PRESIDENT: SIR ANDREW DAVIS CBE
Vaughan Williams Concerts in 2022
RVW150: Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
This page is intended to keep members informed of concerts featuring the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and will be updated at regular intervals. Please note: The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society relies on its information from outside sources and is not responsible for for any changes in schedules or errors in information.
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JANUARY
SATURDAY JANUARY 22
Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts
Langley Park School for Boys, South Eden Park Road – Beckenham
Wasps Overture
The Lark Ascending
Also:
Peter Longworth In the golden sky, the swallows turn
Bax Symphony No 6
Emily Davis soloist
website
JANUARY 27
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London
Orchestral Masterworks
Symphony No 8 in D minor
Ruth Gipps: Symphony no 4
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Alvin Arumugam, Daniel Hogan, John-Paul Jennings and Ondřej Soukup conductors
RCM Philharmonic
6:00pm
website
FEBRUARY
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3
Charterhouse School, Godalming
Llewellyn Room, Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL
Romance and Pastorale for Violin and Piano
Truth from Above
Romance for Viola and Piano
Welcome lecture and Concert, given by Head of Academic Music, Dr Russell Millard, and musicians of Charterhouse.
Musicians of Charterhouse
FREE but you must register to attend!
19:00
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5
COME AND SING’ A Last Night of the Proms celebration for Her Majesty the Queen’s 70th Jubilee
All Saints’ Church, Priory Terrace, Royal Leamington Spa CV31 1AA
Serenade to Music
arr. Britten God save the Queen
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 “Land of hope and glory”
Handel Zadok the Priest
Parry I was glad (with Vivats)
Parry Jerusalem
Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs
10:30am
Public performance at: 4:00pm
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5
Mote Hall, Maidstone Leisure Centre ME15 7RN
Symphony no. 5 in D major
Mozart Overture, The Magic Flute
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Maidstone Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Baker violin
Brian Wright conductor
7:30pm
MONDAY FEBRUARY 7
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, 5, Place de la Monnaie, Brussels, Brussels Capital, 1000, Belgium
Symphony no. 5 in D major
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings, Op.47
Britten Les Illuminations, for soprano or tenor and strings, Op.18
Gävle Symfoniorkester
Douglas Boyd Conductor
Mark Padmore Tenor
20:00
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8
Stratford Playhouse, 14 Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6LU
Overture, from The Wasps
Shaker Loops John Adams
Three Studies from Couperin Thomas Adès
Orchestra of the Swan
Peter Donohoe piano
Michael Collins conductor
19:30
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15
The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford HR4 9JR
Wasps’ Overture
Symphony no 5
Also Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Michael Collins, Conductor
Peter Donohoe, Piano
Orchestra of the Swan
7:30 pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK 6:45pm Performance starts 7:30pm
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 16
Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA
Wasps Overture
Also: Adams Shaker Loops
Adès Three Studies from Couperin
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Orchestra of the Swan
Conductor Michael Collins
Piano Peter Donohoe
PRE-CONCERT TALK 6:45pm Performance starts 7:30pm
website
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24
Charterhouse School, Godalming
Llewellyn Room, Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL
Violin Sonata in A minor
Musicians of Charterhouse
FREE but you must register to attend this event
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25
Usher Hall Edinburgh
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7)
Jasper Dommett Dreams of Isolation
Elgar Enigma Variations
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26
Royal Concert Hall Glasgow
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7)
Jasper Dommett Dreams of Isolation
Elgar Enigma Variations
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic are joining forces to offer a unique Mancunian tribute.
Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3)
On Wenlock Edge
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Mark Wigglesworth conductor
Alessandro Fisher tenor
BBC Philharmonic
19.30
website
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27
Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Steel Dickson Avenue, Portaferry, County Down
Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Rhosymedre
Frank Bridge Allegretto grazioso (from Six Pieces)
Edward Elgar Sonata in G major Op. 28
Healey Willan Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue
Daniel Cook organ
MARCH
THURSDAY MARCH 10
Cadogan Hall, London
Benedicite
English Folk Song Suite
5 Mystical Songs
Also: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte à dulcinée Maurice Ravel
Hilary Davan Wetton conductor
Llyr Williams piano
City of London Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
19.30
website
FRIDAY MARCH 11
Barbican Hall, London
Scott of the Antarctic
Film with live accompaniment
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Elizabeth Watts soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
19.30
website
THURSDAY March 17
Warwick Hall, Warwick School, Myton Road, Warwick, CV34 6PP
The Lark Ascending
Also: Elgar Serenade
Thomas Adès Albion
Bartók Romanian Dances
Beethoven Symphony no.6 (Pastoral)
Orchestra of the Swan
Director/soloist Thomas Gould
7:30
website
SATURDAY MARCH 19
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic are joining forces to offer a unique Mancunian tribute.
Toward the Unknown Region
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Job: A Masque for Dancing
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
Hallé Choir tenor
BBC Philharmonic
19.30
website
SATURDAY MARCH 19
Charterhouse School. Memorial Chapel, Godalming
Investec Music Festival in the Surrey Hill
The Old Hundredth
An Oxford Elegy
Romance & Pastorale
(world premiere arr David Matthews)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Also: Holst St. Paul’s Suite
Britten Sinfonia
directed by Thomas Gould
Alexander Sitkovetsky violin
Lachlan Mackinnon narrator (Oxford Elegy)
Charterhouse Chapel Choir & Strings directed by Mark Shepherd
7.30pm
SATURDAY MARCH 19
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Dona Nobis Pacem
Also: Sibelius Symphony No.2
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Alison Rose soprano
Tristan Humbleton bass-baritone
Harry Sever conductor
Tickets £12
Students/ Concessions £10
7.30pm
SATURDAY MARCH 19
New Auditorium, The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, G2 3NY
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Also: Gustav Holst A Fugal Overture
GeorgeButterworth On the Banks of Green Willow
Cecil Coles Four Verlaine Songs
Glasgow Orchestral Society
Soprano Shuna Scott Sendall
Conductor Chris Swaffer
7:30
website
SATURDAY MARCH 19
Memorial Chapel, Charterhouse School
The Old 100th
An Oxford Elegy
narrator: poet & Old Carthusian Lachlan Mackinnon*
Romance & Pastorale
(World Premiere VW /D Matthews)
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Also: Holst: St Paul Suite
With pre-concert reception including an exhibition of RVW’s artefacts from the school’s archive and a talk by Head of Academic Music Dr Russell Millard.
Britten Sinfonia, Alexander Sitkovetsky & pupils/choristors of Charterhouse,
Conducted by Charterhouse Director of Music Mark Shepherd
SATURDAY MARCH 26
Our Lady’s Church, Hitchin, Herts.
Benedicite
Orpheus Choir of North Hertfordshire
Anne-Marie Hetherington, conductor
APRIL
SATURDAY APRIL 2
St Mary’s Church Hadleigh
Hadleigh Choral Society
Five Mystical Songs
7.30 pm
SATURDAY APRIL 2
St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden
The programme, which will be a mixture of music and dramatic readings about RVW in Saffron Walden and the London Field Ambulance.
Mass in G minor (1922)
Lark Ascending
(violin & piano version, 1914)
Three Shakespeare Songs
Four of the Five English Folk Songs (1913)
Rhosymedre
(from Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes [1920])
Also: ‘O Western Wind’ – An Anniversary (2021) by Sarah Cattley – Stainer & Bell new commission.
Granta Chorale
7.30 pm
Price: £15, with under 25s £5.
website
FRIDAY APRIL 1
Barbican, London
Édith Canat de Chizy: Omen (UK premiere)
Concerto for Two Pianos
Also: Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Noriko Ogawa piano
Kathryn Stott piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jordan De Souza conductor
19.30
website
FRIDAY APRIL 8
Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey
Leith Hill Musical Festival
Let all the world in every corner sing
Beethoven Mass in C
Jonathan Willcocks The Song of Mary
http://www.lhmf.org.uk/events-and-tickets/buy-tickets/
FRIDAY APRIL 8
St Gabriel’s Pimlico, London
‘Valiant-for-Truth: Vaughan Williams at 150’ celebrates the a cappella music of Vaughan Williams, his teachers, his students and his friends
Valiant for Truth
Three Shakespeare Songs
Silence and Music
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
O vos omnes
Rest
The Turtle Dove
Also: Hubert Parry My soul, there Is a country
Gustav Holst: Nunc dimittis
Maurice Ravel: Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
Ina Boyle: The Light’ner of the Stars
Imogen Holst: A Hymne to Christ
Elizabeth Maconchy: Nocturnal
Charles Stanford: The Blue Bird
Gerald Finzi: White-flowering Days
Kenneth Leighton: London Town
Londinium chamber choir
Andrew Griffiths conductor
7.30pm
website
SATURDAY APRIL 9
Dorking Halls
Leith Hill Musical Festival
The old 100th
Bob Chilcott A Little Jazz Mass
Gershwin (arr. Warnick) Porgy and Bess Suit
John Rutter Feel the spirit
http://www.lhmf.org.uk/events-and-tickets/buy-tickets/
SATURDAY APRIL 9
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic are joining forces to offer a unique Mancunian tribute.
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7)
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
John Wilson conductor
Sarah Fox soprano
Ladies of the Manchester Choir
BBC Philharmonic
7.30pm
website
SATURDAY APRIL 9
St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow
Ludlow English Song Weekend
O Vos Omnes
Mass in G Minor
Imogen Holst A Hymne to Christ
Elizabeth Maconchy A Hymn to God the Father
Jane Joseph A Hymn for Whitsuntide
Ina Boyle Caedmon’s Hymn (World premiere)
The Carice Singers
2.30.pm
http://ludlowenglishsongweekend.com/whats-on-2022/
SATURDAY APRIL 9
Leominster Priory Church Church St Leominster Herefordshire HR6 8DA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bob Chilcott – St John Passion
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
George Walker – Lyric for Strings
Jon Weller Narrator
English Symphony Orchestra
7.30pm
https://eso.co.uk/09apr22-leominster
SUNDAY APRIL 10
Caird Hall, Dundee
A Sea Symphony
Also: Walt Whitman Overture Gustav Holst
Dundee Choral Union
St. Andrews Chorus
Conductor Michael Downes
Heisenberg Ensemble
7.30pm
THURSDAY APRIL 14
Markelius Hall, Helsingborg, Sweden
Serenade to Music
(orchestral version)
Toward the Unknown Region
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 2, Lobgesang
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Andrew Manze conductor
7.pm
https://helsingborgskonserthus.se/event/hso-lovsang-till-manskligheten/
THURSDAY APRIL 21
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic are joining forces to offer a unique Mancunian tribute.
