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Details
St Barnabas Church
Sea Road
Bexhill-on-Sea
East Sussex
TN40 1JG
England
Programme
Ralph Vaughan-Williams – Toward the Unknown Region
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Bluebird
Edward Elgar – Chanson de Matin, Op.15 no.2
Edward Elgar – The Shower, Op.71 no.1
Ralph Vaughan-Williams – Songs of Travel: 'The Vagabond' (arr. Jim Clements)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams – Songs of Travel: Let Beauty Awake
Ralph Vaughan-Williams – Songs of Travel: The Roadside Fire
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
~ Interval ~
Gustav Holst – Short Festival Te Deum, H.145
Edward Elgar – Song of Liberty (arr. Op.39 no.4)
Edward Elgar – Chanson de Nuit, Op.15 no.1
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes
Charles Villiers Stanford – Songs of the Sea, Op.91
Performers
Kenneth Roberts – Conductor
Peter Grevatt – baritone
Bexhill Choral Society
Sussex Concert Orchestra
Programme Note
This concert features an exciting range of classic British music. Parry’s glorious anthem ‘I was Glad’ will be familiar from the Coronation and other royal events, as will the music of Elgar’s ‘Song of Liberty’, an arrangement of Pomp & Circumstance March No. 4. Vaughan Williams’ less well-known ‘Toward the Unknown Region’, his first major choral piece, brilliantly expresses poet Walt Whitman’s inspirational and humanistic text with music that starts quietly and simply but builds through waves of excitement to an exultant climax. We celebrate the 150th anniversary of Holst’s birth with his beautiful ‘Short Festival Te Deum’, and the centenary of Stanford’s death with his dramatic and atmospheric ‘Songs of the Sea’ and ‘The Bluebird’. Three of Vaughan Williams’ ‘Songs of Travel’ for baritone solo, Elgar’s ‘The Shower’, and Sullivan’s lovely and tranquil ‘The Long Day Closes’ complete a rich and varied programme.
Bexhill Choral Society is extremely grateful to the Vaughan Williams Foundation for a grant which helped to make this concert possible
