Khyam Allami A 21st Century Requiem WORLD PREMIERE
Brahms A German Requiem
8pm Saturday 11 November, St John’s Smith Square
Nika Goric soprano
Gareth John baritone
Khyam Allami oud
The London Chorus (Musical Director Ronald Corp)
Royal Orchestral Society
Kathleen Ferrier Award winners
Gemma Summerfield (soprano)
Gareth Brynmor John (baritone)
Christopher Glynn (piano)
Mendelssohn – Neue Liebe
Mendelssohn – Die Liebende schreibt
Mendelssohn – Hexenlied
Brahms – Four Serious Songs
Bachelet – Chère Nuit
Poulenc – Deux poèmes de Louis aragon
Sibelius – Vilse
Sibelius – Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote
Sibelius – Se’n har jag ej frågat mera
Tchaikovsky – At the Ball
Tchaikovsky – Don Juan’s Serenade
Rachmaninov – In the secret silence of the night
Mendelssohn – Six Duets (op. 63)
The annual competition commemorating Kathleen Ferrier is the country’s most prestigious award for singers. In a new partnership with the festival, two recent winners visit Ryedale to perform a varied programme that encompasses the graceful lyricism of Mendelssohn, deeply-felt songs to Biblical texts that Brahms composed in the last year of his life, and colourful and evocative songs from France, Russia and Scandinavia.
Saturday 17 June 2017, 7.45 pm
BRITISH CHORAL CLASSICS
Programme to include Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Katherine Crompton, Soprano
Gareth Brynmor John, Baritone
Behn Quartet
Alexander Pott, Organ
http://www.ealingchoralsociety.org.uk/current-season-2016-17
CARMINA BURANA
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Sunday June 4th 2017 – 2.30 p.m.
Come and be thrilled by the voices of 200 singers as the Liverpool Welsh Choral is joined by the renowned Birmingham Festival Choral Society and the Belvedere Chamber Choir, as they perform the vibrant Hebrew work Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein and Carl Orff’s spectacular Carmina Burana!
Conductor : Keith Orrell
http://www.lwcu.co.uk/concerts
BATHSONGS: AMERICAN SONGBOOKS
Date 26-05-2017 Time 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM VenueSt Swithin’sPrice£15 / £14 (£1 limited tickets available for Under 18’s)
Songs by Gershwin, Copland, Rodgers, Berlin, Kern, Barber, Gershwin and Bernstein
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Gareth Brynmor John, baritone
Christopher Glynn, piano
America has produced some of the best loved of all songs. Rising stars Gareth Brynmor John, winner of the Kathleen Ferrier award, together with Rowan Pierce, scholar at the Royal College of Music, will delight and touch your heart with songs full of beautiful melody and emotional sincerity, ranging from spiritual to Broadway.
Saturday 20th May 2017
10.00am BEYOND WENLOCK EDGE
Peter Parker and Katy Hamilton discuss AE Housman settings off the beaten track with musical contributions from Bethan Langford, Gareth Brynmor John and Gavin Roberts. Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Sunday 21st May 2017
2.00pm FREE FAMILY CONCERT
Choirs from Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire led by Gemma King, with Bethan Langford, Gareth Brynmor John and Gavin Roberts. Admission to this concert is free. St Laurence’s Church
3.30pm CHILDHOOD AMONG THE FERNS:
Family Values in Song
Bethan Langford, Nicky Spence, Gareth Brynmor John and Iain Burnside. Our closing recital looks at childhood, through the eyes of Britten, Howells, Buxton Orr, Stephen Hough and many others. Ludlow Assembly Rooms
English and French Twentieth Century Masterworks
Thursday 18 May 2017 19:00
Temple Church
Temple Church Choir
Roger Sayer conductor
Gareth Brynmor John baritone
Tickets and more information: https://www.templemusic.org/shop/english-and-french-masterworks/
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Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel
Interval
Duruflé Requiem
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The Temple Church Choir perform two of the greatest sacred choral pieces from the last century. Vaughan Williams’s Mass for double choir evokes the sounds of renaissance music whilst combining with the beautiful harmonic imprint that marks his territory. Duruflé’s timeless Requiem, based on Gregorian plainchant, is the perfect piece for the acoustics and organ of the Temple Church.
There will be a short interval.
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This concert is generously supported by Inner and Middle Temple.
Saturday, 6th May 2017, 7.30pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region, a favourite with the Saint Michael’s Singers, will open this exciting, all-English programme.
Belshazzar’s Feast: Walton
It could be argued that Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast is one of the greatest choral works of all time. For double choir, semi-chorus, baritone, huge orchestra, organ and 2 brass bands – large-scale doesn’t come into it! The telling of the Old Testament story of the fall of Babylon and the greedy exploits of King Nebuchadnezzar provide the foundation for a musical drama of epic proportions with one of the most exciting conclusions ever written.
This is a choral tour de force and allows the choir and audience to enjoy Vaughan Williams’ beautifully melodic and carefully-crafted setting of Walt Whitman’s poetry. The Enigma Variations give the Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra the chance to perform one of Elgar’s most beautiful orchestral pieces, which includes Nimrod, one of the most famous orchestral movements of all time.
From the most gently sublime melodies to the vast forces and resulting drama of Belshazzar’s Feast, this will be an ideal programme to present in the dramatic surroundings of Coventry Cathedral.
Witness a world disrupted, shocked and changed forever
From the fall of Russia’s last Tsar to the rise of the first communist state, this definitive exhibition takes a fresh look at the Russian Revolution 100 years on.
With rarely seen items from both sides of the conflict – from a first edition of the Communist Manifesto to anti-Bolshevik propaganda – this is a unique chance to understand the lesser-known personal stories behind the events that changed the world.
Opening reception.
Songs with Maya Soltan accompanying:
Prokofiev: Soldier’s Marching Song Op.121
Shostakovich: Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op. 46A
Regeneration
Prokofiev: 2 Choruses Op. 66a (Baritone)
Partizan Zheleznyak
SOLOISTS INCLUDE:
KATY HILL
GARETH JOHN LUCY
St Endellion Easter Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Leader: Francesca Barritt
Chorus Masters: Frances Cooke and Oliver Tarney
CONDUCTORS/DIRECTOR:
DAVID WATKIN