Sense of the Divine: Saxultate! at St George's Bristol, Bristol on Saturday 8th February 2020

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Sense of the Divine: Saxultate!

Add to my Calendar 08-02-2020 19:30 08-02-2020 21:30 36 Sense of the Divine: Saxultate! Exultate Singers and the sensational saxophonist Amy Dickson memorably performed together for the first time at St George’s first ever mixtape concert, an event which sowed the seeds for this feature-length collaboration. Amy Dickson is an extraordinary and spellbinding performer, described by Gramophone as “a player with a difference who has an individual and unusual tone, luscious, silky-smooth, sultry and voluptuous by turns; her phrasing is beautifully finished, her control of dynamic infinitely subtle.” She is a Classic Brit award winner, Grammy™-nominated, who recently attained the coveted No. 1 spot in the UK Classical Album Charts. This concert premieres a feast of mesmerising and entertaining works for choir and saxophone by some of the UK’s leading composers in a wide variety of styles from traditional melodies to the jazz-inspired Exultate by Roderick Williams, together with a new arrangement of Eric Whitacre’s A Girl and a Boy, specially made for the concert. St George's Bristol, Bristol DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England

Saturday 8th February 2020
7:30 PM

Programme

Roderick Williams – Exultate!
Traditional Irish – She Moved Through the Fair (arr. Rob Wiffin)
Percy Grainger – British Folk-Music Settings: 7, Brigg Fair
Kim Andre Arnesen – Making or breaking
Gabriel Jackson – Vox clara ecce intonat
Eric Whitacre – A boy and a girl
Richard Barnard – Out in the dark
Toby Young – Greek Love Songs vol. 2

Performers

Amy Dickson – Saxophone
David Ogden – Conductor

Exultate Singers

Programme Note

Exultate Singers and the sensational saxophonist Amy Dickson memorably performed together for the first time at St George’s first ever mixtape concert, an event which sowed the seeds for this feature-length collaboration.

Amy Dickson is an extraordinary and spellbinding performer, described by Gramophone as “a player with a difference who has an individual and unusual tone, luscious, silky-smooth, sultry and voluptuous by turns; her phrasing is beautifully finished, her control of dynamic infinitely subtle.” She is a Classic Brit award winner, Grammy™-nominated, who recently attained the coveted No. 1 spot in the UK Classical Album Charts.

This concert premieres a feast of mesmerising and entertaining works for choir and saxophone by some of the UK’s leading composers in a wide variety of styles from traditional melodies to the jazz-inspired Exultate by Roderick Williams, together with a new arrangement of Eric Whitacre’s A Girl and a Boy, specially made for the concert.

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