What’s on this season!
AN
EVENING OF ENGLISH CLASSICAL MUSIC
Friday 1st November 2024
Doors Open: 6.00 pm
Concert start: 6.30 pm
Northleach Church, Northleach, GL54 3HZ
Featuring
Kate Semmens (Soprano)
Rory Carver (Tenor)
The Devine Musick, (Leader Caroline Balding)
Steven Devine (Music Director and Harpsichord)
And featuring the Northleach Church Choir
PROGRAMME
Symphony No. 5 in D major, William Boyce
The Ploughboy, William Shield
Shall Strangers Weep from Teraminta, Thomas Arne
As Steels the Morn, G F Handel
Harpsichord Concerto No 5 in G minor, Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak, William Boyce
A Grand Finale for the Cotswolds, G F Handel
INTERVAL
Concerto No. 1 in A Major, John Hebden
Sequence from “Alfred”, Thomas Arne
March
Genius of Brittania’s Isle (Alfred)
Sweet Valley Say (Eltruda)
From the dawn of Early morning (Alfred)
Peace Thou Fairest Child (Eltruda)
The Storms Awhile (Alfred)
Guardian Angels O Descend (Eltruda)
Grand Chorus (Tutti)
Once again, the fabulous post-concert
DINNER AT THE WHEATSHEAF, NORTHLEACH
Enjoying a dinner at the Wheatsheaf following the concert will be an option. Please book directly with the Wheatsheaf for a table following the evening concert:
The Cotswold Festival of Music will expand this autumn to include a Saturday early afternoon “teatime classics” concert with tea and cake.
This programme celebrates the work of English composers from the 18th century who wrote for London’s Pleasure Gardens, including Thomas Arne and William Boyce. The audience at the Pleasure Gardens needed music that was easily accessible to encourage them to stay and listen and also in the hope that they might purchase the printed music afterward. Many texts explore simple pastoral scenes where shepherds and shepherdesses fall in and out of love, sometimes with disastrous effect…
Conclude your cultural journey of this year's Cotswold Festival of Music with an intimate one-hour concert featuring pastoral songs that celebrate the essence of English Arcadia, all set in the Heart of the Cotswolds. All in the beautifully acoustic Church of St Peter and St Paul, Northleach, GL54 3HZ
TEATIME CLASSICS CONCERT
Saturday 2nd November 2024
Doors Open: 1.30 pm
Concert start: 2.00 pm
Northleach Church, Northleach, GL54 3HL
Featuring
Kate Semmens (Soprano)
Steven Devine (Music Director and Harpsichord)
PROGRAMME
William Boyce (1711-1779), On thy banks gentle Stour
William Boyce (1711-1779), Fair Sylvia
G F Handel, Harmonious Blacksmith
G F Handel, O Sleep (from Semele)
Lampe (1703-1751), The Modest Concealment
James Hook (1746-1827), Andantino Pastorale from Sonatina No 12 in E maj
William Boyce (1711-1779), As Thyrsis Reclin’d
Thomas Arne (1710-1778), The Fond Appeal
J C Bach, Sonata in D major Op. 5 No.2
Maurice Green (1696-1755), Allegro in A Minor
John Weldon (1676-1736), The Wakeful Nightingale
Maurice Green, Vivace from Sonata in B flat
Maurice Green, Orpheus with his Lute
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