A Celebration of British Song: World Premiere Song-Cycle by Ian Venables: Performed by Mark Wilde and David Owen Norris at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester on Sunday 31st October 2021

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A Celebration of British Song: World Premiere Song-Cycle by Ian Venables

Performed by Mark Wilde and David Owen Norris

Part of the Elgar Festival 2021

Add to my Calendar 31-10-2021 11:00 31-10-2021 13:00 36 A Celebration of British Song: World Premiere Song-Cycle by Ian Venables Embodying the ethos ‘Elgar for Everyone’, the Elgar Festival engages with those of all ages and backgrounds in music and legacy at a number of integral venues of both historic interest and personal significance to the composer, including Worcester Cathedral and the Guildhall. Committed to increasing the presence of music by living composers, a song recital ‘From Elgar to Venables’ will feature tenor Mark Wilde and pianist David Owen Norris in Huntingdon Hall when they perform the premiere of a new song cycle by Worcester composer Ian Venables entitled ‘The Last Invocation’, based on poems by Walt Whitman. Described by Musical Opinion as “…Britain’s greatest living composer of art songs…”, Venables shares the programme with Elgar and another Worcestershire composer of the Victorian era, Walter Battisson Haynes. Of all the great British composers, there can be few places that have as strong a musical resonance as Elgar’s Worcestershire; from the spectacular walking country of the Malvern Hills, the Victorian splendour of the spa town of Malvern and its Abbey, the majestic Cathedral of the county town itself, and the nostalgia of a visit to the composer’s idyllic country cottage birthplace. The Festival provides the perfect stimulus to explore these iconic locations, and to hear Elgar’s music in situ; often an overwhelming experience for audience and performers alike. Huntingdon Hall, Worcester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Huntingdon Hall
Crowngate
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 3LD
England

Sunday 31st October 2021
11:00 AM

Programme

Battison Haynes – Elizabethan Lyrics (Set 1)
Ian Venables – The Last Invocation
Edward Elgar – Is She Not Passing Fair?
Edward Elgar – The Poet's Life

Performers

Mark Wilde – Tenor
David Owen Norris – piano

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Programme Note

Embodying the ethos ‘Elgar for Everyone’, the Elgar Festival engages with those of all ages and backgrounds in music and legacy at a number of integral venues of both historic interest and personal significance to the composer, including Worcester Cathedral and the Guildhall.

Committed to increasing the presence of music by living composers, a song recital ‘From Elgar to Venables’ will feature tenor Mark Wilde and pianist David Owen Norris in Huntingdon Hall when they perform the premiere of a new song cycle by Worcester composer Ian Venables entitled ‘The Last Invocation’, based on poems by Walt Whitman. Described by Musical Opinion as “…Britain’s greatest living composer of art songs…”, Venables shares the programme with Elgar and another Worcestershire composer of the Victorian era, Walter Battisson Haynes.

Of all the great British composers, there can be few places that have as strong a musical resonance as Elgar’s Worcestershire; from the spectacular walking country of the Malvern Hills, the Victorian splendour of the spa town of Malvern and its Abbey, the majestic Cathedral of the county town itself, and the nostalgia of a visit to the composer’s idyllic country cottage birthplace. The Festival provides the perfect stimulus to explore these iconic locations, and to hear Elgar’s music in situ; often an overwhelming experience for audience and performers alike.

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