TENTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERTS
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PAST EVENTS
Cheltenham Music Festival 2021
3 JULY
Programme:
Two settings of poems by Ernst Viktor Knape:
Jean Sibelius Män från slätten och havet (Men from plain and sea)
Einojuhani Rautavaara Sommarnatten (The summer night)
Arnold Bax Five Greek Folksongs
Alex Freeman Calle sin nombre (Street with no name) (UK premiere)
Undine Smith Moore We shall walk through the valley in peace
Matthew Whittall Songs of Travel (World premiere)
In the Footsteps of Hubert Parry
HIGHNAM PARISH CHURCH
CHURCH OF ST GREGORY THE GREAT, CHELTENHAM
We are immensely proud to have been Ensemble in Residence at the 2021 Cheltenham Music Festival.
George Parris led a guided tour of the Highnam Estate, once home to the composer Hubert Parry.
5 JULY
Classical Mixtape
GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL
In the glorious setting of Gloucester Cathedral we performed alongside cellist Clare O'Connell and trumpeter Aaron Diaz and gave the world premiere of Lillie Harris's 'The Dusk of Thee'.
6-9 JULY
Composer Academy
We worked alongside composer Daniel Kidane bringing new works by six early-career composers to life. The week ended with six world premiere performances in the Pittville Pump Room as part of the Composium event.
Aileen Sweeney Canntaireachd
Electra Perivolaris If this island...
Will Harmer Loneliness
Claire Victoria Roberts Interlude
James Batty Waneth the watch, the weaker ones dwell
Michele Deiana A new centre
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KINGS PLACE
3 JUNE
Programme
Elgar
Sibelius
Elgar
Sibelius
Elgar
Sibelius
Elgar
Sibelius
Whittall
RICHMOND CONCERT SOCIETY &
ST JAMES CHURCH,
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
Programme
Edward Elgar
Frederick Delius
Jean Sibelius
Leevi Madetoja
John Ireland
Rued Langaard
Edward Elgar
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arvo Pärt
George Parris
Ross Edwards
The Shower & The Fountain
On Craig Ddu
Sydämeni laulu (Song of my heart)
Onnelliset (The Happy Ones)
Spring, the sweet Spring
Lokkende Toner (Enticing tones)
Owls & O wild west wind!
Silence and music
The Deer's Cry
Now welcome somer
Sacred kingfisher psalms
HELSINKI
Saturday 22nd Feburary 2020
Sibelius Academy Concert Hall
My love dwelt in a northern land
Min rastas raataa (What the thrush toils)
Män från slätten och havet (Men from plain and sea) Evening Scene
The Fountain
Rakastava (The lover)
Love
Serenade
Sortunut ääni (The broken voice)
Saarella palaa (Fire on the island)
Owls (An Epitaph)
O Wild west wind!
Sydämeni laulu (Song of my heart)
Venematka (The boat journey)
Lauantaisauna (Saturday sauna)
Songs of Travel
4 JULY
PAST PROGRAMMES
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PROGRAMME:
Icelandic Hymn Heyr, himna smiður (Hear, smith of the heavens)
Edvard Grieg Hvad est du dog skjøn (How fair thou art)
Wilhelm Stenhammar September
Jean Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover)
Kaija Saariaho Nuits, Adieux (Nights, Farewell)
David Wikander Förvårskväll (Spring evening)
Matthew Whittall Lauantaisauna (Saturday sauna)
Per Nørgård Maya Danser (Maya Dances)
Arr. Ørjan Matre Halleluja, vår strid er endt (Halleluja, our struggle ends)
Karin Rehnqvist I himmelen (In Heaven's hall)
Premiered in 2018 at the Oxford Lieder Festival.
Subsequent performances at:
Cheltenham Music Festival
Swedish Church in London
St Mary's, Warwick
(July 2019)
TWELFTH
NIGHT
PROGRAMME
Samuel Barber Twelfth Night
Walter Lambe Nesciens Mater
Herbert Howells Here is a Little Door
Sing Lullaby
A spotless rose
Nicholas Ludford Ave Cujus Conceptio
Francis Poulenc Un Soir de Neige
Per Nørgård Winter Hymn
Robert White Christie qui lux es et dies
Gustav Mahler Um mitternacht (arr. Gottwald)
Peter Warlock The Rich Cavalcade
Bethlehem Down
Sergei Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo
London & Warwick
January 2019
Commemorating the centenary of Hubert Parry's death and the end of the First World War.
Eternal Be The Sleep
PROGRAMME:
Ivor Gurney Since I believe in God the Father Almighty
C. Hubert H. Parry Sorrow and pain
Cecilia McDowall I know that my redeemer liveth
C. Hubert H. Parry Love is a sickness
Edward Elgar They are at rest
Herbert Howells Psalm 121
Requiem aeternam (2)
Gustav Holst Nunc Dimittis
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C. Hubert H. Parry Songs of Farewell
In Memoriam
A special Remembrance Day concert in aid of
St Martin's Church Fabric Fund, the Royal British Legion, and Armed Forces Charity SSAFA.
Music included Parry's Songs of Farewell,
Howells Requiem, Jackson's Justorum Animae,
and Pearsall's Lay A Garland.
Barcheston, Warwickshire
SUNDAY 11th NOVEMBER, 2018
A special performance of Hubert Parry's poignant Songs of Farewell and other British choral works to mark the release of our new disc for BBC Music Magazine.
CD LAUNCH
ST. PAUL'S KNIGHTSBRIDGE, LONDON
5th OCTOBER 2018
Performed at Cheltenham Music Festival (July 2018), St. Peter's Bournemouth (October 2018), Music at Pinner (November 2018)
PROGRAMME:
Edward Elgar There is Sweet Music
Johannes Ockeghem Kyrie from Missa Prolationum
Johannes Brahms Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram
Josquin Des Prez Inviolata integra es
Guillaume Dufay Nuper rosarum flores
György Ligeti Lux aeterna
Arvo Pärt Nunc Dimittis
Per Nørgård Maya Danser (Maya Dances)
Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
The choir returned to Chipping Campden for a programme inspired by music's close connection to mathematics, including a piece supposedly written to reflect the proportions of Brunelleschi’s Duomo in Florence.
MUSIC'S MEASURE
PROGRAMME:
Icelandic hymn Heyr, himna smiður
C. Hubert H. Parry There is an old belief
Wilhelm Stenhammar September
Leevi Madetoja Kevätunta
(Dreaming of Spring)
C. Hubert H. Parry Never weather-beaten sail
Edvard Grieg Ved Rondane (At Rondane)
Percy Grainger A Song of Värmeland
Frederick Delius The splendour falls on castle walls
arr. Eyvind Alnaes Jeg lagde mig så sildig
(I lay down so late)
Toivo Kuula Nuku (Sleep)
Ina Boyle Gaelic Hymns
Arnold Bax This Worldes Joie
The Celtic North
The 'Celtic North' - a term used by the composer and poet Sir Arnold Bax in a radio interview of 1932 - refers to the atmosphere evoked by the landscapes of Ireland's Western seaboard, the Scottish Highlands, and parts of Fennoscandia which, for some at the turn of the twentieth century, proved inescapable.
27th APR
2018