Breakfast with Bach

Join Matthew Brook, James Oxley and Roderick Williams in a discussion of the St Matthew Passion over coffee and croissants. Approaches to the interpretation of the characters of the Evangelist, Christ and Pilate have changed markedly over time and vary considerably from singer to singer. This is a unique opportunity to hear these three world-renowned Bach singers in conversation.

Today, 9.30am, Left Bank, Hereford.

 

Requiem for 500 Years

Dust and Ashes: Requiem for 500 Years

Programme to include: Brumel Missa pro Defunctis Plainchant sequences.

Dufay Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae.

Gabriel Jackson On the bridge over the narrow river.

Ockeghem Mort, tu as navre ton dart Orlando Consort.

The Orlando Consort’s exploration of the Requiem Mass juxtaposes acknowledged masterpieces of medieval times with the works of living composers who have applied medieval techniques in their music. The music is complemented by readings from sources including early English documents, John Donne, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Helen Thomas (the widow of poet Edward Thomas, killed in the First World War) and modern war correspondents Feargal Keane and Daniel Counihan.

Supported by The Very Reverend Michael Tavinor.

Today, 11am, St Francis Xavier Church.

 

Agincourt

Professor Andrew Kirkman speaker.

The first of our anniversary talks looks at Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt, in October 1415. Andrew Kirkman, Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Binchois Consort, will draw on his own specialist research to link the circumstances of the battle to the music the English and Continental armies of the time would have known.

Today, 11.15am, Left Bank, Hereford.

 

Three Choirs Festival Society Lunch

This annual event is open to Three Choirs Festival Society members only.

Today, 12.30pm, Left Bank, Hereford.

 

RCO Young Performers Recital 3

Donal McCann - organ The final organ recital of our young artists lunchtime concert series features a third soloist chosen by the Royal College of Organists.

Supported by Father Michael Thomas.

Today, 12.45pm, Holy Trinity Church.

 

Chichester and Chilcott

Bob Chilcott Requiem

Bernstein Chichester Psalms

Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir

Christopher Allsop - organ

Peter Nardone - conductor

Ahead of Wednesday’s first broadcast performance by the Three Cathedral Choirs of Bob Chilcott’s new evening service, our TCF Youth Choir performs his beautiful Requiem published in 2010. This is paired with the famous setting of Hebrew psalm texts commissioned in 1965 for a festival in Chichester Cathedral by its then Dean, The Very Revd Walter Hussey.

Supported by The Perry Family Charitable Trust

Today, 2.30pm, Hereford Cathedral.

 

Arthur Bliss Society Tea and Talk

Andrew Burn, Chairman of The Bliss Trust, gives a talk entitled ‘Now, trumpeter, for thy close: an introduction to Bliss’s Morning Heroes’.

Supported by The Bliss Trust.

Today, 4pm, Left Bank, Hereford.

 

Choral Evensong

Ayleward Responses

Greene Evening Service in C

Purcell O Lord God of Hosts

Purcell Voluntary for Double Organ

Three Cathedral Choirs

Jonathan Hope - organ

Adrian Partington – conductor

Today, 5.30pm, Hereford Cathedral.

 

Three Choirs Festival Society AGM

Today, 6.30pm, Left Bank.

 

Morning Heroes

Sibelius Symphony No 5

Bliss Morning Heroes

Samuel West - narrator

Three Choirs Festival Chorus

Philharmonia Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis - conductor

This choral symphony by Arthur Bliss, dedicated ‘to the Memory of my brother Francis Kennard Bliss and all other Comrades killed in battle’, continues our First World War commemoration begun with last year’s premiere of Torsten Rasch’s A Foreign Field. Premiered at the Norwich Festival in 1930, it sets texts from Homer’s Iliad and poems by Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Li Tai Po and Robert Nichols; the composer said that writing it helped to exorcise the nightmare memories of his own wartime experiences.

Supported by The Bliss Trust and The Music Reprieval Trust.

Samuel West supported by Gabbs Solicitors.

Sir Andrew Davis supported by Pamela White.

Today, 7.45pm, Hereford Cathedral.

 

Golden Apples of the Sun

Juice

The three female singers of Juice are at the forefront of the UK’s experimental/classical scene, performing new vocal music which draws on a wide variety of genres including jazz, folk, improvisation and theatre. Their concert programmes are fluid and full of surprises; ‘Golden Apples of the Sun’ may contain works by Gabriel Jackson, Tarik O’Regan, Cecilia McDowall or James MacMillan – or it may not!

Today, 10.15pm, All Saints Church.

 

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