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St Nicholas' Church
Jane Street
High Bradfield
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S6 6LG
England
Tickets
Prices: £23 / £10 (under 25 years) on sale from March 1st 2026
Season tickets: £142 Patron Pass all 7 Festival concerts at a reduced price
Booking line: 0114 285 1573
Book Tickets
Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Silence and Music
Linda Hirschhorn – I have a million nightingales
Gerald Finzi – Nightingales, Op.17 no.5
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Paul Hindemith – Un Cygne
Jacques Arcadelt – Il bianco e dolce cigno
Traditional and Anonymous – The Blackest Crow (arr. Freddie Crowley)
Traditional and Anonymous – The Seagull (arr. John Hearne)
Roxanna Panufnik – Celestial Bird
~ Interval ~
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
William Cornysh – Ah Robin
Becky McGlade – To a Skylark
Maurice Ravel – Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis, M.69 no.2
Traditional and Anonymous – The Turtle Dove (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Traditional and Anonymous – The Three Ravens (arr. Edward T Chapman)
Clément Jannequin – Le Chant des Oiseaux
Karine Polwart – Follow the heron home (arr. Baz Chapman & Freddie Crowley)
Performers
Freddie Crowley – Director
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Programme Note
Founded and directed by Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort is a UK-based vocal ensemble comprising some of the country’s finest young professional acapella singers. Described as “dazzling” and “always full of fresh thinking” by BBC Music Magazine, Corvus’s combination of musical excellence, passionate performance and imaginative presentation makes them hugely popular with audiences.
As part of their instrumental collaboration with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Corvus released their debut CD ‘Revoiced’ in 2022. This was followed in 2024 by their critically acclaimed disc ‘Welcome Joy’, a celebration of women’s voices with harpist Louise Thomson, described as a ‘jewel box of glinting, shimmering choral gems’.
In their choral programme ‘A Million Nightingales’, Corvus Consort reveals how musicians and poets have regarded and drawn inspiration from their avian friends, from the 15th century, through renaissance madrigals, traditional folk songs, 20th-century British music, to songs by leading, living composers.
