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St Mary's Church
Church View
Bampton
Oxfordshire
OX18 2LW
England
Programme
Francis Poulenc – Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mitridate, re di Ponto ('Gia dagli occhi il velo e tolto')
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mitridate, re di Ponto ('Gia dagli occhi il velo e tolto')
Rhys Jones – Cilfan y coed
T Osborne Roberts – Y Gwanwyn Du
Alain Boublil – Les Miserables ('I dreamed a dream')
Jake Heggie – Paper Wings (A Route to the Sky)
~ Interval ~
Francis Poulenc – Hôtel
Amanda McBroom – The rose
Charlie Chaplin – Smile
Irving Berlin – White Christmas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat major, K.452
Performers
Kieron Connor Valentine – countertenor
André Bertoncini – piano
Jeremy Gray – piano
Bampton Winds
Programme Note
Bampton Classical Opera presents their annual concert of the festive season in commemoration of the village's patron Saint Beornwald. The eclectic programme of music is based around two majestic works by Mozart and Poulenc for piano and wind, played by artistic director Jeremy Gray and the wind instruments of the Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera.
Mozart’s beautiful quintet, for an unusual scoring, was considered by the composer at the time to be ‘the best thing I have written in my life’. Poulenc’s trio, his first major chamber work, is noted for its depth of feeling, with touches of Mozartian flavour and echoes of other composers’ styles yet retaining its youthful verve.
Kieron-Connor Valentine and André Bertoncini, prize-winners in the 2023 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition, join us with songs and arias by the same composers as well as a foray into some contrasting light music, including some Welsh songs.
