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Come and Sing Tippett Five Spirituals
Tom Appleton workshop leader and conductor Explore and sing Michael Tippett's Five Spirituals with the Come and Sing Company and a team of professional soloists. The five spirituals form part of Tippett’s composition A Child of Our Time – an oratorio composed between 1939 and 1941. Immediately before he began the composition, Tippett was undergoing psychotherapy in order to come to terms with his sexuality and to address his self-worth as an artist. The work was also inspired by external events…
Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett
Gramophone’s review of the first full length biography of Tippett’s life praises Oliver Soden as he ‘brings Tippett to living, breathing life as if he has justwalked into the room’. Join him at the Chiltern Arts Festival Choral Day as he invites us into Tippett’s world and discusses A Child of Our Time, the Five Spirituals and Tippett himself – interspersed with musical performances from the Chiltern Arts Come and Sing Choir under direction of the Come and Sing Company. Please note:…
The Marian Consort: Singing in Secret
William Byrd Miserere mei Deus, Venite exultemus Domino, Mass for All Saints Nicholas Strogers Non me vincat, Deus meus Derrick Gerarde Sive vigilem Peter Phillips Salve Regina Martin Peerson Laboravi in Gemitu Meo This programme draws on the rich corpus of music written by William Byrd, England’s greatest Renaissance composer. A devout Catholic, Byrd lived the life of an Elizabethan recusant and he provided a comprehensive compendium of music for the Catholic mass, which in the early seventeenth century was still…
Youth Music and Arts Day
A day of interactive musical activities for children of all ages, culminating in a showcase from local young musicians. 4pm Local Youth Music and Performing Arts Showcase Performances from (full programme to be announced): Amersham Music Centre Seniors and Juniors Chiltern Music Academy Mary Hare School Performing Arts Department Tring School Music Department Chiltern Arts Massed Youth Choir led by the Marian Consort Thomas Tallis God Grant we Grace Tomás Luis de Victoria Salve Regina Judith Weir My Guardian Angel…
The Phoenix Piano Trio: Into the Silence
Gabriel Fauré Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120 Cheryl Frances-Hoade The Forgiveness Machine – Interval — Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Major, Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Jonathan Stone violin Christian Elliot cello Sholto Kynoch piano Piano trios from two composers who lost their hearing and yet continued to compose some of their greatest music sit side by side here, partnered by Cheryl Frances-Hoade’s The Forgiveness Machine — written in response to Beethoven’s famous ‘Archduke’ piano trio. In the beautiful setting of…
Ensemble Hesperi: Take Note Ensemble
The Temple of Apollo: Jacobite Secrets of London James Oswald The Poppy and The Narcissus from 'Spring', Airs for the Seasons Giuseppe Sammartini Sonata VI from 12 Trio Sonatas James Oswald The Caledonian Pocket Companion John Reid Solo II (A Second Sett of Six Solos) Francesco Geminiani The Last time I came o’er the moor from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick Earl of Kellie Trio Sonata in C James Oswald The Pheasant’s Eye –The Tulip from 'Spring' /…
The Piccadilly Revellers: Concert, Cabaret and Dinner
Michael Law cabaret singer Louise Cookman vocals Martin Wheatley multi-instrumentalist Members of the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra 7pm Concert 8pm Dinner Step back in time to the high society events of the ‘20s and ‘30s and join us at the The Gatsby — the perfect setting for an evening of some of the greatest songs of the era, from Gershwin and Cole Porter to Noel Coward, including Mad About The Boy, Miss Otis Regrets, Summertime, and songs recorded by Billie Holiday. The…
Dame Evelyn Glennie in conversation with Katy Hamilton
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. Please contact us to join the waiting list for tickets at admin@chilternarts.com Dame Evelyn Glennie is the first person in history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, performing worldwide with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. The Grammy award-winning percussionist, profoundly deaf from the age of 12 and who has honed her awareness of sound to such a degree that she describes her body as a ‘resonating chamber’,…
Trio HLK and Dame Evelyn Glennie: Extra Sensory Perception
