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SUMMARY:Serenade To Music
DESCRIPTION:Ely Sinfonia and Ely Choral Society present\nSERENADE TO MUSIC\nIn Ely Cathedral\nSaturday 8th July 2023\nat 7.30pm\nVaughan Williams Greensleeves\nVaughan Williams Serenade to Music\nBeethoven 8th Symphony\nChilcott Canticles of Light\nBeethoven Choral Fantasia\nwith Natalia Williams-Wandoch piano\nSteve Bingham and Andrew Parnell, conductors\nEly Sinfonia, Ely Choral Society and Ely Youth Choir join together in a unique selection of music that makes the most of the magnificent space of Ely Cathedral. Vaughan Williams, the English twentieth century master, stands next to Beethoven, the early romantic titan. Between them is Bob Chilcott, one of the most prolific and celebrated choral composers of today.\nWhat could be more different than Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves and his Serenade to Music, the first combining two traditional English songs and the second an exquisite piece written in 1938 to celebrate Henry Wood’s jubilee as a conductor?\nBeethoven’s 8th Symphony is happy, bouncy, humorous and enigmatic, poking fun at convention from its start through to its triumphant ending. Described as “one of the shortest, weirdest, but most compelling symphonies of the 19th century” (The Guardian), it certainly fulfils Beethoven’s promise in a letter to a friend that “music ought to strike fire from the soul of a man”.\nBob Chilcott’s gentle, prayerful Canticles of Light shows the influence of ancient plainchant, echoing Ely’s historic monastic worship. Ely Youth Choir will add a direct link to those medieval days singing atmospheric quasi-plainsong melodies.\nFinally, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia couldn’t be a more marked contrast to the other choral works of this concert. We revisit the praise of music in an unashamedly ebullient fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra. It could be a sketch for the finale of Beethoven’s Choral (9th) Symphony preceded by a cadenza stolen from one of his piano concertos, played by virtuoso pianist Natalia Williams-Wandoch.\nTickets cost £25, £20 and £10 (£5 for U18s) and are available from Ely Cathedral Box Office (Tel 01353 660349)\nEmail box.office@elycathedral.org or online from\nhttps://www.elycathedral.org/events.\n
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LOCATION:Ely Cathedral, Ely, UK
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