Shakespeare Richard III

The festival Players Theatre Company present their second performance during festival week of this action-packed, fast-paced 'royal' story with plenty of pageantry & fanfare for the Jubilee year!

An all-male touring company of professional actors and musicians who perform open-air Shakespeare – from National Trust properties to London squares, village greens and Scottish castles – this company make Shakespeare's work accessible to more people.

The One Show
on BBC1

Edwards Elgar's "Nimrod" recorded at the Worcester Festival this year by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland will be broadcast on Thursday December 1st at 7pm.

Mark Bebbington piano

Programme to include:

Music by Ireland
David Briggs commission world premiere

"Bebbington’s revivals of British piano music are second to none; he could well be dubbed the concert pianists’ Richard Hickox. Bebbington has almost single-handedly demonstrated that 20th-century British piano scores have an exciting role to play in the concert hall and recording studio"
International Piano Magazine

I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth conductor

In memoriam Prince Henry

Thomas Tomkins  When David Heard
John Ward Weep forth your tears
John Milton  O woe is me for thee
Clément Janequin Le chant des oyseaulx

From The Full Monteverdi 
   
Sfogava con le stelle
Anima mia perdona
Longe da te cor mio
Piagn’e sospira

Psalms

Tomkins Woe is me
Gibbons  O clap your hands
Poulenc  Sept chansons 
Williams/Knapman Damnalot (The Faust Show)

Thomas Trotter organ

Kindly supported by Friends of the Herefordshire Museums & Arts

Handel Organ Concerto Op 4 no 2
Stanley Voluntary Op 6 no 6
Widor Allegro (1st movement) from Symphony no 5
Michael Nyman Fourths,Mostly
Elgar Vesper Voluntaries
Rossini William Tell Overture arr. E.H.Lemare

A recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s prestigious Instrumentalist Award in recognition of his particular achievements and as “one of the foremost exponents of the organist’s art”, this recital should not be missed!

Emma Johnson clarinet
John Lenehan piano

Mendelssohn Sonata in E flat major
Schumann Fantasiestücke op.73
John Ireland Fantasy Sonata
Poulenc Sonata
Stravinsky Three Pieces
Bliss Pastoral
Horovitz Majorcan Pieces

£5

Worcester Cathedral Junior Choir
Carol Green conductor
George Castle accompanist

Gloucester Cathedral Junior Choir
Russell Burton & Vicki Barnes Moffatt conductors

The junior choirs will perform, both individually and together, a programme of sacred and secular music including pieces by John Rutter, Richard Rodney Bennett, Bob Chilcott, Abba and The Beatles.

£6

To St Martin’s Church. The coach will depart from King Street.

£8

To Great Witley Church. Coaches will depart from King Street.

£15

Paolo Oreni

Liszt Fantasy and fugue on the Name BACH (syncretic version by Jean Guillou)
Liszt Symphonic Poems No 5 ‘Prometheus’ (transcription by Jean Guillou)
Liszt Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
Paolo Oreni Improvisation

An international concert organist and winner of several international organ competitions, Paolo performs more than 100 concerts per year. It is a real privilege to welcome him to the Three Choirs Festival for the first time.