FRIDAY 9th APRIL
4.00pm EMERGING TALENT
St Laurence’s Church
An opportunity to hear this year’s chosen composers in a working session with leading composer, Rhian Samuel, and students from the Royal College of Music.
7.00pm OPENING RECITAL
St Laurence’s Church
Roderick Williams baritone
Iain Burnside piano
George Butterworth Bredon Hill and other songs
Bredon Hill
O fair enough are sky and plain
When the lad for longing sighs
On the idle hill of summer
With rue my heart is laden
C.W. Orr from A Shropshire Lad
Along the Field
When I watch the living meet
The Lent Lily
Roderick Williams Three Housman Parodies
Woe
Tea-time parody
What, still alive at twenty-two?
Ivor Gurney Walking Song
Louis Mander A Rondel for Gloucestershire
Ivor Gurney On your midnight pallet lying
Ivor Gurney In Flanders
Louis Mander Christmas in Prison
Ivor Gurney Captain Stratton’s Fancy
Arr Benjamin Britten The Ploughboy
Arr George Butterworth Roving in the Dew
Ralph Vaughan Williams Linden Lea
Arr Benjamin Britten The foggy, foggy dew
Arr George Butterworth Seventeen come Sunday
SATURDAY 10th APRIL
10.00am THE LESW THINKTANK
St Laurence’s Church
A panel discussion chaired by Katy Hamilton with:
Ceri Owen – researcher, writer, pianist; Director of Performance, University of Birmingham
Declan Costello – consultant ENT surgeon
Natasha Loges – RCM Head of Postgraduate Programmes
James Murphy – Chief Executive, Royal Philharmonic Society
11.30am MORNING RECITAL
St Laurence’s Church
Natalya Romaniw soprano
Benson Wilson baritone
Iain Burnside piano
John Ireland
The Bells of San Marie
Earth’s Call
Sea Fever
Santa Chiara
The Salley Gardens
Great Things
Rebecca Clarke
The Donkey
Cradle Song
Tiger, Tiger
Liza Lehman
The Swing
Jim
Evensong
Magdalen at Michael’s Gate
Frank Bridge When most I wink
Herbert Howells Come sing and dance
Herbert Howells King David
Frank Bridge Love went a-Riding
2.30pm YOUNG ARTIST SHOWCASE
St Laurence’s Church
Emma Roberts mezzo
Laurence Kilsby tenor
James Atkinson baritone
Michael Foyle violin
Gamal Khamis piano
Joshua Ballance They Were Too Much Wanting To Be Loved
1. Patrick
2. The Cult of Common Sense
3. Umbrella
Dominic Wills To know them gone
1. Proud Songsters
2. The Swifts
3. Dead in the cold
Helena Paish New Work TBA
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Water Mill
Samuel Barber A Nun takes the veil
Ivor Gurney Severn Meadows
Ina Boyle My Boy Jack
Rhian Samuel Spring Diary
1. Arrival Dream
2. Snow Squalls
3. It happens
4. East Wind
5. A Clearer Memory
Hugh Morris Three Songs from ‘Springlines’
Derri Joseph Lewis Cane fires from the cabin of a plane
Philip Lancaster Fallen PREMIERE
1. G.M.H.
2. R.V.W.
3. J.R.K.
4. I.B.G. – A.E.H.
5. A.E.H.
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Last Invocation
4.00pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
5.00pm FINAL RECITAL
IN MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER ‘KIFFER’ FINZI
St Laurence’s Church
Kathryn Rudge mezzo
Iain Burnside piano
Gerald Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring
1. Come Away, Come Away Death
2. Who is Silvia?
3. Fear no more the Heat o’ the Sun
4. O Mistress Mine
5. It was a Lover and his Lass
Rhian Samuel The Moon and I PREMIERE
1. Moonrise
2. Philomela
3. The Moon
4. The Moon and I
Sir Edward Elgar Sea Pictures
1. Sea Slumber Song
2. In Haven
3. Sabbath Morning at Sea
4. Where Corals Lie
5. The Swimmer
Lee Hoiby The Bermudas
with Natalya Romaniw
The above programme is subject to change without notification.