Symphony No. 9
Also: Holst The Planets
John Wilson conductor
Sopranos and altos of the Hallé Choir
The Hallé
19.30
website
SATURDAY APRIL 23
St Michael and All Angels, Herefordshire, HR8 1DL
The Voice and The Violin
The Lark Ascending
Along the Field
Also:
R. Clarke Songs with Violin
Schumann Album fur Die Jugend
Britten A Charm of Lullabies
Rimsky-Korsakov/Kreisler/Roper “Scheherezade Theme“
Ravel Tzigane
Dvorak Zigeunermelodien
Rachel Roper soprano
Hannah Roper violin
Martin Jacoby piano
All proceeds to St Michael’s Hospice in memory of William Christopher King
7:00PM
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/herefordshire/st-michael-and-all-an
gels/the-voice-and-the-violin/2022-04-23/19:00/t-reydme
SATURDAY APRIL 23
Aylesbury Methodist Church
“Hands Across the Atlantic”, Programme: British Folk Songs
Five Mystical Songs
Conductor Nick Austin
Lydia Shariff Mezzo-Soprano
Greg Hallam Baritone
Rowena Gibbons Piano
Robin Johnson – Drums
7.30pm
Aylesbury Festival Choir
www.aylesburyfestivalchoir.weebly.com
SUNDAY APRIL 24
Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Coleridge-Taylor Ballade
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tom Gauterin conductor
Daniel Pioro violin
SUNDAY APRIL 24
Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
Spirit of the City
Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony)
Also: Bruch: Violin Concerto
Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tom Gauterin conductor
Daniel Pioro violin
3.pm
https://tickets.lpo.org.uk/events/1626886937
TUESDAY APRIL 26
Royal Festival Hall, London
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Also: Holst The Planets
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Boris Giltburg piano
Vasily Petrenko conductor
19.30
website
WEDNESDAY APRIL 27
Royal Festival Hall, London
Symphony No. 5
Also: Sinfonia da Requiem Op 20 – Benjamin Britten
Concerto for cello and orchestra – Brett Dean
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Alban Gerhardt cello
Edward Gardner conductor
19.30
website
WEDNESDAY APRIL 27
Warwick Arts Centre: Butterworth Hall, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV4 7AL
Symphony no. 6 in E minor
Also: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K488
Sibelius Symphony no. 3 in C major, Op.52
The Hallé
Sir Mark Elder Conductor
Elisabeth Brauß Piano
7.30pm
APRIL 28
Leamington Music Festival
String Quartet No 1 in G minor
Ravel String Quartet in F
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84
Sacconi Quartet
Ben Hancox and Hannah Dawson violins
Robin Ashwell viola, Cara Berridge cello
Emma Abbate piano
7:30pm
https://www.leamingtonmusic.org/event/sacconi-quartet-with-emma-abbate-piano/
FRIDAY APRIL 29
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Symphony No 2, ‘A London Symphony’
also: Johannesburg Festival Overture Sir William Walton
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 5 in E flat, ‘Emperor’ Op 73 Ludwig van Beethoven
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Boris Giltburg piano
Vasily Petrenko conductor
19:30
website
APRIL 29
Leamington Music Festival
On Wenlock Edge
Howard Skempton The Moon is Flashing
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op 98
Howard Skempton Piano Concerto
Ensemble 360
Robert Plane clarinet
Benjamin Nabarro and Claudia Ajmone-Marsan violins
Rachel Roberts viola, Gemma Rosefield cello
with James Gilchrist tenor
Tim Horton piano
7:30pm
SATURDAY APRIL 30
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic are joining forces to offer a unique Mancunian tribute.
Symphony No.6
A Sea Symphony (Symphony No.1)
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
Hallé Choir
Hallé Youth Choir
19.30
website
MAY
SUNDAY MAY 1 Leamington
Leamington Music Festival
Prelude & Fugue in C minor
Also: Howells Psalm Prelude Op 32 No 1
Howells Sonata for Organ (1st mvt): Vivo, energico ed agitato
Simpson Eppur si muove
Christopher Cromar organ
4.00pm
https://www.leamingtonmusic.org/event/sacconi-quartet-with-emma-abbate-piano/
SUNDAY MAY 1 Leamington
Leamington Music Festival
Six Studies in English Folksong for Clarinet
Also:
Beethoven Trio in B flat Op 11 ‘Gassenhauer’
Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op 102 No 1
Simpson Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Emma Johnson clarinet
Raphael Wallfisch cello
John Lenehan piano
https://www.leamingtonmusic.org/event/sacconi-quartet-with-emma-abbate-piano/
SUNDAY MAY 1
Hall One, Kings Place, London N1 9AG
Concerto grosso for strings
Finzi: Eclogue for piano and strings, Op. 10
Britten: Simple Symphony for string orchestra, Op. 4
Chamber Ensemble of London
dir. Peter Fisher (violin)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
6.30pm
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/chamber-ensemble-of-london/
SUNDAY MAY 1
Sage One, Gateshead
Symphony No 1 – A Sea Symphony
Also: James McCarthy Codebreaker
Hertfordshire Chorus
Newcastle Choral Society (NCS)
Orchestra North East
David Temple conductor
Mark Anyan conductor
Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson soprano
Ashley Riches baritone
3:00pm
SUNDAY MAY 1
Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA
The European Brass Band Championships: Challenge Section and Championship Section Own-Choice
Programme to include:
Variations for Brass Band
9.00am
TUESDAY MAY 3
Barbican Hall, London
Vaughan Williams Gala Concert
Fantasia on the ‘Old 104th’ psalm tune
(for piano, chorus and orchestra)
Piano Concerto
A Sea Symphony
Sophie Bevan soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
Mark Bebbington piano
City of London Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hilary Davan Wetton conductor
THURSDAY MAY 5
Kings Place: Hall One 90 York Way, London, Greater London, N1 9AG
Voices Unwrapped: Roderick Williams & Paul Cibis: When I was one-and-twenty
Songs of Travel
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin (selections)
Schumann Liederkreis, Op. 24 (selections)
Butterworth and Orr Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’
Rebecca Clarke Three Songs
Chopin Preludes Nos 10 & 23
Roderick Williams Baritone
Paul Cibis Piano
7.30pm
THURSDAY MAY 5
Charterhouse School
String Quartet in C minor (1898)
Also: Natalie Klouda Piano Trio No.2 (World Premiere)
Surrey Hills Young Composer Competition winning work (World Premiere)
Beethoven: Piano Trio Op.70 No.1 ‘Ghost’
Sitkovetsky Trio & Friends
THURSDAY– FRIDAY MAY 5,6
May 5 Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, May 6, City Halls, Glasgow
Flos Campi
Also: Grace Williams Sea Sketches
John Dowland (arr. Manze) If my complaints could passions move
Benjamin Britten Lachrymae
Anna Clyne The Years (world premiere)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir
Timothy Ridout viola
Andrew Manze Conductor
19:30
FRIDAY MAY 6
Polaris Centre for the Performing Arts,
#8, 261051 Wagon Wheel View, Rocky View County, Canada T4A 0E2
Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary
Symphony No. 5
Mozart Overture to Die Zauberflöte
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Carlos Foggin Conductor
Eva Toncheva Violin
7:30pm
https://www.polariscentre.ca/listings/vaughan-williams-5
SATURDAY MAY 7
Strathmore, Canada
Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary
Symphony No. 5
Mozart Overture to Die Zauberflöte
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Carlos Foggin Conductor
Eva Toncheva Violin
7:30pm
https://www.polariscentre.ca/listings/vaughan-williams-5
SATURDAY MAY 7
The Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, Stoke D’Abernon KT11 3QQ
Investec Music Festival in the Surrey Hill
Household Music:
3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
Also: Schubert String Quartet No.7 D.94
Ravel String Quartet in F major Op.35
Modigliani Quartet
SATURDAY MAY 7
Temple Church, London
Five Mystical Songs
Serenade to Music
Mass in G Minor
The Lark Ascending
Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir
Greg Morris Conductor
Augusta Hebbert Soprano
Jessica Gillingwater Contralto
Gareth Treseder Tenor
Thomas Guthrie Baritone
Ian Belton Violin
Richard Pearce Organ
7.30pm
SUNDAY MAY 8
Charterhouse School, Godalming
Llewellyn Room, Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL
Charterhouse Suite for Piano
3 Elizabethan Part Songs
String Quartet
Musicians of Charterhouse
7.00pm
FREE but you must register to attend this event
SUNDAY MAY 8
St. John’s Church, St John’s Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 7PY
Newbury Spring Festival
Mass in G minor
Introit: Tallis “O Lord, Give Thy Holy Spirit”
Anthem: Imogen Holst “A Hymne to Christ”
The Carice Singers
George Parris director
6.00pm
https://www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk/
SUNDAY MAY 8
St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield, Sussex TN20 6AB
Mayfield Festival
‘The Wasps’ Overture
The Lark Ascending
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Symphony No.5
7:30pm
https://www.southbanksinfonia.co.uk/events-item/12119/mayfield-festival/
THURSDAY MAY 12
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic are joining forces to offer a unique Mancunian tribute.
