Come and enjoy an evening of chamber music for strings and a delicious supper in the Cornish village of Botus Fleming. Funds raised will support Ten Tors Orchestra’s 2016/17 concert series.
The ensemble will perform popular music by Mozart and Handel and the famous Monti Czardas.
Please note this event is not a part of the Peninsula Arts programme. For more information, please contact the event organisers directly.
1 hour performance followed by buffet supper
Wednesday 25th May at 19.00
Tickets: £20 (includes buffet) in advance only from Karen Ible:...
The 20 instruments, that originate from Indonesia are made of bronze and are built and tuned to be played together as an orchestra. They produce a unique rhythmical vibrating sound, allowing a variety of music to be played ranging from louder, flamboyant and dramatic pieces to quieter, contemplative arrangements.
Simon Ible, conductor Robyn Allegra Parton, soprano Anna Harvey, mezzo-soprano Daniel Auchincloss, tenor James Oldfield, bass-baritone
This was Schubert’s last Mass composed in 1828. It is quite different from his early masses – very romantic with a Beethoven-like style and reflects some of the musical passion of Mozart’s Requiem. It is a large scale work requiring a substantial orchestra, with glorious choral sections and a particularly beautiful Et in carnatus est for the soloists.
Paganini: Caprice No.24, for solo violin Vivaldi: Violin concerto in A minor Geminiani: Violin Sonata in G Major Bax: Mediterranean, for piano Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera Sarasate: Hommage à Rossini
Arnold Bax provided the name to this chamber music concert. He composed his piano piece Mediterranean after being inspired by a trip to Majorca. Here at the heart of Mare Nostrum we explore the grand operatic repertoire as we cross 400 years of history and meet the virtuosic roots of violin and piano playing in Spain
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Such Sweet Thunder is among the most masterful of the many suites composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, his most frequent and significant collaborator. It was commissioned in 1956 by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Such Sweet Thunder and premiered to critical acclaim on 28 April, 1957, the night before Ellington turned 58, at New York’s Town Hall.
The programme will also include Duke Ellington classics Take the A Train, Caravan, Mood Indigo and It Don't Mean A Thing
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Dr Katherine Williams, Lecturer in Music, Plymouth University
Katherine Williams uses Duke Ellington’s music to explore the balance of authorial power between composer, bandleader, musicians, improvisers and record producers. This lecture is both an introduction to the forthcoming performance of the Shakespeare suite Such Sweet Thunder, and an investigation into the music and recordings of the notorious Ellington performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Alexander Robin Baker, baritone Jo Ramadan, piano
Clive Jenkins is associate composer-arranger with the Chamber Ensemble of London, which has played his music at London’s most prestigious venues including the Purcell Room, Kings Place and St James, Piccadilly.
A Plymouth man, many of his works have West Country themes – like The Mayflower Pilgrims, the cantata he wrote for the University of Plymouth Choral Society and Ten Tors Orchestra.
Clive Jenkins’ Scurvy Songs from Shakespeare was commissioned by...
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Clive Jenkins talks about his three new Shakespeare songs: Pugging Song, A Scurvy Tune & Freedom, Hey-day!
Clive Jenkins is associate composer-arranger with the Chamber Ensemble of London, which has played his music at London’s most prestigious venues including the Purcell Room, Kings Place and St James, Piccadilly.
A Plymouth man, many of his works have West Country themes – like The Mayflower Pilgrims, the cantata he wrote for the University of Plymouth Choral Society and Ten Tors Orchestra.
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Ten Tors Orchestra & Bath Spa University Choir Simon Ible, conductor Augusta Hebbert, Soprano Elin Pritchard, soprano Alexander Robin Baker, baritone Matthew Spring, chorus master
Thomas Linley: A Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare Thomas Arne: Nine Shakespeare Songs Henry Purcell: Incidental music for The Tempest
Bath composer Thomas Linley the younger (1756 - 1778) was known as the “English Mozart”. He composed violin sonatas and concertos as well as choral works, and...
