The Festival Players

The Festival Players Theatre Company brings you the Bard’s great comedy of riddles, romance and revenge, The Merchant of Venice, all in the open air.

A lecture-recital by Peter Medhurst on the subject of ‘English Song in Elgar's Time’. This event is open to all.

This lunch, hosted by the Elgar Society,  is open to all and a wonderful opportunity to mingle and make new friends. 

The last in the series of four recitals by young organists selected by the Royal College of Organists following their final examinations in 2008.

Supported by Pat Hugill in memory of her late husband.

Supported by the Ernest Cook Trust and Baron Davenport's Charity
Orchestra of the Swan
David Curtis conductor

A programme for strings from Handel to McCabe stopping at Finzi and Vaughan Williams on the way!

Three Cathedral Choirs
Adrian Partington & Adrian Lucas conductors

Sanders Responses
Day Evening Service in B flat
Bairstow Blessed city, heavenly Salem
Widor Allegro vivace (Symphonie V)

Supported by the Friends of Hereford Cathedral

Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Geraint Bowen conductor

Mendelssohn himself conducted the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham in 1846. It was such a success that no fewer than four choruses and four arias were encored. He wrote ‘no work of mine went so admirably the first time of execution, or was received with such enthusiasm by both the musicians and the audience.’