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Burgess Hall
One Leisure
Westwood Road
St Ives
Cambridgeshire
PE27 6WU
England
Programme
Tom Randle – Cromwell (world premiere)
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas, Z.626
Performers
Grant Doyle – baritone
Nell McLeod – soprano
Olga Elbourn – piano
Nikki Racklin – librettist
Julian Merson – keyboard continuo
Helen Medlock – Leader
St Ives Choral Society
Camerata East
St Ivo Youth Choir
Programme Note
Oliver Cromwell returns to St Ives
March 2023 sees the first performance of a new musical work commissioned by a local choral society. St Ives Choral Society are very proud to be performing the world premiere of Cromwell – an oratorio composed by Tom Randle, with libretto by Nikki Racklin. In words and music this new work traces the life and death of one of Cambridgeshire’s most famous and controversial sons. Cromwell has been specially written for the Society and is being performed in collaboration with the Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon. The double-bill concert takes place on 18 March 2023 at the Burgess Hall, St Ives. Tickets are available from Ticketsource (www.ticketsource.co.uk/st-ives-choral-society).
After the devastating effects of the pandemic St Ives Choral Society aims to play its part in getting people (young and old) back singing – performing to a public eager to enjoy live music again. One of its main objects as a charity is to involve itself into the wider local community and this special project sees it collaborating with the local St Ivo School, whose children’s choir is joining us in the performance.
The accompaniment will be provided by an intimate chamber orchestra that will showcase the very best musicians from our region. Grant Doyle, principal baritone of the Royal Opera House, will sing the part of Oliver Cromwell. In the same programme the choir will perform Purcell’s masterpiece Dido and Aeneas, in which former Zurich Opera House principal Julia Riley will sing the role of the doomed Queen of Carthage.
