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Late Night Concert as part of New Paths Festival
Date: Friday 12th April 2024Time: 10:00pmVenue: St Mary's Church, BeverleyChristian Forshaw and Grace Davidson’s Historical Fiction performance in 2021 was a real festival highlight, and here they return with another late-night collaboration weaving together the haunting sonorities of saxophone, soprano and organ. 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Christian’s groundbreaking album, Sanctuary, which reached the top of the charts and was played over 200 times in the year of its release by Classic FM. Simple ecclesiastical melodies inspired by Christian’s childhood as a church chorister are cast in a new contemporary light and developed into atmospheric concert pieces, perfect for the candlelit setting of St Mary’s.
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Coffee Concert as part of New Paths Festival
Date: Saturday 13th April 2024Time: 11:00amVenue: St Mary's Church, BeverleyWhitacre: Seal Lullaby | Bennett: Country Dances | Rossini: William Tell Overture | Frances-Hoad: Star Falling | Finnis: Quartet No 1 ‘Aloysius’ | Kloppers: Last Rose of Summer | Feery: Boreal
Clouds, valleys, breezes, waves, mountains, petals and stars – all are woven together in this homage to nature, the great teacher. Whitacre’s choral music is celebrated the world over, and here his Seal Lullaby is performed by strings and piano. Edmund Finnis’ 2018 first string quartet was praised by The Times for its ‘affecting rocking patterns, expressive musings on gravely beautiful polyphony by Byrd, and natural ease.’ Nature is at the basis of much folk music, so we hear jazz-infused transcriptions for saxophone by Richard Rodney Bennett of 16th century country dances, and a lyrical arrangement by Jacobus Kloppers of Irish tune The Last Rose of Summer. To conclude the programme, organist Richard Pinel joins pianist Libby Burgess in their own flamboyant duet arrangement of the William Tell Overture (better known to some as ‘The Lone Ranger’).
Jamie Campbell (violin) | Alessandro Ruisi (violin) | Kasia Ziminska (viola) | Rosalind Ventris (viola) | Nathaniel Boyd (cello) | Libby Burgess (piano) | Richard Pinel (organ) | Christian Forshaw (saxophone)
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Evening Recital
Date: Saturday 20th April 2024Time: 9:00pmVenue: Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, ItalyPrelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fantasie Choral No. 2 in F sharp minor Percy Whitlock (1903–1946)
Scherzo Op. 2 Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Andante Sostenuto from Symphonie Gothique Op. 70 Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
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Evening Recital
Date: Thursday 18th July 2024Time: 7:30pmVenue: St John the Baptist, Upper NorwoodMore information to be released closer to the event.
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Afternoon Recital
Date: Sunday 6th October 2024Time: 4:00pmVenue: St Marylebone Parish Church, LondonMore information to be released closer to the event.
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USA Tour
Date: Monday 21st April 2025More information to be released closer to the time.
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