Symphony No. 8
Also:
Stravinsky Concerto for piano and wind instruments
R. Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Elena Langer Figaro gets a Divorce
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Steven Osborne piano
Hallé
19.30
website
THURSDAY MAY 12
The Menuhin Hall, Cobham
Six Studies in English Folk Song
Dark Pastoral
(Vaughan Williams/D Matthews)
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No.2 in D major
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor Op.65
Gary Hoffman cello and Wu Qian piano
FRIDAY MAY 13
Barbican, London
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Plus works by Maurice Ravel, Tristan Murail and César Franck
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth
FRIDAY MAY 13 (18:45) SATURDAY MAY 14 (16:00)
Aichi Prefectural Arts Theatre Concert Hall
1 Chome-13-2 Higashisakura, Higashi Ward, Aichi 461-8525, Japan
Symphony No.5 in D Major
Elgar Introduction and Allegro Op.47
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C major K.314
Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra
Angus Webster conductor
Mizuho Yoshie oboe
https://www.nagoya-phil.or.jp/en/2022/0217115323.html
SATURDAY MAY 14
St Nicolas Church, West Mills Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5HG
Newbury Spring Festival
Symphony No. 4
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 Emperor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Vadym Kholodenko piano
The concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3
https://www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk/
SATURDAY MAY 14
St Mary’s Church, Princes Risborough, Oxon
Chiltern Arts Choral Discovery Day & Concert
O Vos Omnes
Mass in G Minor
https://www.stmarysrisborough.org.uk/2021/04/chiltern-arts-festival-2021/
SATURDAY MAY 14
Garden Room, RHS Hilltop, RHS Garden Wisley
Charterhouse Suite
(arr Roper)
Beethoven Septet for winds and strings Op.20
Michael Collins and Friends
SUNDAY MAY 15
Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester
Phantasy Quintet
Also: Tiberiu Buta New Work (world premiere)
Mozart String Quintet in C, K515
Sarah Ewins violin
Tiberiu Buta violin
Julian Mottram viola
Piero Gasparini viola
Dale Culliford cello
1:00pm
SUNDAY MAY 15
St John Baptist de la Salle, Shillington
A Celebration of Vaughan Williams
The Garden of Proserpine
American premiere
Opus One
Berks Chamber Choir
Available online from Sun, May 22 – Sun, June 12
9:00pm
WEDNESDAY MAY 17
Philharmonie, Berlin
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Also:
Tippett Little Music
Elgar Cello concerto
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
WEDNESDAY MAY 18
Philharmonie, Berlin
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Also:
Tippett Little Music
Elgar Cello concerto
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
THURSDAY MAY 19
Fukuoka Sunpalace Hotel & Hall
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3)
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major
Kyushu Symphony Orchestra
Sachio Fujioka Conductor
Choi Hyounglok Piano
Miwako Handa Soprano
7:00pm
http://www.kyukyo.or.jp/eng/ticket/detail.php?id=13741
THURSDAY MAY 19
Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London
Serenade to Music
The Bach Choir
Philip Scriven organ
David Hill conductor
SATURDAY MAY 21
Cadogan Hall, London
A Sea Symphony
Cecilia McDowall Shipping Forecast
Grace Williams Sea Sketches
London Mozart Players
Joanna Tomlinson conductor
Constanza Chorus
Eleanor Dennis soprano
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
7:30pm
https://www.londonmozartplayers.com/
www.cadoganhall.com/whats-on/constanza-chorus-2022
SATURDAY MAY 21
Heritage Centre Roe Street Macclesfield SK11 6UT
Macclesfield Concert Season
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Percy Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry
Malcolm Arnold Guitar Concerto, Op.67
Peter Sculthorpe Nourlangie
Edward Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op.47
Craig Ogden acoustic guitar
Nicholas Ward violin / artistic director
Northern Chamber Orchestra
7:30 PM
SUNDAY MAY 22
Stoller Hall Hunts Bank Manchester M3 1DA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Percy Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry
Malcolm Arnold Guitar Concerto, Op.67
Peter Sculthorpe Nourlangie
Edward Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op.47
Craig Ogden acoustic guitar
Nicholas Ward violin / artistic director
Northern Chamber Orchestra
3:00 PM
SUNDAY MAY 22
All Saints’ Church, Down Ampney
Choral Evensong with RVW’s hymns, motet and music by RVW
The Right Reverend Dr Andrew Rumsey, Bishop of Ramsbury
The Octavo Singers
3pm
SUNDAY MAY 22
Concert – featuring the music of RVW and others by The Octavo Singers
6pm
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/All-Saints-Church-Down-Ampney/t-gnomqm
SUNDAY MAY 22
Hill Barn, Lower Swell, nr Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 5.00pm
Silence and Music
Mass in G Minor
Ina Boyle Caedmon’s Hymn
Hugo Alfvén Aftonen (The evening)
Jean Sibelius Män från slätten och havet (Men from plain and sea)
Gustav Holst This have I done for my true love
The Carice Singers
5pm
https://www.thecaricesingers.co.uk/concerts
SUNDAY MAY 22
Whittington Music Festival
On Wenlock Edge
Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
Ravel Tzigane for violin and piano
Ravel Introduction and Allegro for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet
Mark Padmore
3:30 p.m.
https://www.whittingtonmusicfestival.org.uk/festival-programme-2022/
TUESDAY MAY 24
St George’s Church
Kensington and Chelsea Music Society – RVW 150th Concert
Songs of Travel
Richard Rodney Bennett Songs before Sleep
Also: Songs and solo piano music by Barber, Britten, Howells, Ives & Lehmann
Gareth John baritone
William Vann piano
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/532940
http://kcmusic.org.uk/concerts/24th-may/
FRIDAY MAY 27
Dorchester Abbey, High St, Dorchester, Oxon. OX10 7HH
Old King Cole
Elgar The Spanish Lady Comedy Overture (World Premiere)
Delius Petite Suite pour Orchestre (First professional performance)
Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor (First performance of new edition)
Alwyn Concerto Grosso no.1 in B-flat
Hely-Hutchinson Variations, Intermezzo, Scherzo and Finale
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates Conductor
Rupert Marshall-Luck Violin
Pre-concert talk: 5.15pm
Dorchester Village Hall, Dorchester, Oxon. OX10 7HR
Stephen Johnson: Vaughan Williams — The Shadow and the Light
7.30pm
https://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/
SATURDAY MAY 28
Dorchester Abbey, High Street, Dorchester OX10 7HH
English Music Festival
Willow Wood
Finzi extracts from Love’s Labour’s Lost
Ireland Te Deum and Jubilate in F
Bainton Christ in the Wilderness
Howells A Hymn for Saint Cecilia
Howells Music for a Prince
Holst This have I done for my true love
Delius Irmelin Prelude
Howells King David
Dyson In honour of the City
The Holst Orchestra
Godwine Choir
Hilary Davan Wetton conductor
Roderick Williams baritone
SUNDAY MAY 29
Silk Hall, Radley College, Kennington Road, Abingdon OX14 2HR
English Music Festival
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Mass in G minor
Bliss Put thou thy trust in the Lord
Delius Three Preludes for Piano
Charles Wood Full fathom five
Macfarren Orpheus, with his lute
Ireland The Hills
Dyson: Evening; Nocturne The Moon
John Gardner Fear no more
Charles Wood Hail, Gladdening Light
Stanford Three Motets
The Addison Singers
David Wordsworth Conductor
SUNDAY MAY 29
Dorchester Abbey, High Street, Dorchester OX10 7HH
English Music Festival
Five Mystical Songs
Parry Blest Pair of Sirens
Holst Five Partsongs
The Cloud Messenger
English Chamber Orchestra
Choir of King’s College, London
Joseph Fort Conductor
SUNDAY MAY 29
St Andrew’s Hall
Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Five Tudor Portraits (Commissioned for the Festival in 1936)
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
Also: Mozart Divertimento in D major, K. 136
Britten Sinfonia
Norwich Philharmonic Chorus
William Vann conductor
Tickets £7.50 – £40.00
https://nnfestival.org.uk
TUESDAY MAY 31
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Job, a Masque for Dancing
Also:
Frank Bridge Dance Rhapsody
Elgar Cello Concerto
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conductor
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
JUNE
SATURDAY JUNE 4
Worcester Cathedral, 8 College Yard, Worcester WR1 2LA
Elgar Festival – The Royal Platinum Jubilee Gala Concert
Festival Te Deum
Elgar – Spirit of England
Elgar – In the South
English Symphony Orchestra
Elgar Festival Chorus
Kenneth Woods conductor
April Fredrick soprano
Marcus Farnsworth Baritone
SATURDAY JUNE 11
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, IP17 1SP
Aldeburgh Festival 2022
Serenade to Music
Part of Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at 50
An event bringing together generations of Britten Pears Young Artists to share the concert hall stage.
Current Britten Pears Young Artists and illustrious previous participants come together to perform a programme of vocal and chamber music, including Vaughan Williams’s Serenade and Schubert’s Quartettsatz.
SATURDAY JUNE 25
Ipswich Corn Exchange
Symphony No 2: A London Symphony
Also: Britten Dances from the opera ‘Gloriana’
Elgar Cello Concerto
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra
Max Calver cello
Adam Gatehouse conductor
Tickets from Regent Theatre Ipswich
7.30pm
Tickets: £15 and £14 concessions
website
SUNDAY JUNE 26
St Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London EC4A 3AF
Symphony No.5
Finzi Cello Concerto*
Finzi – Soloist: Indira Grier
Elgar Sinfonia
Conductor Adrian Brown
4.30pm
*Supported by the Finzi Trust
Tickets from: elgarsinfonia@yahoo.com
WEDNESDAY JUNE 29
St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
Sweet Harmony
Dona Nobis Pacem
Serenade to Music
Valiant-for-Truth
Five Mystical Songs
The Bar Choral Society
The Parliament Choir
Southbank Sinfonia
Elizabeth Weisberg soprano
Emma Lewis mezzo-soprano
Christopher Fitzgerald-Lombard tenor
Gareth Brynmor John baritone
Greg Morris, Simon Over conductors
7.30pm
website
JULY
FRIDAY JULY 1
Thaxted Parish Church.
Thaxted Festival, Essex. Thaxted Festival 2022 With its origins in Gustav Holst’s 1916 Whitsun Festival.