This unique collaboration concert sees pioneering Scottish ensemble Trio HLK team up with the world’s premier solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie. HLK’s music heavily deconstructs and reconstructs jazz standards, creating intricate new pieces with complex frameworks for improvisation. Their pieces are strewn with rhythmic and harmonic tricks, and their performances deliver an explosive interactive tour de force that distorts the meeting point of the composed and the improvised. The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk: Dame Evelyn Glennie…
Matthew Wadsworth Pre-Concert Talk
Matthew Wadsworth talks of how his musical journey began with a guitar under the Christmas tree at the age of six and how he grew into being the first musician to develop a system of braille tablature for lute when he fell in love with the instrument whilst studying at Chetham’s. - Step-free access - Toilets available - Car Park available outside the church - Please advise us if disabled parking is required
Candlelit Lute: Matthew Wadsworth, featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie
Including music from Dowland, Philip Rosseter and Robert Johnson, Matthew Wadsworth offers a haven from the hustle and bustle of everyday life with an intimate solo programme. He is joined by Dame Evelyn Glennie as the two musicians present the world premiere of a new Chiltern Arts commission for theorbo and marimba by Stephen Goss – the same composer who worked with Matthew to write the first ever Theorbo Concerto. The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk. Tickets…
Magnard Wind Ensemble: Take Note Ensemble
Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. Shiner) Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major Robert Schumann (arr. Shiner) Selections from Kinderszenen Paul Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik Amy Beach Pastorale György Ligety Six Bagatelles William Byrd (arr. McDermid) Vigilate from Cantiones Sacrae 1589 The outstanding Magnard Ensemble presents a programme that explores overcoming adversity in a number of ways, ranging from political unrest in Soviet Russia, Elizabethan England and turbulent wartime Europe to the achievements of Amy Beach: the first American woman to compose, publish and…
Danny Driver: Beethoven and the loss of vital senses
Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin (selections) Gabriela Lena Frank Noctorno Nazqueño Joaquín Rodrigo Suite for Piano – Interval – Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata Op 106 in B flat (‘Hammerklavier’) Danny Driver piano Focusing on composers who have suffered the loss of a vital sense – be it vision or hearing – Danny Driver creates a programme of music created in the face of adversity, culminating with Beethoven’s magnificent ‘Hammerklavier’ - Step-free access - Toilets available behind the village hall across…
Salomé String Quartet: Take Note Ensemble
Beethoven and the Russian connection Alexander Borodin ‘Nocturne’ from String Quartet No. 2 Dimitri Shostakovich Two pieces for String Quartet Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, (‘Razumovsky’), No. 3, (“Eroica”) Beethoven wrote the three Razumovsky string quartets in 1806 as the result of a commission by the Russian Ambassador in Vienna. The third quartet in this set is partnered here with music from two Russian composers – Shostakovich and Borodin. Take Note is the…
City of London Sinfonia: Mozart and Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven Septet in Eb Major, Op. 20 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in Bb Major ‘Gran Partita’ Written between 1799 and 1800, the Septet marked the end of Beethoven’s first major output of chamber music. Its style has been said to imitate the lighter side of Mozart’s writing; and here we hear it alongside Mozart’s most technically complex and ambitious wind serenade: the Gran Partita. The City of London Sinfonia, returning to Chiltern Arts for the third year running,…
Vivaldi Four Seasons Reimagined: Fenella Humphreys & Friends
Virtuoso violinist Fenella Humphreys presents a reworking of Vivaldi's Four Seasons for an incredible chamber ensemble of violin, accordion, double bass and percussion, bringing a whole new world of diverse and brilliant sounds to Vivaldi’s masterpiece.
The four concertos are performed together with three new commissions for the ensemble from Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Adrian Sutton and Bethan Morgan-Williams.
Consone String Quartet
BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone String Quartet, perform a gorgeous programme of Schubert, Haydn and Beethoven as part of the Chiltern Arts Autumn Weekend.
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