The girls and gentlemen of Exeter Cathedral Choir under the direction of Stephen Tanner, will present a programme of Sacred Music with anthems and motets from the 16th century to the present day. Groups of choral pieces will be interspersed with organ solos.
This concert was organised in conjunction with the organisation Live Music Now!
Dispel winter gloom with this vibrant lunchtime concert. Bella Tromba is a unique and innovative ensemble. Their dynamic performances and charismatic personalities ensure that they achieve notable success performing anything from serious classical music to light jazz. They have earned the prestigious title of Park Lane Young Artists and have had their début recital at the Purcell Room.
“The Rose Consort combines an entrancing ear for line and texture with great beauty of sound and suppleness of phrase, transporting us at once back to an era which gave a premium to grace, refinement, and civilised discourse”, said CD Review.
The programme we chose for the consort to perform was a series of dramatic songs from Elizabethan plays interspersed with dances and fantasias from Byrd, Tomkins and their contemporaries. For this they were joined by Katherine King, Mezzo-Soprano.
Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007, the Dante Quartet is known for its imaginative programming and the emotional intensity of its performances. The group was founded in 1995 at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and chose the name of Dante to reflect the idea of a great and challenging journey.
The quartet played Debussy Opus 10 in G Minor, Ravel Quartet in F, Haydn Opus 33/2 · ‘The Joke’ · and his Opus 50/5 quartets.
The Pavao Quartet was formed in 1998 at the Royal Academy of Music. They had their Purcell Room début in 2003 to favourable reviews. This versatile ensemble is not only highly regarded in classical concert venues across the world but has enjoyed collaborations with rock, pop and jazz artists. They are joined by award winning pianist Alison Farr for Schumann’s E Flat Piano Quintet and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major.
The concert will last approximately one hour with no interval. Following the concert Milverton Concert Society are hosting lunch at the Victoria Rooms. Please book lunch at the same time as booking tickets.
Alison Farr is joined by pianist Robin Davis and narrator Petroc Trelawny for the first concert in the Festival series of Beethoven’s symphonies. They will be performing Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony · no.6 . Tea will be provided in the church after the concert.
The last concert of the day is given by Piers Lane, a performer whose playing “glitters with filigree charm”, according to The Times. He will be playing Brahms Sonata no.3 in F Minor and Chopin’s 24 Preludes · opus 28.
Liz Hayley needs little introduction to many amateur musicians in Somerset because of her teaching, her much sought after accompanying skills and her patience, musicality and infectious enthusiasm in conducting the Wellington Choral Society. Keith plays with Bath’s Pump Room Trio and Jonathon is a music scholar at Queen’s College, Taunton.
These three Somerset musicians played Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Piano and Cello, Ravel’s Sonatine for Piano and Mike Mower’s Sonata Latino for Flute and piano
This is a group of 7 singers who are choral scholars at King’s College, Cambridge. You will have seen and heard them, as part of the King’s College Chapel Choir, at Christmas on the television and radio – now see and hear them in Milverton.
They will perform sacred music from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, madrigals, folk songs, part songs and close harmony – for which the group is best known. The programme will be interspersed with short organ recitals.
Wu Qian was born in Shanghai in 1984 then studied at the Menuhin School from the age of 11. She played Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat Major in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 15 and won the Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition at 16. After a successful debut
at the Wigmore Hall in 2002, she has had a second solo recital there in 2005 and has performed at many major venues throughout the world. The Independent Newspaper named her as the Classical Music Bright Young Star for 2007.
Wu Qian played Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in A flat, Chopin’s Ballade No 4, Brahms’ Six Piano Pieces and Listz’s Hungarian Rhapsody XII.
This young quartet was founded in Moscow in 1995 under the professorship of Valentin Berlinsky, the cellist of the Borodin Quartet. In 1996, the Dominant Quartet was awarded the Grand Prix at the Schostakovich International String Quartet Competition in St. Petersburg and were Prize Winners at the International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux in 2001.
The Times described the quartet’s UK debut in 2004 as “outstanding”. Since then the Quartet has had regular tours around the United Kingdom, including Wigmore Hall, where the Quartet made their successful debut in October 2006. Local audiences may have heard them at The Castle Hotel in Taunton in 2004 and 2006.
They played Beethoven’s Quartet in B flat, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Children’s Album’, Shostakovich’s Quartet No 12.
We are delighted to be hosting one of the Two Moors Festival’s concerts in Milverton Church. The Aronowitz Ensemble, which was selected a few months ago to be BBC3’s New Generation Artists, played Fauré’s Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor and Dvorák’s String Quintet in E flat major.