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St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England
Programme
Frank Bridge – Suite for String Orchestra, H.93
Gerald Finzi – God is gone up, Op.27 no.2
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs
Howard Goodall – Eternal Light: A Requiem (2008)
Performers
Benjamin Goodson – Conductor
Robyn Allegra Parton – soprano
Gareth Brynmor John – baritone
Bath Camerata
Bristol Ensemble
Programme Note
To mark the centenary of the First World War Armistice, Bath Camerata and the Bristol Ensemble perform Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light: A Requiem, a poignant interweaving of poetry and prayer for the departed. This is paired with Frank Bridge’s elegiac Suite for Strings and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, a setting for baritone and choir of spiritual texts by seventeenth-century poet and priest George Herbert, culminating in the triumphant hymn of praise ‘Let all the world in every corner sing’. Baritone Gareth Brynmor John was the Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2013.
