Elgar Festival - Thursday 1 June 7.30pm
Great Malvern Priory
English Symphony Orchestra
Saint Cecilia Singers
Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir
Jonathan Hope – organ
Kenneth Woods and Stephen Shellard – conductors
Ian Venables – Requiem 40’
William Grant Still – Summerland 3’
Edward Elgar – Mina 5’
Michael Berkeley – Visions of Piers Plowman 12’
Edward Elgar – Selections from his music for Arthur 20’
English Symphony Orchestra
Saint Cecilia Singers
Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir
Jonathan Hope – organ
Kenneth Woods and Stephen Shellard – conductors
Ian Venables – Requiem 40’
William Grant Still – Summerland 3’
Edward Elgar – Mina 5’
Michael Berkeley – Visions of Piers Plowman 12’
Edward Elgar – Selections from his music for Arthur 20’
A programme pairing the music of Worcester’s greatest living composer with that of Worcester’s greatest composer. Ian Venables’ beautiful Requiem has already become a modern classic, embraced by audiences and choirs across the UK, in its original form for organ and choir. Hear it here in a powerful new version for choir and orchestra.
Elgar’s touching and whimsical Mina is something of a mini-Requiem, written by Elgar in memory of his beloved dog. Visions of Piers Plowman is Michael Berkeley’s musical response to the epic medieval narrative poem by William Langland, drawn from the very Malvern Hills that so inspired Elgar.
Elgar’s touching and whimsical Mina is something of a mini-Requiem, written by Elgar in memory of his beloved dog. Visions of Piers Plowman is Michael Berkeley’s musical response to the epic medieval narrative poem by William Langland, drawn from the very Malvern Hills that so inspired Elgar.
Tickets £20 from Elgar Festival website
or call Worcester Theatres – 01905 611 427
Three Choirs Festival Evensong- Saturday 22 July 5.30pm
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Gloucester Cathedral
Humphrey Clucas Responses Stainer Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat Elgar Great is the Lord The Saint Cecilia Singers will sing the first Evensong of the 2023 Three Choirs Festival FREE no ticket required |
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Three Choirs Festival - Tuesday 25 July 10.30pm
A Feast of Slavic Music
Gloucester Cathedral Chapter House
Bortniansky Cherubic Hymn No 7 4'
Bortniansky Let My Prayer Arise 7'
Lyatoshinsky from 3 Songs on Tajik Themes, Op. 25 6'
Smetana From My Homeland 6'
Trad. The Songbird; The Mayday Tree 5'
Paweł Łukaszewski Two Lenten Motets 8'
Bortkiewicz Prelude in F sharp, Op. 33 No 7 4'
Kosenko Nocturne-Fantasia in C sharp minor, Op. 4 8'
Dvořák Songs My Mother Taught Me 5'
Feldman The Coachman 4'
Kharito Chrysanthemums 3'
Trad. Nese Galyu vodu; Ti zh menia pidmanula 6'
Gloucester Cathedral Chapter House
Bortniansky Cherubic Hymn No 7 4'
Bortniansky Let My Prayer Arise 7'
Lyatoshinsky from 3 Songs on Tajik Themes, Op. 25 6'
Smetana From My Homeland 6'
Trad. The Songbird; The Mayday Tree 5'
Paweł Łukaszewski Two Lenten Motets 8'
Bortkiewicz Prelude in F sharp, Op. 33 No 7 4'
Kosenko Nocturne-Fantasia in C sharp minor, Op. 4 8'
Dvořák Songs My Mother Taught Me 5'
Feldman The Coachman 4'
Kharito Chrysanthemums 3'
Trad. Nese Galyu vodu; Ti zh menia pidmanula 6'
We join forces with violin, voice/ guitar and piano trio Muzika Lyra to celebrate the richness and beauty of Eastern Europe’s sacred and secular music. The programme draws together some lesser-known Slavic composers whose music shares the sumptuous harmonic language and glorious sonorities of more familiar names such as Rachmaninov, Pärt and Tchaikovsky. This beautiful concert concludes with the two groups coming together to perform arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs.
Tickets £22 (under 25s free) from Three Choirs Festival website
Westminster Abbey Evensong- Tuesday 1st August 5.00pm
Westminster Abbey
FREE no ticket required
FREE no ticket required