Concert 3: Saturday 11 May at 5.30 pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Rd, Kew
Subscription Concert 3
Choral music constitutes a major part of Britten’s output, having occupied the composer throughout his creative life. Indeed it was a major choral work written at the age of 19 whose BBC broadcast made Britten a household name overnight. This program presents a mixture of sacred and secular works, all settings of English poetry (with a little macaronic verse), from anonymous Medieval writers through Robert Herrick, George Crabbe and John Clare to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden and William Plomer.
PROGRAM
Choral Dances from Gloriana
Hymn to St. Cecilia
A Hymn to the Virgin
Five Flower Songs
Sacred and Profane
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SINGERS
| Soprano Deborah Summerbell Michelle Clark Carol Veldhoven Katherine Norman Maria Pisani Claerwen Jones Kathryn Pisani |
Alto Belinda Wong Yi Wen Chin Megan Nelson Leonie Tonkin |
Tenor Peter Campbell Tim van Nooten Vaughan McAlley Stuart Tennant |
Bass Andrew Murray Thomas Bland Thomas Baldwin Mike Ormerod |