ARTISTS
Lesley Garrett Photo courtesy of Simon Fowler/Decca Records |
Lesley Garrett. Britain's popular soprano presents a recital evening of songs and arias of well known operas, rnusicals and popular music. Lesley will be accompanied by pianist Andrew West and joined by a special guest singer. The programme will include works by composers including Mozart. Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams, Potter, Berlin and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Renowned for her unique talents which cover opera, television, radio, concerts and the West End, Lesley has recently starred in 'Carousel' and the 'Sound of Music', appeared on television in 'Strictly Come Dancing', 'Loose Women' and 'Comic Relief Does Fame Academy' and sung with the English National and Welsh National Operas.
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Photo courtesy of Eric Richmond |
Missa Solemnis: The Tallis Scholars: director Peter Phillips. This programme features Flemish polyphony written before 1520, and English polyphony written after 1550. The Flemish first half is made up of music by the two most famous composers in Europe in their lifetimes. Today Josquin is the more renowned, yet Isaac was the more employed. His Missa Solemnis was probably written for the court in Vienna, adopting the local practice of setting the texts alternating chant and polyphony. The English half is centred around three major works. Tallis's Lamentations are well known: White's thrilling Exaudiat te, domine, with one of the greatest final cadences in the repertoire, less so. We conclude with Byrd's magesterial motet of praise to the Trinity, Tribue domine. | |
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EMMA JOHNSON MBE is one of the few clarinettists to have established a busy international career as a soloist. Emma performs across Europe, the USA and the Far East, as well as in Africa and Australia. In Britain she has achieved great popularity, regularly playing to sold-out concert halls. Emma Johnson has appeared with many leading orchestras in repertoire which includes over forty concertos, as well as being much in demand as a recitalist and chamber musician. Emma's programme brings together one of Brahms great chamber music works, the great E flat sonata for clarinet and piano as well as two rarely heard masterpieces, Mendelssohn's vivid sonata and the evocative sonata of Arnold Bax. Alongside this, Rachmaninov's romantic vocalise and virtuoso clarinet fireworks in Bassi's "Verdi Rigoletto Fantasy." | |
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Following their acclaimed performance of Gerontius in 2007, a not to be missed opportunity to hear another of Elgar's finest works performed by the Sherborne Festival Chorus. First performed at the Birmingham Music Festival in 1906, The Kingdom is Elgar's final oratorio and tells the story of the lives of Jesus's disciples following the Ascension. With rich and colourful orchestral writing and a dramatic vocal style which is almost operatic in places, it is Elgar at his most inspired. Like Gerontius a few years earlier, The Kingdom was commissioned by the festival. Unlike Gerontius however, which had a disastrous start, it was popular from the outset and at the first rehearsal the players kept breaking into spontaneous applause. Though it is not as often performed as its predecessor, Sir Adrian Boult considered it to be Elgar's greatest choral work - praise indeed! | |
 ZUM |
ZUM's ground-breaking world fusion weaves melodies from around the globe taking you from heart-stopping beauty to unbuttoned passion and explosive rhythmic power - sophisticated jazz magically glides into wild gypsy fiddling; Celtic lament to hot-blooded Arabic melody; Music from the golden era of tango alongside addictive traditional gypsy melodies with dazzling virtuoso fiddling. ZUM creates an acoustic meltdown - a cultural alchemy, where the world's music collides. "a highly individual fusion... rendered with unbuttoned passion and brilliance ... virtuoso performances" - The Strad "awesome gypsy violin playing a vibrant and compelling show" - What's On in London "intoxicating virtuoso fiddle playing" - The Times "fiery,passionate and intriguingly beautiful ...A delight to hear and a treat to watch"-BBC |
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Francesco Attesti
and Mattio Galli |
Verdi Requiem (UK premiere)
Francesco Attesti (piano) and Matteo Galli (organ)
Surely not! Well, yes because Francesco Attesti (internationally renowned pianist) and Matteo Galli (organist at the S.Maria presso S.Satiro Basilica in Milan) will give the UK premiere of the transcription by the French organist/composer Alfred Lebeau. After Verdi's publisher, Ricordi, had edited the transcription Verdi allowed it to be printed. The score was found by organist Matteo Galli in 2005 in a private library and apparently there are only two copies of the transcription surviving. A unique occasion not to be missed.
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Photo courtesy of Jonathan Docker-Drysdale |
Fay Weldon will be (in conversation with Fanny Charles, Editor of the Blackmore Vale Magazine) talking about her life and times, and latest book Chalcot Crescent, a cheerful dystopia set five years in the future. Fay is an internationally renowned novelist, ex-chairman of the judges of the Booker Prize, lives locally, and is a familiar voice and presence on radio and TV. She teaches creative writing at Brunel University.
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Ruth Rogers has been described as "one of the most gifted young violinists in Britain". Guitarist Morgan Szymanski has won numerous international competitions, and has been acclaimed as "a player destined for future glories". Together they will lead a workshop for budding young violinists and guitarists aged 8 -18. Ruth and Morgan will take separate and combined classes where the children will experience the thrill of working together to create group pieces. They will then show off their achievement in public by joining the two professional musicians for an electrifying concert in Sherborne's magnificent Abbey. The concert will feature works by composers including Falla, Bartok, Ponce and Piazzolla, all of whom use folk elements from their native countries: flamenco, gypsy music, romance and tango. There will be fireworks and virtuosity, but also melancholy and beauty. Not to be missed! |
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