KCS presents a summer programme focusing on the natural world. featuring music by Leonard Bernstein, Elgar, Holst, Howells, Parry, Purcell, Stanford and Dowland in his 400th anniversary year. These diverse pieces share a focus on the natural world. Part one of the concert delights in all things pastoral in a series of anthems, partsongs and folk songs.

Part two introduces the ominous note of threats to nature, with Cecilia McDowall's haunting cantata, The Ice is Listening. Inspired by accounts of seventeenth and eighteenth century frost fairs on the River Thames, this gorgeous work evokes nature's fragile balance – a theme amplified by Raymond Yiu's rich song cycle for soprano, The Earth and Every Common Sight, which urgently addresses the peril of climate change.

The evening ends with the finale from Bernstein's operetta, Candide. After the ravages of war, maleficence and natural disasters, the lovers find peace in cultivating their small patch of land – nature as healer.