Music for a Summer's Evening at St Martin of Tours Church, Epsom on Saturday 24th June 2023

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Music for a Summer's Evening

Part of the Epsom Chamber Choir 2022 - 2023 Season

Add to my Calendar 24-06-2023 19:30 24-06-2023 21:30 36 Music for a Summer's Evening EPSOM CHAMBER CHOIR BRINGS YOU MUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING Summer is finally in sight and Epsom Chamber Choir’s concert on 24th June is inspired by the thought of those balmy summer evenings with a scent of flowers wafting past. Daffodils, lilies, roses and cowslips all feature in the music performed by the choir under the direction of their conductor Mark Biggins. Joining them for this performance, will be international prize-winning harpist Mared Pugh-Evans who will accompany them in the vibrant Choral Dances from Britten’s Gloriana. She will be joined by clarinettist Zoë Humphries to play Paul Reade’s Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite which many will recognise as the theme tune from the 1980s Victorian Kitchen Garden television series. Their programme begins with the mediaeval ‘Sumer is icumen in’, one of the oldest songs written in English. It continues with flower and dance-themed music by Monteverdi, Jonathan Dove, Chilcott, Whitacre, Fanny Hensel and others. Epsom Chamber Choir is one of Surrey’s leading chamber choirs, performing regularly at St Martin’s Church, Epsom where the excellent acoustics make the most of the choir’s superb sound. St Martin of Tours Church, Epsom DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Martin of Tours Church
Church Street
Epsom
Surrey
KT17 4PX
England

Saturday 24th June 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Anonymous – Sumer is icumen in
Claudio Monteverdi – O primavera, gioventú dell’anno, SV 68
John Bawden – Ye Banks and Braes
John Bawden – The Lark in the Clear Air
Jonathan Dove – Wellcome, All Wonders In One Sight
Marcel Grandjany – Rhapsodie, Op.10
Bob Chilcott – Dance in the Street
Benjamin Britten – Gloriana, Op.53: Choral Dances
Gustav Holst – Summer
Eric Whitacre – Three flower songs
Paul Reade – Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite
Fanny Mendelssohn – Gartenlieder, Op.3
Bob Chilcott – The Lily and The Rose
Stephen Paulus – The Road Home

Performers

Mark Biggins – Conductor
Mared Pugh-Evans – Harp
Zoë Humphries – clarinet

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Programme Note

EPSOM CHAMBER CHOIR BRINGS YOU MUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING

Summer is finally in sight and Epsom Chamber Choir’s concert on 24th June is inspired by the thought of those balmy summer evenings with a scent of flowers wafting past. Daffodils, lilies, roses and cowslips all feature in the music performed by the choir under the direction of their conductor Mark Biggins.

Joining them for this performance, will be international prize-winning harpist Mared Pugh-Evans who will accompany them in the vibrant Choral Dances from Britten’s Gloriana. She will be joined by clarinettist Zoë Humphries to play Paul Reade’s Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite which many will recognise as the theme tune from the 1980s Victorian Kitchen Garden television series.

Their programme begins with the mediaeval ‘Sumer is icumen in’, one of the oldest songs written in English. It continues with flower and dance-themed music by Monteverdi, Jonathan Dove, Chilcott, Whitacre, Fanny Hensel and others.

Epsom Chamber Choir is one of Surrey’s leading chamber choirs, performing regularly at St Martin’s Church, Epsom where the excellent acoustics make the most of the choir’s superb sound.

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