Concerts
BRITTEN SAINT NICHOLAS
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Performers
- Saffron Walden Choral Society
- Britten Sinfonia
- Quintin Beer
- conductor
- Nicholas Pritchard
- tenor
- Choir of St Peter's College Oxford
- Choristers from St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Programme
- Henry Purcell arr. Benjamin Britten
- Chacony in G minor
- Edmund Rubbra
- Inscape
- Frank Bridge
- Sir Roger de Coverley Christmas Dance
- Benjamin Britten
- Saint Nicolas
Britten Sinfonia and Saffron Walden Choral Society perform a programme of 20th century British music.
Edmund Rubbra is a sadly neglected composer, but was highly rated in his time. Inscape (1964) is a beautiful melodic setting of four poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins.
Britten's Saint Nicolas (1948) tells stories of the life of St Nicolas, fourth century Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor, including the miraculous bringing back to life of three "pickled boys". Nicholas Pritchard will be reprising his role as St Nicolas, which he performed alongside Britten Sinfonia at the Aldeburgh Festival this June.
