Excalibur Voices is delighted to be returning to our friends at the English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey to perform a programme of delightful, rarely performed music, by British composers.
Programme
Excalibur Voices are conducted by Duncan Aspden
CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Five Elizabethan Lyrics
ALAN RAWSTHORNE: A Rose for Lidice
GERALD FINZI: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
ROBIN MILFORD: Songs of Escape
HERBERT HOWELLS: Creep Afore Ye Gang ; A Croon ; The Shadows
JOHN IRELAND: There Is a Garden in Her Face ; May Flowers ; In Summer Woods ; Evening Song
EDGAR BAINTON: Three Songs: In Youth Is Pleasure ; Abou ben Adhem ; Behold,My Love, How Green the Groves
GERALD FINZI: Seven Partsongs – Poems by Robert Bridges ("I praise the tender flower","I have loved flowers that fade", "My spirit sang all day", "Clear and gentle stream","Nightingales", "Haste on, my joys!", "Wherefore tonight so full of care")
SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Lullaby
CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Five Elizabethan Lyrics
ALAN RAWSTHORNE: A Rose for Lidice
GERALD FINZI: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
ROBIN MILFORD: Songs of Escape
HERBERT HOWELLS: Creep Afore Ye Gang ; A Croon ; The Shadows
JOHN IRELAND: There Is a Garden in Her Face ; May Flowers ; In Summer Woods ; Evening Song
EDGAR BAINTON: Three Songs: In Youth Is Pleasure ; Abou ben Adhem ; Behold,My Love, How Green the Groves
GERALD FINZI: Seven Partsongs – Poems by Robert Bridges ("I praise the tender flower","I have loved flowers that fade", "My spirit sang all day", "Clear and gentle stream","Nightingales", "Haste on, my joys!", "Wherefore tonight so full of care")
SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Lullaby
Tickets
Online bookings: via English Music Festival
Practical information
Running time: TBC
For more information please see the English Music Festival programme.
For more information please see the English Music Festival programme.
