£33/£29/£23/£15/£8

To be recorded by BBC Radio Scotland

National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
Christoph Mueller  conductor

Jane Irwin  soprano

Ravel Rapsodie espangole
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
James MacMillan Symphony No 3

We welcome the flagship orchestra of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland to the festival for the first time. Founded in 1979, it is a symphony orchestra for musicians aged between 12 and 21 of the highest calibre. Past members include Dame Evelyn Glennie, Colin Currie, Garry Walker, Nicola Benedetti and Karen Geoghegan.

£6

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

£22.50

Dame Janet Baker speaker
Crispian Steele-Perkins speaker

This lunch is open to Three Choirs Festival Society members only.

If you wish to join the Society, please look at our Society page for information on how to do so: http://3choirs.org/about/festival-society.html

£5

Matthew Jorysz

The third in a series of four recitals given by prize-winning young players selected by the Royal College of Organists.

Hot and cold drinks and snacks will be available in the church before and after this concert.  

£5

To the Swan Theatre. Coaches will depart from King Street.

£13.50

John Horton Sir Edward Elgar
Julie Hobbs Lady Alice Elgar 
Gabrielle Bullock Sarah Allen 
Liz Grand Lady Alice Stuart  

Produced and directed by Chris Jaeger

This stunning play examines the tensions in Edward Elgar’s marriage. As his relationship with Alice worsens, his contempt and condescension leads to deeper questions of his fidelity as the play moves to its emotionally shattering climax. 

£19/£15

William Dazeley baritone
Iain Burnside piano

Kindly supported by the RVW Trust

Finzi (from Earth and Air and Rain)   
Summer Schemes
When I set out for Lyonesse
Waiting Both
To Lizbie Browne
The Clock of the Years
Proud Songsters

Barber Three Songs Op. 10                                    
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army

Percy Grainger                                
British Waterside
Six dukes went a-fishin’
The pretty maid milkinʼ her cow
Hard-hearted Barb’ra Ellen

Somervell (From A Shropshire Lad)     
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry now
In Summer-time on Bredon
The Street sounds to the Soldiersʼ tread
On the idle hill of Summer
Into my Heart an Air that kills

Barber Three Songs Op. 45                                   
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose
A Green Lowland of Pianos
O Boundless, Boundless Evening

Daryl Runswick          Marineland
Celius Dougherty       The Bird and the Beast
Kit and the Widow     Swansong
Richard Peirson          Chicken
                                             The Little Dogʼs Day
Charles Ives                   Slow March

Hereford Cathedral Choir
Geraint Bowen conductor
Peter Dyke organ

Tallis In manus tuas
Smith Responses
Francis Jackson Evening Service in G
Gibbons O clap your hands together

£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

£10

Chapter Eight

Circle of life Elton John arr. Fiona Clifton
Dry bones Spiritual, arr. Phyllis Tate
Motherless child Spiritual, arr. Carl Davis
Monday’s child John Rutter
Three little maids from school Gilbert & Sullivan
Another day Paul McCartney arr. Fiona Clifton
Now is the month of Maying Thomas Morley
Let’s do it Cole Porter
The kindly voice of Mother Nature Mozart, transcribed Fiona Clifton
This marriage Eric Whitacre
The goslings Frederick Bridge
When I’m 64 Lennon & McCartney
Go gently Jim Clements
Rhythm of life Cy Coleman