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Northern Chords Festival Orchestra, with Ben Johnson (tenor) and Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)
London Chamber Music Society Sunday Series
Add to my Calendar 20-03-2022 18:30 20-03-2022 20:30 36 Northern Chords Festival Orchestra, with Ben Johnson (tenor) and Jonathan Bloxham (conductor) The strings of the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra present a concert of music that is either British or has strong British links. They begin with Purcell’s ‘Chacony’, in Britten’s famous arrangement, Elgar’s beautiful Serenade, and the Andante from Coleridge-Taylor’s Novelletten. Mendelssohn was a frequent visitor to Britain, it became a second home – his String Symphony No.7 is an early work from the 1820s. To end, the ensemble is joined by tenor Ben Johnson in Finzi’s masterful cantata Dies Natalis, to words by seventeenth-century English poet Thomas Traherne. Kings Place, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England
Programme
Henry Purcell – Chacony in G minor, Z.730
Gerald Finzi – Dies Natalis, Op.8
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – 4 Novelletten for String Orchestra, Op.52
Felix Mendelssohn – String Symphony no.7 in D minor, MWV N 7
Edward Elgar – Serenade for String Orchestra in E Minor, Op.20
Performers
Ben Johnson – tenor
Jonathan Bloxham – Conductor
Northern Chords Festival Orchestra
Programme Note
The strings of the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra present a concert of music that is either British or has strong British links. They begin with Purcell’s ‘Chacony’, in Britten’s famous arrangement, Elgar’s beautiful Serenade, and the Andante from Coleridge-Taylor’s Novelletten. Mendelssohn was a frequent visitor to Britain, it became a second home – his String Symphony No.7 is an early work from the 1820s. To end, the ensemble is joined by tenor Ben Johnson in Finzi’s masterful cantata Dies Natalis, to words by seventeenth-century English poet Thomas Traherne.
