, stylish performance in this evocative blend of Classical and Popular music: Mozart, Haydn and Mahler, Strauss and Lehar,Viennese Cabby Songs and distant echoes of the Sound of Music. English Serenata’s sparkling evening begins with these words, accompanied by “Tales from the Vienna Woods”
“Vienna, City of music.You have to love it, this powerful, happy, beautiful old city on the River Danube. “

Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano, is a soloist at Covent Garden Opera.

Distinguished Musicians
English Serenata is a versatile chamber ensemble of distinguished musicians, directed by Gabrielle Byam-Grounds. It tours and broadcasts at home and abroad
with leading Royal Shakespeare Company actors and TV and Radio personalities.

Venues include Prague Castle, Queen Elizabeth Hall,The Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon,The Barbican, Buckingham Palace by invitation of the Prince of Wales and festivals in Jersey and Bromsgrove, the latter with Willard White.

In September 2006 English Serenata released its new CD:“Shakespeare Songs and Chamber music of Howard Blake”. English Serenata has broadcast regularly on BBC and Independent Radio and TV.