Mass in G Minor.
also: Holst Cloud Messenger
Kings College London Choir and the English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Joseph Fort
FRIDAY JULY 1
Carwithen Music Festival
St Mary’s Church, Haddenham
49th Parallel
Masquerade String Quartet
19:30
Website
SATURDAY JULY 2
Carwithen Music Festival
St Mary’s Church, Haddenham
The Lake in The Mountains
Cello Sonatina Doreen Carwithen
Romance for cello and piano Barbara Carwithen (World Premiere)
4 Preludes for Piano Doreen Carwithen
Ballade for cello and piano Minna Keal
Nick Stringfellow and Eleanor Hodgkinson
10.30am
SATURDAY JULY 2
St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
An English Serenade
Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’
Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor, Opus 20
Finzi Romance Opus 11
Robert Matthew-Walker Fantasia Della Sinfonia
Rimma Suchanskaya Conductor
National Symphony Orchestra
7.30pm
SATURDAY JULY 2
Carwithen Music Festival
St Mary’s Church, Haddenham
The Lark Ascending
Violin Sonata Doreen Carwithen
Legende Frederick Delius
New Commission by Christopher Gunning
Fantasie in C Minor Minna Keal
Lorelei by Susan Spain Dunk
Fenella Humphreys Violin
Nathan Williamson Piano
SATURDAY JULY 2
St Mary’s Church, Thaxted
Songs of Travel
Also: Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Songs by Ireland, Warlock, Britten and others.
New Commission by Sarah Cattley,
Roderick Williams Baritone
Susie Allan piano
SATURDAY JULY 9
St Mary’s Parish Church, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex
Five Mystical Songs
Handel Four Coronation Anthems
Parry I Was Glad
West Sussex Philharmonic Choir
Sean Bui Conductor
David Moore Accompanist
Ian Gardner Baritone
SATURDAY JULY 9
St Martin’s Church, Dorking, RH4 1DW
Vaughan Williams: A Choral Celebration!
A vision of Aeroplanes
O Taste and See
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge
Folk Song Arrangements
Bushes and Briars
Silence and Music
Three Shakespeare Songs
plus works by Finzi, Holst, Havergal Brian, Sarah Cattley and Zoe Dixon (world premiere).
The Joyful Company of Singers
Peter Broadbent and Olivia Tait Conductors
Jeremiah Stephenson Organist
7pm with pre-concert talk at 6.30pm
Tickets £15 – £10 for under-30s and the unwaged – on the door and from website.
SATURDAY JULY 9
St Faith’s Church Lee on Solent
By kind invitation of Lee Choral Society
English Folk Song Suite
Also: Steve Marshall Out of the Wood Thoughts Narrator Gerry Hayles
Alyson Lewin Midsummer Morris
Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia and Christopher Burgess
7.30pm
Tickets 07766 912219
SATURDAY JULY 9
Chester Cathedral, Chester
Silence and Music
also: motets by Herbert Howells and Cecilia McDowell
Chester Cathedral Nave Choir
Conductor Alexander Palotai
Organist Graham Eccles
7.30pm
[Tickets £6-£15]
SUNDAY JULY 10
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Celebration Concert
St John’s Church, Macaulay Road, Broadstone
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Handel Zadok the Priest, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba & excerpts from Water Music suites
Vivaldi Gloria
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
Performed by our Royal College of Music and Merton College Oxford undergraduate musicians
Lewis Lee violin, Joseph Berry viola
St Peter’s Church Choir
Director Richard McLeste
7.00 pm
Limited tickets on the door but booking online recommended
website
SATURDAY JULY 9
St James the Great Church, East Malling
50th Anniversary Gala Concert
Hymn of Freedom
O Clap Your Hands
including: Rutter Gloria Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Parry Jerusalem
East Malling Singers
Tickets £12/schoolchildren free 01622 750 943 or
Email: boxoffice@eastmallingsingers.co.uk
SATURDAY JULY 16
Lichfield Cathedral
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Britten Four Sea Interludes
Schumann Symphony No 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Ryan Bancroft
17:00pm
SATURDAY JULY 16
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Symphony No.4 in F Minor
Symphony No.5 in D Major
Mercury Orchestra
Channing Yu conductor
20:00
MONDAY JULY 18
The Minster Church of St Cuthburga, High St, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne BH21 1EB
Lunchtime concert
Rhosymedre
Brewer Marche Héroïque
Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542)
Duruflé Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain (op. 7)
Sam Hanson organ
12:30 pm
MONDAY JULY 25
King’s Lynn Festival, King’s Lynn Minster
Town Hall, Coffee Concert
On Wenlock Edge
The Hill Quartet
Ben Mead piano
Rory Calver Tenor
11am
SATURDAY, JULY 30
Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn Festival
The Lark Ascending
Also: Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A Major
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthew Coorey conductor
Duncan Riddell violin
7.30 pm
website
AUGUST
FRIDAY AUGUST 19
Great Hall, Dartington Trust, South Devon
Five Mystical Songs
The New Commonwealth
Songs of Travel
also:
Greensleeves: Trad. English folk song, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Cobbler: Trad. Hampshire folk song, arr. Imogen Holst
A Lover’s Dirge: Rebecca Clarke
The Turtle Dove: Trad. English folk song, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Swansea Town: Trad. Hampshire folk song, arr. Gustav Holst
Songs of Travel (selection): Ralph Vaughan Williams
Silent Noon: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Two Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda: Gustav Holst
The New Commonwealth: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dartington Festival Chorus
Johnny Herford baritone
William Vann conductor
AUGUST 24 , 25, 26, 27 (Wed–Sat)
Holland Park
Sir John in Love
British Youth Opera
Marit Strindlund conductor
Harry Fehr director
Nate Gibson designer
Chuma Emembolu lighting designer
With Southbank Sinfonia.
https://operahollandpark.com/productions/british-youth-opera-sir-john-in-love/
SEPTEMBER
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17
Bollington Arts Centre, Wellington Road SK10 5JR,
Bollington Chamber Concerts
Quartet no 2
Also: Jessie Montgomery Strum
Schubert Quartettsatz & Andante C minor D703
Beethoven Quartet in C sharp Op. 131
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
www.bollington-chamber-concerts.org/fitzwilliam
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18
All Saints Church, Down Ampney
String Quartet in G minor
Phantasy Quintet
Also: John Ireland String Quartet in D minor
Maggini String Quartet
3:00pm
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18
St George’s Church, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SA
Silence and Music
Parry Songs of Farewell
Stanford, Judith Bingham and more
16:30
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18
Kendal Leisure Centre Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary
Benedicite
The Lark Ascending
A Sea Symphony
Sarah Fox soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
Roland Fudge violin
Cumbria Festival Chorus
CFC Orchestra – leader: Roland Fudge
Conductor Ian Jones
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 21
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: New Auditorium, RSNO Centre, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
The Death of Tintagiles
Bach Fantasia (Prelude) and Fugue in C Minor, BWV537
Schmidt Symphony no. 4 in C major
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Jonathan Berman conductor
14:00
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22
Charterhouse School, Godalming HALL, Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL
Four Last Songs
Phantasy Viola Quintet
Darest thou now, O soul
Evening Recital of music for voice and strings, given by Claire Sutton-Williams and Mark Begbie, directed by Head of Strings, Mr Rafael Bolivar. The venue for this recital is Hall.
19:00
FREE but you must register to attend this event
SEPTEMBER 22 ZUŠ, Levoča
On Wenlock Edge
(Slovak premiere)
Also: Antonin Dvorak – String Quartet op. 51 (Slavic)
Songs by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter and Peter Warlock
Czech Philharmonic Quartet
Philip Sheffield tenor
Jonathan Powell piano
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24
South Main Baptist Church, Houston, TX USA
‘Let All the World in Every Corner Sing’ Ralph Vaughan Williams @ 150
Mass in G Minor
PLUS
O clap your hands
O taste and see
Come Down, O love divine
Three Shakespeare Songs
Rhosymedre
The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune
The Call
The Houston Chamber Choir
Robert Simpson conductor
Paragon Brass Ensemble
Guest Yuri McCoy Organ
7:30pm
https://www.houstonchamberchoir.org/let-all-the-world-in-every-corner-sing-1
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25
Famington Farm, Barcheston, Shipston-on-Stour
Songs of Travel
On Wenlock Edge
Greeting Rebecca Clarke
June twilight Rebecca Clarke
Down by the Salley Gardens Rebecca Clarke
Eight o’clock Rebecca Clarke
God made a tree Rebecca Clarke
Piano trio in B minor Percy Hilder Miles
Ensemble Kopernikus (chamber ensemble)
James Gilchrist tenor
Daniel Barrett baritone
Ian Tindale piano
15:30
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25
Windsor Festival, St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Serenade to Music
Also’ John Rutter Mass of the Children
Natalia Lomeiko violin
John Rutter conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bach Choir
7:30 PM
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26
Britten Theatre
Continuing our celebrations for Vaughan Williams’ 150th anniversary, hear the composer’s song cycle for voice and oboe, Ten Blake Songs, alongside the works of his lifelong friend Gustav Holst and pupil Rebecca Clarke.
Ten Blake Songs
Clarke Three Old English Songs
Brahms Two Songs for voice, viola and piano op 91
Holst Four Songs for voice and violin op 35
Jack Marks New work (world premiere)
RCM vocalists explore duos and trios in this folk-inspired concert.
6:00pm
OCTOBER
SATURDAY OCTOBER 1
Amersham Concert Club
Amersham Free Church, Woodside Road, Amersham HP6 6AJ
Seeking Utopia
Words and music to mark the R. Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary, and in particular the friendship between RVW and Lionel Tetris.
Shiry Rashkovsky viola
Viv McLean piano
Jessica Duchen narrator
Including works by Holst, Vaughan Williams, R. Clarke, Delius, Bloch and Korngold
SUNDAY OCTOBER 2
Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1HQ
Salute the Brave
Symphony No 3 ‘Pastoral’
William Alwyn Symphony No. 5
Sir Edward Elgar Sea Pictures
Eric Coates Dambusters March
Sheldon Bair The Homefront
Eirlys Myfanwy Davies mezzo soprano
John Gibbons Conductor
2.45pm
SUNDAY OCTOBER 2
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
Symphony No. 5
Also: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4
Sir Stephen Hough piano
Bristol Classical Players
Tom Gauterin conductor
SUNDAY OCTOBER 2
Cornerstone Arts Centre, 25 Station Road, Didcot OX11 7NE
Tuba Concerto
Also:
Rossini William Tell – Overture
Dohnanyi Symphonic Minutes
Brahms Symphony No.3
Didcot Concert Orchestra
4pm
THURSDAY OCTOBER 6
Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Haydn Cello Concerto no. 1 in C major, Hob VIIb:1
Elgar Sospiri for string orchestra and harp, Op.70
Weinberg Flute Concerto no. 1, Op.75
Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Marie-Christine Zupancic flute
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
THURSDAY OCTOBER 6
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
The Running Set
Symphony no. 5 in D major
Also: Elgar Froissart Overture, Op.19
Szymanowski Violin Concerto no. 2, Op.61
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conductor
19:30
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8
Dorking Halls, Dorking. Reigate Road, Dorking, GB RH4 1SG
Symphony No 1 A Sea Symphony
Symphony No 2 A London Symphony
Leslie Olive Conductor
English Arts Orchestra
English Arts Chorale
Eye Bach Choir
7.30 pm
website
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8
Leith Hill Place, Surrey
Vaughan William’s 150th Birthday weekend, packed with music, talks and events including
Choral Workshop
Dr Amy Bebbington
join with others to sing RVW pieces.
