Come into the Garden: A musical journey through nature at St James's Church, Harrogate on Saturday 5th July 2025

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Come into the Garden

A musical journey through nature

Add to my Calendar 05-07-2025 19:00 05-07-2025 21:00 36 Come into the Garden Join Vocalis for their summer concert ‘Come into the garden’ - a musical journey through nature. Conducted by James Savage-Hanford, the choir will perform madrigals, folk songs and part songs on the theme of birds, flora and fauna, nighttime and the stars in the beautiful setting of St James’ Church, Birstwith. The concert has been inspired by the Open Gardens Scheme and includes classic madrigals such as Gibbons ‘The Silver Swan’ and Morley ‘April is in my Mistress Face’. As our day in the garden continues we will sing Stanford’s magical ‘The Bluebird’, Finzi ‘I praise the tender flower’ and Rutter ‘As daisies pied’. As day turns to evening we will perform Esenvalds ‘Stars’ and ‘Northern Lights’ plus Gjeilo ‘Northern Lights’. Invariably there will be a shower sometime during the day allowing us to sing Somewhere over the rainbow! We invite you all to join Vocalis in our musical stroll and spend a day in a country garden with us! St James's Church, Harrogate DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St James's Church
Lackton Bank
Birstwith
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG3 2NG
England

Saturday 5th July 2025
7:00 PM

Programme

John Wilbye – Flora Gave Mee Fairest Flowers
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Eriks Esenvalds – Northern Lights
Eriks Esenvalds – Stars
Ernest Bristow Farrar – To Daffodils
Gerald Finzi – I praise the tender flower, Op.17 no.1
Frank Bridge – The Bee, H.110
Edward Elgar – Owls (an epitaph), Op.53 no.4
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Thomas Morley – April Is in My Mistress' Face
John Rutter – Birthday Madrigals

Performers

James Savage-Hanford – Conductor

Vocalis Chamber Choir

Programme Note

Join Vocalis for their summer concert ‘Come into the garden’ - a musical journey through nature. Conducted by James Savage-Hanford, the choir will perform madrigals, folk songs and part songs on the theme of birds, flora and fauna, nighttime and the stars in the beautiful setting of St James’ Church, Birstwith.

The concert has been inspired by the Open Gardens Scheme and includes classic madrigals such as Gibbons ‘The Silver Swan’ and Morley ‘April is in my Mistress Face’. As our day in the garden continues we will sing Stanford’s magical ‘The Bluebird’, Finzi ‘I praise the tender flower’ and Rutter ‘As daisies pied’. As day turns to evening we will perform Esenvalds ‘Stars’ and ‘Northern Lights’ plus Gjeilo ‘Northern Lights’. Invariably there will be a shower sometime during the day allowing us to sing Somewhere over the rainbow!

We invite you all to join Vocalis in our musical stroll and spend a day in a country garden with us!

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