With Mother’s Day just around the corner, the talented musical team at St Martin-in-the-Fields have been working on a beautiful spring-themed Mother’s Day concert, ‘The Gift of Life.’ The online concert features selected movements from Rutter’s Gift of Life, Britten’s The Evening Primrose and more.

The team at St Martin’s have been working hard behind the scenes to create a special, uplifting online concert to be enjoyed by mums and the whole family, being launched just in time for Mother’s Day. Taking inspiration from the joyful colours of spring, the online concert includes beautiful choral pieces from Britten’s The Evening Primrose and There is No Rose, as well as Gorecki’s Totus Tuus, Holst’s Hymn to the Dawn and Weir’s My Guardian Angel.

The pre-recorded concert is set in daytime within the tulip-decorated church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, with the St Martin’s performers all wearing exquisite spring colours of flowers and pastels.

The 45-minute-long concert, ‘The Gift of Life’, has been designed to bring families a relaxing, uplifting, beautiful ensemble of classical music to be enjoyed from the comfort of their own homes. The music promises to offer an escape to the most serene of spaces with St Martin’s Players and Voices transporting the listeners to a divinely relaxing headspace – the perfect gift for Mothering Sunday.

‘The Gift of Life’ concert will be available to stream online from Saturday, as of 1pm, for just £10: http://www.smitf.org/gift-of-life.

Dr Andrew Earis, Director of Music at St Martin-in-the-Fields, commented:

“Mother’s Day is a wonderful time of the year where families can enjoy some quality time together. We have been working hard as a team to create a lovely, warm, uplifting concert that can be enjoyed by all and hope that this is the gift that keeps on giving for all those who choose to stream it – not just to be viewed and enjoyed on Mother’s Day, but for the next 60 days that it will be online. The music has been carefully selected to ensure it is both relaxing and calming so that people can hear the best of our musicians. This has been a really fun concert to work on and we hope that all will enjoy this musical treat.”