Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Dr Peter Nardone conductor

Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano
James Rutherford baritone

Kindly supported by the Friends of Hereford Three Choirs Festival.
Sarah Connolly supported by an anonymous donor

Ireland London Overture
Delius Sea Drift
Elgar The Music Makers

Three Cathedral Choirs
Music for Awhile Orchestra
Geraint Bowen conductor

Natalie Clifton-Griffith soprano
Iestyn Davies alto
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Simon Wall tenor
Alex Ashworth baritone
Matthew Brook bass

Kindly supported by the Friends of Hereford Cathedral
Choristers kindly supported by Lee Bolton Monier Williams

Bach St John Passion

Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Adrian Partington conductor

Ailish Tynan soprano
Owen Gilhooly baritone

Kindly supported by Mr Bernard Day.
Owen Gilhooly kindly supported by Mrs Pamela White.

Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Propserous Voyage
Joseph Phibbs Commission by Philharmonia Orchestra/Anvil Arts
Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

Philharmonia Orchestra
Diego Matheuz conductor

Julian Lloyd Webber cello

Kindly supported by Simon & Liz Allen

Stravinsky The Firebird Suite
Delius Cello Concerto
Debussy La Mer
Ravel Bolér0

Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Geraint Bowen conductor

Elizabeth Cragg soprano
James Oxley tenor
Giles Underwood bass

Kindly supported by the Rowlands Trust in memory of Kevin Mason, former Trustee and Chairman of both the Hereford TCF and the TCF Association

Haydn Creation

£25/£20/£10

Royal Holloway College Chapel Choir
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Rupert Gough  conductor & organ

English Exiles

A programme by this award-winning choir of late renaissance masterpieces by Englishmen forced to work in exile in the Netherlands during the 17th century.

Peter Philips 1560–1628
Gaudent gaudebo in domino a 8
Ave Maria a 5

Richard Dering c 1580–1630
Duo seraphim a 2
Factum est silentium a 6

Peter Philips
Dolorosa Pavan and Galliard

John Bull 1563–1628
Fantasia (organ solo)
In the departure of the Lord a 4

Richard Dering
And the King was moved a 5

Peter Philips
Beati estis a 8

John Bull
The Bull Masque

Peter Philips
Ascendit deus a 5
Veni Sancte Spirito (organ solo)
Cecilia virgo a 8
Pavan and Galliard

Richard Dering
Ave virgo gloriosa a 5

John Bull
Prelude and Carol ‘Laet ons met herten reijne’ (organ solo)

Peter Philips
Hodie nobis de caelo a 8

£39/£34/£27/£18/£10

Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
Adrian Partington  conductor

Tai Murray  violin
Helen Jane Howells soprano
Frances Bourne mezzo soprano
James Geer tenor
Matthew Hargreaves bass

Supported by the Rowlands Trust, the Derek Butler Trust and the D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Beethoven Overture ‘Coriolan’
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op. 26
Beethoven Mass in C

£39/£34/£27/£18/£10

To be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast in September 2011

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers conductor

Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo (Hail, O Virgin)
Stravinsky  Ave Maria
Rachmaninov Izhe keruvimy (The Cherubic Hymn)
John Tavener Exhortation and Kohima
Eben Landscape with Horses (from Landscapes of Patmos)
Arvo Pärt The woman with the alabaster box
John Tavener Song for Athene
Rachmaninov Tebe poyem (We hymn thee)
Bruckner  Locus iste
Stravinsky Pater noster
Chesnokov Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda (Bless the Lord, O my soul)
Arvo Pärt De profundis
James MacMillan  A Child's Prayer
Eben Landscape with Elders (from Landscapes of Patmos)
Kalinnikov Lord now lettest thou (Nine otpushchayeshi)
James MacMillan A New Song
Arvo Pärt  Nunc Dimittis
Chesnokov We hymn thee (Tebe poem)
Arvo Pärt  O Weisheit (from Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen)
Holst  Nunc Dimittis

The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society (www.rvwsociety.com) invite you to a pre-concert Drinks Reception to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (conducted by the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams in Gloucester Cathedral)

Guest-of-honour - Michael Kennedy

Refreshments will be served

A late night concert of modern, lyrical jazz by 6 international jazz musicians who form  the Stroman-Jonsson International Project. From Hungary, Sweden, Ireland, the US and the UK this group have just released a new CD on Kopasetic Records and are fast becoming a hot ticket on the jazz scene.