(Booking essential to take part)
10:30am – 1:30pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8
De Montfort Hall, Leicester
A Sea Symphony
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Also: Imogen Holst What Man is He (world premiere)
Leicester Philharmonic Choir
Bardi Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Bullamore conductor
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9
Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool
Symphony no. 5 in D major
Also: Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel Symphonic variations on an African Air, Op.63
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conductor
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9
All Saints Church, Down Ampney, Gloucs
Mass in G Minor
(sung liturgically)
and the hymn tunes of Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Reverend Canon John Swanton Vicar of Down Ampney
Raymond Calcraft Conductor,
David Davies Buckfast Abbey
The Cantores Chamber Choir
3pm
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
St Margaret’s Church, Rottingdean
Children will parade through Rottingdean and Kipling Gardens from 6.30pm with skylark themed lanterns, arriving at St Margaret’s Church at 7pm.
The Lark Ascending
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Also: Gerald Finzi: Romance for Strings Gustav Holst: St Paul’s Suite
Ellie Blackshaw violin
Brighton & East Sussex Youth Orchestra’s String Ensemble
Doors will open at 7pm for the concert, and the concert will be at 7.30-9pm. Skylarks Parade and Concert (artpodbtn.com) https://artpodbtn.com/skylarks-parade-concert/
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
Leith Hill Place, Surrey
150th Birthday Concert
The Lark Ascending
Romance and Pastorale
Six Folk Songs
Violin Sonata
Talk by Andrew Green on The Lark Ascending
Midori Komachi violin
Simon Callaghan piano
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
Gloucester Cathedral
Choral Evensong
RVW & pupils
Adrian Partington
Cathedral Choir
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
Kings Place: Hall One 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
O vos omnes
A Garland for the Queen:
Silence and Music
Mass in G minor
Boyle Hymn
Alfvén Aftonen
Maconchy A Hymn to God the Father
Holst Imogen A Hymne to Christ
Holst This have I done for my true love Op.34 no.1
The Carice Singers
George Parris conductor
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE
Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Birthday Concert
Serenade to Music
Five Mystical Songs
On Wenlock Edge
Three Elizabethan Songs
Sun, Moon Stars and Man
Imogen Holst Hymne to Christ
Rebecca Clarke Poem
Carducci Quartet
James Gilchrist tenor
Quentin Hayes baritone
Philippa Harrison piano
Cheltenham Chamber Choir (a new consort of professional singers from around Gloucestershire)
Ben Sawyer conductor
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, NY, 10028 USA
NP Mander Organ Recital Series
Symphony No. 5
(trans. David Briggs)
David Briggs organ
LIVESTREAMED
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13
Gloucester Cathedral
Fantasias By Candlelight
Tallis Fantasia
Also: Purcell, Tippett
Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists
Clio Gould
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13
St John’s Smith Square, London
Symphony No.8 in D minor
Also: Myroslav Skoryk Melody
Roxanna Panufnik 20 World Premiere – A Southbank Sinfonia Commission
Daniel Kidane Be Still
Southbank Sinfonia
Simon Over conductor
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13
Wiener Concert-Verein, Musikverein: Brahms-Saal Musikvereinsplatz 1, Vienna, 1010, Austria
Five variants of Dives and Lazarus
Haydn Symphony no. 49 in F minor “La Passione”
Mozart Horn Concerto no. 2 in E flat major, K417
Mozart Horn Concerto no. 4 in E flat major, K495
Felix Klieser French horn
Wiener Concert-Verein
Tarmo Peltokoski conductor
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13
St Martin in the Fields, London
Vaughan Williams – Sun, Moon, Stars and Man
Serenade to Music
Frances-Hoad From the Beginning of the World
Gjeilo Song of the Universal
Shaw Its Motion Keeps
London Mozart Players
St Martin’s Voices
Andrew Earis Director
OCTOBER 13, 14, 15
Philharmonie: Großer Saal, 1 Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin, D10785, Germany
On Wenlock Edge
Chin Unsuk Rocaná (Room of light)
Strauss Richard (1864-1949) Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding conductor
Andrew Staples Tenor
OCTOBER 13, 14, 15
Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 USA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Simon An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Berg Seven Early Songs
Elgar In the South (Alassio), Concert Overture
Donald Runnicles
Minnesota Orchestra
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14
St Giles in the Fields Church, 60 St Giles High Street London WC2H 8LG
English Folk Song Suite
The ‘Charterhouse’ Suite
Also: Concertino for Piano and Strings Walter Leigh
Vita Nova
Mine Dogantan Dack piano
Miguel Esteban conductor
https://www.musicathill.org.uk/
1:15pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
All Saints Church, Down Ampney, Glos GL7 5QW
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Friends
The New Commonwealth; Silence and Music; The Turtle Dove; Come Away Death; The Spring Time of the Year; Just as the Tide was Flowing; The Lover’s Ghost; Alister McAlpine’s Lament; Ca’ The Yowes and Three Shakespeare Songs.
Also:
C. V. Stanford: The Blue Bird; The Swallow
Hubert Parry: Songs of Farewell 1-4
John Ireland: The Hills
Directed by Ian Assersohn
7pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
All Saints Church, Down Ampney, Glos GL7 5QW
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Friends
The New Commonwealth; Silence and Music; The Turtle Dove; Come Away Death; The Spring Time of the Year; Just as the Tide was Flowing; The Lover’s Ghost; Alister McAlpine’s Lament; Ca’ The Yowes and Three Shakespeare Songs.
Also: C. V. Stanford The Blue Bird; The Swallow
Hubert Parry Songs of Farewell 1-4
John Ireland The Hills
Directed by Ian Assersohn
7pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
Bury St Edmunds, St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Symphony No.1 A Sea Symphony
Symphony No.2 A London Symphony
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra
Leslie Olive conductor
7.30 pm
website
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
St George’s Bristol BS1 5RR
The Heart’s Voice
Valiant for truth
Silence and Music
The Heart’s Voice
Rest
Also: Three short pieces from the
Charterhouse Suite
(arr Gary Ryan Folk Song Suite for choir and 2 guitars)
Exultute Singers
Gary Ryan and Craig Ogden
Conductor David Ogden
7:30pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
Philhamonic Hall, Liverpool
Serenade to Music
The Lark Ascending
Film music from
Scott of the Antarctic
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conductor
Thelma Handy violin
Katie Coventry soprano
Sopranos and Altos from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, S1 1HA
Symphony no. 3 Pastoral
also:
MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra
Finzi Clarinet Concerto in C minor, Op.31
The Brigantes Orchestra
Emma Johnson clarinet
Laurie Ashworth soprano
Quentin Clare conductor
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Symphony No.1 A Sea Symphony
Symphony No.2 A London Symphony
The English Arts Chorale
Eye Bach Choir
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra
Leslie Olive conductor
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
Wigmore Hall, London
Ralph Vaughan Williams Anniversary concert
Nocturne and Scherzo
for string quintet (1906)
On Wenlock Edge
for tenor, piano and string quartet
Six Studies on English Folk Tunes
for cello & piano
Five Mystical Songs
for baritone, piano & string quartet)
Phantasy String Quintet
Serenade to Music
(for 2 pianos and 16 singers)
Also: Bax Elegiac Trio for flute, viola & harp
Bridge Phantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor
Elgar Salut d’amour, La capricieuse, Sospiri for violin & piano
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
St Andrew’s Church Upper Church Lane Farnham GU9 7PW
Oboe Concerto
Handel – Overture ‘The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba’
Taylor ‘Castle Vistas’ World Premiere
Schubert Symphony No.5
James Turnbull oboe
Farnham Sinfonia
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
St George’s, Bristol
Valiant for truth
Silence and Music
The Heart’s Voice
Rest
Three short pieces from the Charterhouse Suite for guitar Arr Gary Ryan Folk Song Suite for choir and 2 guitars
Exultute Singers
Gary Ryan and Craig Ogden
David Ogden conductor
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
St. Peter’s Church Choir, Evercreech
An evening of music and song to celebrate the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan-Williams
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16
Conway Hall, Holborn
Suite for Viola
(arranged for viola and piano)
Holst Lyric Movement arranged for viola and piano
Rebecca Clarke Passacaglia on an Old English tune
Frederick Delius Serenade from ‘Hassan’ arranged for viola and piano by Lionel Tertis
Ernest Bloch Rhapsodie, from Suite hébraïque
Masquerade (Hornpipe), from ‘Much ado about nothing’ – Erich Korngold, arranged for viola and piano by Lionel Tertis
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16
DRMC Dandenong Ranges, Music Council, Rear of Upwey, High School, 451 Burwood, Highway, Upwey (Melways ref 75 B8) AUSTRALIA
A charity concert celebrating 150 years since the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams. All door sales to a shelter for homeless women and children.
The Six Studies in English Folk Song
In Windsor Forest
The Lake in the Mountains
Suite de Ballet
Songs by J. Rutten and The Apple Tree by Miriam Hyde
Two songs by Jacqui Rutten with
The Riddell Ensemble
Epilogue (movement 4) Quartet No. 2 in A minor.
In Windsor Forest – Singularity Choir, led by Cecilcily Woodberry (piano reduction).
Danielle Zuccala & Jo-Anne Mileto (piano)
MonicaEdwards cello and
Mary Knights-Rutten piano
Livia Judge flute with piano.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (UTC+10)
All donations to a shelter for women & children
also
https://www.trybooking.com/BWYFC
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16
Christ Church, Nailsworth, Gloucs.
Suite for Viola
The Lark Ascending
arrangement for solo violin, piano and string quartet.
