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Thursday 1 June at 19:30 – Elgar’s Arthur Suite and Ian Venables Requiem

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Thursday 1 June  at 19:30

Great Malvern Priory
Church St, Malvern WR14 2AY

Elgar’s Arthur Suite

English Symphony Orchestra

Kenneth Woods and Stephen Shellard – Conductors

Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir

Saint Cecilia Singers

Jonathan Hope – Organ

 

William Grant Still – Summerland 3’

Edward Elgar – Mina 5’

Michael Berkeley – Visions of Piers Plowman 12’

Elgar – Selections from his music for Arthur 20’

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Ian Venables – Requiem 40’

 

A programme pairing the music of Worcester’s greatest living composer with that of Worcester’s greatest composer. Ian Venables’ beautiful Requiem has already become a modern classic, embraced by audiences and choirs across the UK, in its original form for organ and choir. Hear it here in a powerful new version for choir and orchestra. Elgar’s touching and whimsical Mina is something of a mini-Requiem, written by Elgar in memory of his beloved dog. Visions of Piers Plowman is Michael Berkeley’s musical response to the epic poem drawn from the very Malvern Hills by William Langland.

 

This concert will be recorded.

TICKETS £20