Sense and Sensibility:: Jane Austen and the Romantic Idyll at Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames on Saturday 17th June 2017

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Sense and Sensibility:

Jane Austen and the Romantic Idyll

Add to my Calendar 17-06-2017 19:30 17-06-2017 21:30 36 Sense and Sensibility: Celebrating the life and times of Jane Austen with an evening of music from her era and pieces from her own music archive, recently digitised by Southampton University. Join Winchester’s Waynflete Singers in the inspirational space of Dorchester Abbey, together with acclaimed pianist Roger Owens for a special, summer evening concert in honour of this world-renowned Hampshire author. The Waynflete Singers will perform seven songs and airs from the Austen family music collection, which is now held at Southampton University. There will be readings from Jane’s own works throughout the evening given by Sheila Forbes, and Roger Owens will play Chopin’s Scherzo in C sharp minor and Mozart’s Rondo in D,   works which would have been played in the salons of Europe at the height of the Romantic era. Continuing in the Romantic vein in the second half of the concert, the Waynflete Singers  will also perform Elgar’s Songs from the Bavarian Highlands and Moeran’s sumptuous Songs of Springtime. The evening will be under the direction of Winchester Cathedral’s Director of Music, Andrew Lumsden. “Without music, life would be a blank to me” – Jane Austen, Emma. Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Dorchester Abbey
High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England

Saturday 17th June 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

John Wall Callcott – Songs and Airs (from the Jane Austen family music collection)
Edward Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, Op.27
Ernest John Moeran – Songs of Springtime
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor, Op.39
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Rondo in D major, K.485

Performers

Roger Owens – piano

Waynflete Singers

Programme Note

Celebrating the life and times of Jane Austen with an evening of music from her era and pieces from her own music archive, recently digitised by Southampton University.

Join Winchester’s Waynflete Singers in the inspirational space of Dorchester Abbey, together with acclaimed pianist Roger Owens for a special, summer evening concert in honour of this world-renowned Hampshire author.

The Waynflete Singers will perform seven songs and airs from the Austen family music collection, which is now held at Southampton University. There will be readings from Jane’s own works throughout the evening given by Sheila Forbes, and Roger Owens will play Chopin’s Scherzo in C sharp minor and Mozart’s Rondo in D, works which would have been played in the salons of Europe at the height of the Romantic era.

Continuing in the Romantic vein in the second half of the concert, the Waynflete Singers will also perform Elgar’s Songs from the Bavarian Highlands and Moeran’s sumptuous Songs of Springtime.

The evening will be under the direction of Winchester Cathedral’s Director of Music, Andrew Lumsden.

“Without music, life would be a blank to me” – Jane Austen, Emma.

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