On Wenlock Edge
The Bristol Ensemble
3pm
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16
Conway Hall, Holborn
‘Seeking Utopia’: a programme of words and music celebrating the friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams and violist Lionel Tertis, in the 150th year since Vaughan Williams’ birth
Suite for Viola
arranged for viola and piano
Holst Lyric Movement arranged for viola and piano
Rebecca Clarke Passacaglia on an Old English tune
Frederick Delius Serenade from ‘Hassan’ arranged for viola and piano by Lionel Tertis
Ernest Bloch Rhapsodie, from Suite Hébraïque
Erich Korngold, arr. Tertis Hornpipe, from Much ado about nothing
Shiry Rashkovsky viola
Viv McLean piano
Jessica Duchen narrator
THURSDAY OCTOBER 20
Ukraine Catholic Cathedral, Duke St, London, W1K 5BQ
In aid of Ukraine
Dona Nobis Pacem
and works by Coates, Lehar, Dvorak and Mussorgsky
Ealing Symphony Chorus
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
Roderick Williams Baritone
The London Chorus
John Gibbons Conductor (ESO)
Ronald Corp Conductor (TLC)
8:00pm
THURSDAY OCTOBER 20
Auditorio Blas Galindo. Centro Nacional de las Artes. Río Churubusco y Calzada de Tlalpan S/N. Mexico City, MEXICO
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: EL CANTO DE ALBIÓN – Program I
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Concerto for oboe and strings
Epithalamion
(Mexican première)
Rolando Cantú oboe
Gradus ad Parnassum Chamber Choir
Tempus Fugit Ensemble
Christian Gohmer conductor
8:00pm
THURSDAY OCTOBER 20
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Richard Rodney BennettPartita
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Louis Schwizgebel piano
John Wilson conductor
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21
Holywell Music Room, Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3BN
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY 150 COMMISSION CONCERT
13:00 – 14:00
On Wenlock Edge
Ian Venables Portraits of the Mind (RVW Society Commission – world premiere)
Commissioned by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society to mark the 150th birthday of Vaughan Williams, Portraits of the Mind is a companion piece scored for the same forces – tenor, string quartet and piano – as On Wenlock Edge.
Alessandro Fisher Tenor
William Vann Pianist
Navarra Quartet
All seating is unreserved; please arrive in good time to take your seat.
The event duration is approximately 1 hour and there will be no interval.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Prior to the performance:
11:00 – 12:00
St Edmund Hall: The Old Dining Hall, Queen’s Lane Oxford OX1 4AR
Ian Venables and Leah Broad: In Conversation
FREE but please book ticket:
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
St. Olave’s Anglican Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tracing the Tunes: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Folk Song
Selections from Folk Songs of England, Books 2 & 5 : arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Six Studies in English Folk Song
The Lake in the Mountains
Ten Blake Songs
Alexander Cappellazzo Tenor
Timothy Yung Clarinet
Ivan Jovanovic Piano
A pre-concert video presentation will be given by Caroline Davison, author of the upcoming book The Captain’s Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song.
Tickets: $30
7:30pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
St Matthew’s Church, The Drive, Northampton NN1 4RY
Symphony No.9
George Gershwin An American in Paris
Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Dinara Klinton Piano
John Gibbons Conductor
7.30pm
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 and SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3 Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Symphony no. 9 in E minor
Also: Nelson, Daniel Chaplin Songs (world premiere)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Swedish Radio Choir
Andrew Manze conductor
Camilla Tilling soprano
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21
St Margaret’s Church, Lee Terrace, London SE13 5DL
On Wenlock Edge
Carwithen Overture ‘ODTAA’ (One Damn Thing after Another)
Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Guy Elliott tenor
Andrew Morley conductor
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21
Finchingfield Guildhall, Finchingfield Guildhall, Church Hill, Finchingfield, Braintree CM7 4NN
Potiphar’s Apprentices – Ballads of Essex
Performing ballads inspired by celebrated English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams collected almost 100 songs from Essex and surrounding which he described as “genuine folk songs with beautiful tunes.” Potiphar’s Apprentices came together to perform these songs so rich in poetry, drama and humour.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
St Matthew’s Church, The Drive, Northampton, NN1 4RY
Symphony No.9
George Gershwin An American in Paris
Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Dinara Klinton piano
John Gibbons conductor
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
St Mary’s Church, Causeway, Horsham, RH12 1HE
A Celebration for RVW150 – Horsham Music Circle
The Lark Ascending (for solo violin and piano)
Phantasy Quintet
Nocturne & Scherzo for strings
Studies on English Folksong for cello & piano
Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes for organ
Also solo songs including a selection from Songs of Travel. The audience will be invited to take part too, joining in and adding to the grandeur of the opening hymn, RVWs arrangement of The Old Hundredth, first performed at Westminster Abbey in 1953 at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and for the final hymn Sine Nomine – For All the Saints composed by RVW for the English Hymnal.
Zoe Eborn violin
Jeremy Weaver conductor
Edward Dean organ
Joe Giddey cello
Ian Gardner baritone
Jill Elsworthy soprano
Sussex Chamber Players led by Anna Giddey
7.30pm
For tickets contact Horsham Music Circle on 01403 252602, email horshammusiccircle@gmail.com or online at: wegottickets.com/HorshamMusicCircle.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
St. Olave’s Anglican Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tracing the Tunes: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Folk Song
Selections from Folk Songs of England, Books 2 & 5 : arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Six Studies in English Folk Song
The Lake in the Mountains
Ten Blake Songs
Alexander Cappellazzo tenor
Timothy Yung clarinet
Ivan Jovanovic piano
A pre-concert video presentation will be given by Caroline Davison, author of the upcoming book The Captain’s Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22
The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle NE1 1SE
Nocturne and Scherzo
Phantasy string quintet
The Lark Ascending
Bradley Creswick violin
Martin Hughes violin
John Garner viola
Marie Schreer viola
Gemma Kost cello
Join Bradley Creswick, the former leader of Royal Northern Sinfonia, as he’s joined by a string quartet made up of some of the best musicians in the North East to perform the works of Vaughan Williams.
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 23
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP
The Willow Song
3 Shakespeare Songs
The House of life
Also: Songs by Elizabeth Maconchy, Madeline Dring. Grace Williams and Rebecca Clarke
Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano
William Vann piano
SUNDAY OCTOBER 23
The Great Hall, Malvern College, College Road, Great Malvern, WR14 3DF
Concerto Grosso
European Union Chamber Orchestra
Darragh Morgan – Director
Mark Baigent – Oboe
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26
Royal Festival Hall, London
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
The Lark Ascending
Symphony No.9
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze conductor
Daniel Pioro violin
THURSDAY OCTOBER 27
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Rd, Malvern, WR14 3HB
Malvern Concert Club
A Birthday Celebration for Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Linden Lea
The Call
And songs by: Maurice Ravel, Max Bruch, Rebecca Clarke, Grace Williams, Gustav Holst, Ivor Gurney, Herberyt Howells and others
Roderick Williams and Susie Allan
THURSDAY OCTOBER 27
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
A Sea Symphony
The RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Adrian Partington conductor
Misha Kaploukhii piano
RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Mark Biggins chorus director
THURSDAY October 27, 8:00pm
Auditorio Blas Galindo. Centro Nacional de las Artes. Río Churubusco y Calzada de Tlalpan S/N. Mexico City, MEXICO
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: EL CANTO DE ALBIÓN – Program II
Ten Blake Songs
for soprano and oboe
Quintet with piano in C minor
The Lake in the Mountains, for piano
6 Studies on English Folksongs for cello and piano
String Quartet No. 1 in G minor
(Mexican premières)
Gabriela Herrera soprano.
Daniel Rodríguez oboe
Cuarteto Ruvalcaba, César Bourguet, cello
Rodolfo Henkel piano
FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Live and LIVESTREAMED
A Sea Symphony
Liszt Piano Concerto no 2 in A major S 125
The RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Adrian Partington conductor
Misha Kaploukhii piano
RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Mark Biggins chorus director
FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
Hinde Street Methodist Church, London W1U 2QJ
London Song Festival – Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams
Extracts from Songs of Travel, House of Life, the Four Last Songs, Four Poems of Fredegond Shove, Three Poems by Walt Whitman and many other gems, Linden Lea, Dreamland, and Rondel among them. A central feature of this programme will be the premieres of three songs by Roderick Williams OBE, commissioned by the London Song Festival for this concert.
