ELGAR SOCIETY TALK (EVENT 16) An exploration of aspects of the interpretation of Elgar’s music led by Adrian Partington conductor of the BBC National Chorus of Wales), with Sîan Winstanley (soprano), and Lydia Whittaker (violin). Choral works, songs, piano music and the Violin Sonata will be considered. |
THE MELLSTOCK BAND (EVENT 17) Times and Seasons – the heritage of English folk music in church and tavern This costumed performance with authentic instruments draws on the traditions that inspired Ralph Vaughan Williams and Thomas Hardy. It will include traditional music used by Vaughan Williams in the English Hymnal, the Oxford Book of Carols and elsewhere, and music from the west gallery tradition suppressed by the Anglican Church. |
CHILDREN’S ORGAN PROM (EVENT 18) Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf |
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BRODSKY QUARTET (EVENT 19) Mozart ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, Shostakovich Quartet No 3, Schumann Quartet in A The Brodsky Quartet perform Mozart’s daring ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, Shostakovich’s profound Third Quartet and Schumann’s impassioned Quartet in A, which he dedicated to Mendelssohn. |
Hereford to Leominster
WORKSHOP: THE MELLSTOCKBAND (EVENT 21)
14:30 - St John’s Methodist Church
West Gallery Music
The songs and tunes of country church bands and choirs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, unforgettably portrayed by Thomas Hardy in Under The Greenwood Tree, form one of the great lost heritages of English music. Singers and musicians will need a basic knowledge of written music. The intention is to do as the village bands did, and welcome whatever suitable instruments are available, whether in modern or historical forms.
CHORAL EVENSONG
17:30 - Hereford Cathedral
With Three Cathedral Choirs
Radcliffe Responses, Howells Collegium Regale, Howells Like as the hart Vierne Allegro
maëstoso (Symphonie III)
  CATHEDRAL CONCERT (EVENT 22) With the Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri This concert is a rare opportunity to hear Schumann’s great choral masterpiece. Although he is not primarily associated today with choral music, Schumann described Das Paradies und die Peri as being his ‘most important work in every sense of the word’. Based on Persian folklore, it tells of the Peri, who is descended from the union of a fallen angel and a mortal, and thereby excluded from paradise. She attempts to impress the guardians of the heavenly gates with the blood of a young warrior and the sighs of an expiring maiden, but only gains admission to paradise with her third offering, the tears of a repentant sinner. The work explores the universal themes of heroism, love and redemption. Richard Hickox conductor, Joan Rodgers soprano, Rachel Nicholls soprano, Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo soprano, James Gilchrist tenor, Roderick Williams baritone, Alan Ewing bass. |
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PLUGGED AND UNPLUGGED (EVENT 23) The official harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales uses acoustic and electric harps in an eclectic range of works from Grandjany, Dussek and Handel to Scott Joplin and Dave Brubeck
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