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Elgar Festival - Thursday 1 June 7.30pm

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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’

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.
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Tickets £20 from Elgar Festival website
or call 
Worcester Theatres – 01905 611 427


Three Choirs Festival Evensong- Saturday 22 July 5.30pm

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

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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'

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

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Westminster Abbey
FREE no ticket required

At last divine Cecilia came.  
Inventress of the vocal frame;  
The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store  
Enlarged the former narrow bounds,
And added length to solemn sounds,  
With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.  

From 'Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music' - John Dryden
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