Lotte Betts-Dean – mezzo-soprano
Julien Van Mellaerts – baritone
Nigel Foster – piano
Harriet Slater – actress
John D Collins – actor
SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER
New Auditorium, The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, G2 3NY
The Lark Ascending
Richard Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Prelude
Jean Sibelius Andante festivo
Joshua Brown Hardened by Sun and Air (Making Music ‘Adopt a Music Creator’ Commission)
Jean Sibelius Symphony no.7
Glasgow Orchestral Society
Iona McDonald violin
Chris Swaffer conductor
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
Conway Hall, Camden, London
Piano Quintet in C minor
John McCabe Sam Variations for violin, viola, cello, double bass & piano
Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A major ‘The Trout’, D.667
I Musicanti
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
Turner Sims, University of Southampton
Vaughan Williams Discovery Afternoon
David Owen Norris presenter, piano
Includes a rare showing of the film The Passions of Vaughan Williams (winner of the FIPA Prix d’Argent in 2009). The film’s director, John Bridcut, joins the panel for the round table discussion.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
Broadstone Methodist Church, Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Poole BH18 8DP
Phantasy Quintet
Also: Beethoven Quartet Op.18, No.2
Mozart Quintet No.3 in C, K515
Violins Mark Derudder, Carol Paige
Violas Tom Beer, Miguel Rodriguez
Cello Jesper Svedberg
4.00pm
NOVEMBER
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JD
Concerto for Oboe and Strings
Piano Quintet in C minor
Also: Ravel Sonatine for piano
ENSEMBLE 360
7:00pm
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4
St Martin in the Fields, London
Serenade to Music
Harris Faire is the Heaven
Finzi Lo the full final sacrífice
Harris Bring us O Lord God
Tavener Song for Athene
Interspersed with five short reflections by contemporary women composers
Duruflé Notre Pere, opus 14
Duruflé Requiem
BBC Singers
Ashley Grote Organ
Lionel Sow Conductor
7:30pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
Southbank
Sinfonia Birthday Party
Concerto Grosso
Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, Op.102
Roxanna Panufnik A Southbank Sinfonia Commission, 2nd performance
Southbank Sinfonia
Tamás András violin
Andrew Skidmore cello
7.30pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
The Halls, St Andrew’s Plain, Norwich NR3 1AU
In the Fen Country
Orff Carmina Burana
Dani Howard Argentum
Norwich Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra
Matthew Andrews and David Dunnett conductors
Jenny Stafford soprano
Paul Hopwood tenor
Adam Green bass
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
CAST, Waterdale DN1 3BU, Doncaster
The Lark Ascending
Concerto for Oboe and Strings
Piano Quintet in C minor
Ravel Sonatine for piano
ENSEMBLE 360
7:00pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Serenade to Music
(Orchestral Version)
Symphony No. 5
Also: Philip Le Bas Yuki-Onna
Eric Coates The Three Elizabeths Suite
Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra
George Vass Conductor
3:00pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’
Benedicite
Symphony No 1, ‘A Sea Symphony’
City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra City of Birmingham Choir
Alexandra Lowe soprano
Benson Wilson baritone
Adrian Lucas conductor
15:00
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
Stoke Damerel Church, Plymouth
The Lark Ascending
Salut d’amour Op 12 Sir Edward Elgar
Crown Imperial, ‘Coronation March’ Sir William Walton
Peter Fisher Director Chamber Ensemble of London
15:00
MONDAY NOVEMBER 7
St John’s Smith Square, London
Symphony No.2 ‘London’
Shostakovich Gadfly Suite Op.97a
Westminster School Symphony Orchestra
Westminster School Lower School Orchestra
Giordan Price Conductor
Guy Hopkins Conductor
Michael Heighway Conductor
7.00pm
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9
Hall One, Kings Place,
London Voices Unwrapped
3 Shakespeare Songs
(new arrangement with strings)
The Lark Ascending
(for voices, strings and solo violin) arr. Paul Drayton
Roxanna Panufnik O Hearken
Charles Villiers Stanford The Bluebird (new arrangement with strings)
Jonathan Dove Vertue
Paul Smith Distant Earth Renewal
Ola Gjeilo Sacred Heart Tundra
Caroline Shaw And the Swallow (new arrangement with violin)
Christopher Tin Suite from The Lost Birds
Taylor Scott Davis Et Misericordia (new arrangement for solo violin and strings)
Samuel Barber Agnus Dei (new arrangement with strings)
VOCES8
Jack Liebeck violin
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10
Symphony Hall, Birmingham Vaughan Williams at 150:
5 Mystical Songs
The Wasps: Overture
Toward the Unknown Region
Five Mystical Songs
Symphony No. 5
Michael seal Conductor
Roderick Williams CBSO Baritone
Chorus City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra
7:30pm
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Vaughan Williams at 150
As part of our Vaughan Williams at 150 celebrations, members of the CBSO string section perform his Phantasy Quintet, with its distinct echoes of English folksong.
Phantasy Quintet String
Quintet Op. 29 in C Major Beethoven
Philip Brett violin
Charlotte Skinner violin
Christopher Yates viola
Catherine Bower viola
Miguel Fernandes cello
2pm
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Vaughan Williams at 150
“To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”: the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic is a true classic of British cinema, shot in spectacular full colour. Naturally, they asked Vaughan Williams to write the score – and now, in his 150th year, we get to hear his extraordinary music in full colour too, as the CBSO and Martyn Brabbins accompany the film, live in concert. https://cbso.co.uk/event/scott-of-the-antarctic
Scott of the Antarctic
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Katie Trethewey soprano
CBSO Youth Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
7:30pm
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11
Merton College Chapel
An Oxford Elegy
Also: Ian Venables Requiem
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia Benjamin Nicholas conductor
19:30
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral , Mount Pleasant L3 5TQ
Five Mystical Songs
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Also Fauré Requiem
Choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Liverpool Mozart Orchestra
Christopher McElroy Director
Damian O’Keeffe Baritone
Christopher McElroy Conductor
19.00
Tickets (£10/5 concessions)
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
St Peter’s Church, Kensington Park Road
1930s: Vaughan Williams & Stravinsky
Symphony No. 4
Also: Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Stravinsky Symphony in C
Conductor Mark Biggins
Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra
7:30 PM
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Gloucester Cathedral, GL2 2AB
11:00 am – Chapter House
Songs by Holst and Vaughan Williams
Emily Khatib, Maisie O’Shea and James Lawson
Adrian Partington Piano
2:00 pm – Chapter House
Vaughan Williams Romance and Pastoral
Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Holst Five Early Pieces
(Song Without Words; A Spring Song; Greeting; Maya; Vale-étude)
Holst Song of the Night
Hannah Roper violin
Adrian Lucas piano
4:30pm – Gloucester Cathedral
Annual Cathedral Choirs Concert
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Vaughan Williams Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
Vaughan Williams O Clap Your Hands
Holst Turn Back O Man
Holst Psalm 86
Holst Ave Maria
Holst Short Festival Te Deum
Holst Nunc Dimittis
Gloucester Cathedral Choir, with Youth Choir and Middle Choir
Adrian Partington Director
These three concerts are organised jointly by The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and The Holst Society.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Chichester Cathedral
The Wasps Overture
Dona nobis pacem
Richard Merrill Brown – Hereward (World Première)
The Chichester Singers Southern Pro
Bibi Heal Musica Soprano –
Oliver Johnson tenor
Ossian Huskinson bass
Jonathan Willcocks Conductor
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Coventry Cathedral CV1 5AB
Lord thou hast been our refuge
Toward the unknown region
Te Deum in G
Coventry Cathedral Chorus
Warwickshire SO
Paul Leddington Wright conductor
7:00pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College
RVW150: Celebrating the 150th Birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Violin-piano version
Chu-Yu Yang violin
Eric McElroy piano
Gustav Holst Lied ohne Worte, Valse-Étude
Ivor Gurney The Apple Orchard
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Bloom
Ian Venables Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 23
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Langley Park Arts Centre Beckenham BR3 3BP
Sinfonia Antartica
Smyth The Wreckers
Elgar Cello Concerto
Soloist Alice McVeigh
Conductor Simon McVeigh
Adrian Brown, conductor Bromley Symphony
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
St Mary’s Church, Prestbury, Gloucs.
Severn Meadows: Music inspired by Gloucestershire
Mass in G minor
Herbert Howells Requiem
Kerensa Briggs ‘Severn Meadows’ (a setting of Gurney’s poem)
Cantores Chamber Choir
7:30 pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Mount Pleasant, L3 5TQ
Five Mystical Songs
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Fauré Requiem Mass
The choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool
Mozart Orchestra
Baritone Damian O’Keeffe
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
St Martin’s Church, Dorking, Surrey
Symphony No. 5
Dorking Philharmonia
Paul Newbold Conductor
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Cecil Rd Enfield EN2 6TG
Serenade to Music
Beethoven 9th Symphony
Enfield Chamber Orchestra
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
St Mary’s Church, Horsham, RH12 1HE
Symphony No. 5 in D
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Op. 56 (Triple Concerto)
Horsham Symphony Orchestra
The Mithras Trio
Steve Dummer Conductor
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, Gloucester
Birthday Celebration for Ralph Vaughan Williams
Linden Lea
The Call
And songs by: Maurice Ravel, Max Bruch, Rebecca Clarke, Grace Williams, Gustav Holst, Ivor Gurney, Herberyt Howells and others
Roderick Williams and Susie Allan
http://www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Merton College Chapel
RVW150: Celebrating the 150th Birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Herbert Howells Gloucester Service
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas conductor
https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/event/
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
St George’s, Bristol
Music of Remembrance
Dona Nobis Pacem
Richard Blackford Also Pieta
City of Bristol Choir
Bristol Ensemble
Amy Dickson saxophone
David Ogden conductor
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP
Piano Quintet in C minor
Coleridge-Taylor Nonet for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn & Piano, Op.2
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Royal Spa Centre Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN
Music for Remembrance Sunday
Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th anniversary and popular band pieces.
Tredegar Band
RBC Brass Band
Youth Brass 2000
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
The Assembly Hall, Worthing
Symphony No 3 ‘Pastoral’
Symphony No. 5
William Alwyn Salute The Brave
Sir Edward Elgar Sea Pictures
Eric Coates Dambusters March
Sheldon Bair The Homefront
Worthing Symphony Orchestra Eirlys Myfanwy Davies (mezzo soprano)
John Gibbons Conductor
WEDNESDAY November 16
Stratford Play House, Rother Street CV37 6LU
An English Fantasia
Oboe Concerto in A minor
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Britten Simply Symphony, Op. 4
Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z.730
Delius Two Aquarelles
Walton Two Pieces from Henry V
James Wilson The Green Fuse
Orchestra of the Swan
Nicholas Daniel oboe
Jason Lai conductor
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17
Royal Festival Hall, London
Vaughan Williams: a Celebration
The Wasps
The Garden of Proserpine
Symphony No 1, ‘A Sea Symphony’
Philharmonia Orchestra
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
The Bach Choir
David Hill conductor
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17
Morpeth Music Society
Songs of Travel
Schubert Set of six songs
Jonathan Dove Under Alter’d Skies
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18
Cirencester Parish Church
Severn Meadows: Music inspired by Gloucestershire
Mass in G minor
Herbert Howells Requiem
Kerensa Briggs Severn Meadows (a setting of Gurney’s poem)
Cantores Chamber Choir
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19
St. Faith & St. Laurence Church, Birmingham, B32 2EL
Including: O be joyful in the Lord, Sun, Moon, Stars and Man & In Windsor Forest.
