Helen Charlston and Toby Carr
Heaven & Hell
Yours to Choose
Inspired by the vivid music of Purcell, Charpentier, Stozzi and Monteverdi, this programme is specially curated for the glorious surroundings of the Merchant Adventurers Hall and showcases the premiere of a 2025 NCEM commission from composer Anna Disley-Simpson.
Gramophone award winners Helen Charston and Toby Carr ferry us to the underworld to find out what lies on the other side. In a journey that tussles between doubt and faith, encounters the darkest hell in the warmest embrace and confronts the reality of free will, what will your choice be?
Gramophone award winners Helen Charston and Toby Carr ferry us to the underworld to find out what lies on the other side. In a journey that tussles between doubt and faith, encounters the darkest hell in the warmest embrace and confronts the reality of free will, what will your choice be?
York Early Music Festival
Wed 9 July 2025
Merchant Adventurers Hall, York
6:30pm
£45
Full Event Details
Inspired by the vivid music of Purcell, Charpentier, Stozzi and Monteverdi, this programme is specially curated for the glorious surroundings of the Merchant Adventurers Hall and showcases the premiere of a 2025 NCEM commission from composer Anna Disley-Simpson.
Gramophone award winners Helen Charston and Toby Carr ferry us to the underworld to find out what lies on the other side. In a journey that tussles between doubt and faith, encounters the darkest hell in the warmest embrace and confronts the reality of free will, what will your choice be?
Venue Details & Map
Location
Merchant Adventurers Hall, York
Fossgate, York YO1 9XD
Related upcoming events
My Days
Fretwork
- Fri 4 July 2025
- Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
- 6:30pm
- £35 / £40
- York Early Music Festival
The Four Seasons
Dr Hannah French
- Sat 5 July 2025
- Bedern Hall, York
- 10:30am
- £12.50
- York Early Music Festival
- ➕1 other performance
The First Spanish Guitar
Pablo Zapico
- Sat 5 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 5:15pm
- £22 / £20 / £10 u35
- York Early Music Festival
Glorious Creatures
The Tallis Scholars
- Sat 5 July 2025
- York Minster
- 7:30pm
- £40.00 / £30 / £15.00
- York Early Music Festival
Purcell and Telemann
Minster Minstrels
- Sun 6 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 11:00am
- £12.50
- York Early Music Festival
BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show
Dr Hannah French
- Sun 6 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 4:45pm
- Free event
- York Early Music Festival
Concertos on the Edge
Ensemble Hesperi
- Mon 7 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 1:00pm
- £12.50
- York Early Music Festival
Angel of Peace
The Sixteen Choir
- Mon 7 July 2025
- York Minster, York
- 7:30pm
- £40 / £15
- York Early Music Festival
Summer Nights
York Early Music Festival
- Mon 7 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 10:00pm
- £22 / £20
- York Early Music Festival
Bach Sacred and Secular
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
- Tue 8 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 1:00pm
- £24 / £22
- York Early Music Festival
The Silver Swan
Rose Consort of Viols
- Wed 9 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 1:00pm
- £24.00 / £22.00
- York Early Music Festival
Phantasma
Ensemble Bastion
- Thu 10 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 1:00pm
- £22 / £20
- York Early Music Festival
The Angels are Singing
Sollazzo
- Thu 10 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 7:00pm
- £28 / £26
- York Early Music Festival
Erbarme Dich!
Ayres Extemporae
- Fri 11 July 2025
- National Centre for Early Music, York
- 1:00pm
- £22 / £20
- York Early Music Festival
Concerto Heaven
Academy of Ancient Music
- Fri 11 July 2025
- Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
- 7:00pm
- £40 / £35
- York Early Music Festival