Darren Hogg Organ & Piano
Directed by Nicola Starkie
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19
Chester Cathedral
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
A Sea Symphony
Stanford Songs of the Fleet
Susanna Fairbairn soprano
James Cleverton baritone
Caterina Bordoni violin
Chester Music Society Choir
Liverpool Sinfonia
Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19
Salisbury Cathedral
Symphony No 1 A Sea Symphony
Eleanor Dennis soprano
Dominic Sedgwick baritone
Salisbury Musical Society choir
Chelsea Opera Group Orchestra (orchestra only)
David Halls conductor
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19
St Marks Church Westmoreland Rd Bromley BR2 0TB
Vision of Aeroplanes
Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
Five English Folksongs
Kodaly Missa Brevis
Allegri Singers
Steven Anthony Brown Conductor
Tim Wakerell Organist
7.45pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20
Philharmonic Hall Liverpool
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Dohnányi Variations on a Nursery Tune
Dvořák Symphony no. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op.95
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20
Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, USA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Running Set
Frank Martin Petite Symphonie Concertante
Haydn Symphony No. 99
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24
Suntory Hall: Main Hall Akasaka 1-13-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-8403, Japan
Five variants of Dives and Lazarus
Symphony no. 5 in D major
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo
Leonard Slatkin conductor
Ray Chen violin
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23
Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA, United Kingdom
The Lark Ascending
Tarrodi Paradisfåglar I (Birds of Paradise I)
Waller-Bridge Temperatures
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela, Op.22 no.2
Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus
Pekka Kuusisto conductor violin
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24
City Halls: Concert Hall, Candleriggs, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 1NQ, United Kingdom
Symphony no. 5 in D major
Sibelius Tapiola Op.112
Strauss Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano
Martyn Brabbins conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London, SE1 8UE
English Music Festival
Hymn Tune Prelude on “Song 13”
The Lake in the Mountains
Parry Shulbrede Tunes
Baines Tides
Elgar In Smyrna
Elgar Skizze
Elgar Concert Allegro
Duncan Honeybiourne piano
3.00pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Symphony No 1 A London Symphony
L Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Suk Serenade for Strings in E flat major op 6
Young cellists perform with the RCM Junior Department Symphony Orchestra
Jacques Cohen conductor (RCMJD Symphony Orchestra)
Christopher Hirons director (RCMJD Chamber Orchestra)
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX
Serenade to Music
Tippett A Child of Our Time
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Nadine Benjamin soprano
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Tarver tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
London Adventist Chorale
Musicians from the Royal College of Music
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
Rotherham Minster Church Street Rotherham S60 1PD
Symphony No2 A London Symphony
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Director Alex Robinson
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
St. Peter’s Church, Hereford HR1 2DL
English Folk Song Suite
5 Mystical Songs
Symphony No 2 A London Symphony
Hereford Symphony Orchestra
Hereford Chamber Choir
Michael Bell MBE conductor
Rob Pritchard soloist
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
The Old Gym, Wellington College, Crowthorne, RG45 7DY
Symphony No 2 A London Symphony
Britten Four Sea Interludes
Bridge The Sea
Crowthorne Symphony Orchestra
Robert Roscoe conductor
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
City Halls: Concert Hall, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
Scott of the Antarctic
Film music from
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Women of the Glasgow Chamber Choir
Martyn Brabbins conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
Worcester Cathedral
Symphony No 1 A Sea Symphony
Frederick Delius Sea Drift
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Meridian Sinfonia
Samuel Hudson conductor
Sarah Fox soprano
Andrew Mayor baritone
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
GLive, Guildford
Symphony No 1 A Sea Symphony
Walton Crown Imperial
Delius Dance Rhapsody no 2
Elgar Cello Concerto
Guildford Symphony Orchestra
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
St Philip and St James Church, Cheltenham
In Windsor Forest
Five Mystical Songs
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Hannah Davey soprano
David Smith baritone
Charlton Kings Choral Society
John Wright Conductor
7:30pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
St Philip and St James Church Cheltenham
Dona Nobis Pacem
Five Mystical Songs
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Hannah Davey soprano
Frazer Scott baritone
Charlton Kings Choral Society
John Wright conductor
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27
Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury Kent CT2 7NB
Symphony No.5
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Prelude to 49th Parallel
Holst St Pauls Suite
Ruth Gipps Seascape
Canterbury Orchestra
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
St Barnabas Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5 1QG
Arctic London
A London Symphony
Richard Strauss Don Juan
Martin Jones Arctic Adventure Suite
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
John Gibbons Conductor
7:30pm
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
The Corn Exchange, Bedford MK40 1SL
Hodie
Toward the Unknown Region
Serenade to Music
The Wasps Overture
Bedford Choral Society
Bedford Sinfonia
Biddenham International School Choir
Georgina Murphy Director of Music
Elizabeth Bottone Soprano
Philip Salmon Tenor
Philip Tebb Bass
Ian Smith Conductor
7.30pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27
Saffron Hall, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden CB11 4UH
Serenade to Music
Tippett A Child of Our Time
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Nadine Benjamin soprano
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Tarve tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
London Adventist Chorale
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27
Trinity URC Church, Wimbledon
Wimbledon Festival
Oboe Concerto
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Dvorak Nocturne for Strings
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Elgar Introduction and Allegro
Philharmonia
Robin O’Neill conductor
Timothy Rundle oboe
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30
Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall Belvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX
Five Mystical Songs
Bruckner Symphony no. 9 in D minor, WAB 109
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Robin Ticciati conductor
Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone
DECEMBER
THURSDAY DECEMBER 1
FRIDAY DECEMBER 2
Teatro Cervantes C/ Ramos Marín, s/n, Málaga, Andalusia, 29012, Spain
The Lark Ascending
Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (Versión para viola de L. Tertis
Wenting Kang viola
Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga
José María Moreno conductor
THURSDAY DECEMBER 1
Howden Minster, Howden, East Yorkshire, DN14 7BL
British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano
In celebration of Vaughan Williams’ 150th, his Ten Blake Songs are at the heart of this lunchtime concert along with Britten’s Winter Words, for a wintery programme with themes of night-time and nature running throughout.
Ten Blake Songs
(tenor & piano)
Linden Lea
(tenor & piano)
Also: Britten Winter Words (tenor & piano) Britten Notturno (piano)
Ruth Gipps Sea-Shore Suite Op.3b (oboe & piano)
Katherine Bryer oboe
Rory Carver tenor
Irena Radić piano
1:00pm
FRIDAY DECEMBER 2
Melrose Parish Church Hall, St Mary’s Rose, Melrose, Scotland, TD6 9LJ
British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano
In celebration of Vaughan Williams’s 150th, his Ten Blake Songs are at the heart of this evening recital along with Britten’s Winter Words and works by Thea Musgrave and Ruth Gipps. Perfect for a December evening, this wintery programme explores themes of nature and night-time.
Ten Blake Songs
(tenor & piano)
Linden Lea
(tenor & piano)
Also: Britten Winter Words (tenor & piano) Britten Notturno (piano)
Ruth Gipps Sea-Shore Suite Op.3b (oboe & piano)
Katherine Bryer oboe
Rory Carver tenor
Irena Radić piano
7:30pm
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3
St John’s Cathedral, 129 George Street, Oban, Scotland, PA34 5NT
British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano
In celebration of Vaughan Williams’s 150th, his Ten Blake Songs are at the heart of this afternoon recital along with Britten’s Winter Words and works by Thea Musgrave and Ruth Gipps. This wintery programme explores themes of nature and night-time.
Ten Blake Songs
(tenor & piano)
Linden Lea
(tenor & piano)
Also: Britten Winter Words (tenor & piano) Britten Notturno (piano)
Ruth Gipps Sea-Shore Suite Op.3b (oboe & piano)
Katherine Bryer oboe
Rory Carver tenor
Irena Radić piano
3:00pm
SATURDAY JANUARY 7
Darlington Dolphin Centre, Darlington, DL1 5RP
British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano
Vaughan Williams’s Ten Blake Songs are at the heart of this evening recital along with Britten’s Winter Words and works by Thea Musgrave and Ruth Gipps. Perfect for a crisp January evening, this wintery programme explores themes of nature and night-time.
Ten Blake Songs
(tenor & piano)
Linden Lea
(tenor & piano)
Also: Britten Winter Words (tenor & piano) Britten Notturno (piano)
Ruth Gipps Sea-Shore Suite Op.3b (oboe & piano)
Katherine Bryer oboe
Rory Carver tenor
Irena Radić piano
7:30pm
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Sancta Civitas
Dona Nobis Pacem
Oxford Bach Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
Benjamin Nicholas conductor
7.30pm
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3
All Saints’ Church, Down Ampney
Music by: The Burford Chorale
Directed by: Brian Kaye
Influences on Vaughan Williams:
Sing We And Chant It (Thomas Morley)
Who Is Sylvia? (George Shearing)
Hail, Gladdening Light (Charles Wood)
Beati Quorum Via (Charles Villiers Stanford)
My Soul, There Is A Country (Hubert Parry)
Legacy of Vaughan Williams:
Dances Of Time (Bob Chilcott)
Pastime With Good Company (Henry V111Th)
Today (Thomas Carlyle)
Gather Ye Rosebuds (Robert Herrick)
To Everything There Is A Season (Ecclesiastes)
Life Has Loveliness To Sell (Sara Teasdale)
The Music of Vaughan Williams:
Linden Lea
O Mistress Mine
Fain Would I Change That Note Te Deum In G
Folk Songs Arrangements
The Sailor And Young Nancy (Arr. E.J. Moeran)
The Londonderry Air (Arr. Bob Chilcott)
Three Hungarian Folksongs (Arr. Matyas Seiber)
A Selection of Christmas Carols and Songs
The Blessed Son Of God (Vaughan Williams)
A Little Child There Is born (Philip Ledger)
Ding Dong Merrily On High (Arr. Charles Wood)
Kwmbayah (Arr. K.J. Dinham)
The Very Best Time Of Year (John Rutter) With Audience:
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Vaughan Williams)
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
In the Fen Country
Also Korngold Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No.12
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra
(Alex Redington soloist Violin Concerto)
Richard Hull Director
THURSDAY DECEMBER 8
Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 30 Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8JB
A programme of Christmas music, old and new, as part of the Lloyd’s Choir’s Centenary season
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Jacques Cohen Conductor
Lloyd’s Choir
Cohen Ensemble
7.00pm
SATURDAY DECEMBER 10
New Auditorium, The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, G2 3NY
Prelude 49th Parallel
Also: Erich Korngold King’s Row, Main Title
Dimitri Tiomkin It’s A Wonderful Life
and other film scores
Glasgow Orchestral Society
Chris Swaffer Conductor
7:30
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