Grainger Concert News


FORTHCOMING

Tuesday 12 June
19.30
Melba Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Southern Cross Philharmonia Orchestra

Repertoire includes:

Three Gothic Pieces arranged for strings
Alleluia Psallat; Canon; Angelus ad Virginem

Friday 4 July
19.30
Location: Town Hall, Cheltenham
Event No. M1
Artists: BBC Philharmonic
Michal Dworzynski - Conductor
Priya Mitchell – violin
Cheltenham Bach Choir

Repertoire:

Britten // Suite: A time there was - 14'
Grainger // Pastoral; Gum-Suckers March
Ralph Vaughan Williams // The Lark Ascending - 13'
Holst // The Planets - 55'

Sunday 6 July
15.00
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
Artists: Matthew Rose - Bass
Gareth Hancock – Piano

Repertoire:

Percy Grainger // Shallow Brown - 6'
Benjamin Britten // Folksong Settings
1. Down by the Salley Gardens - 3'
2. The trees they grow so high - 4'
3. Little Sir William - 3'
4. O Waly, Waly - 4'
INTERVAL
George Butterworth // A Shropshire Lad - 8'
Ralph Vaughan Williams // Songs of Travel - 24'

Sunday 6 July
18.00
Drawing Room, CheltenhamTown Hall
Event No. M10
Meurig Bowen - Artistic Director
Audio Tour of Percy Grainger's world

Sunday 6 July
19.00
Town Hall, Cheltenham
Event No. M11
Artists: Ailish Tynan - Soprano
Daniel Norman – Tenor
Gareth Hancock - Conductor

Repertoire:

Percy Grainger // The Warriors - 18'
Steve Reich // Sextet - 20'
Alan Opie - Baritone
INTERVAL
Carl Orff // Carmina Burana - 60'

Tuesday 8 July
19.30
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
Event No. M17  

Artists: The Schubert Ensemble 
James Gilchrist - Tenor

Repertoire:

Grainger // Songs
Gurney // Songs
Vaughan Williams // On Wenlock Edge - 23'
Martin Butler // Sequenza Notturna - 23'
Dvořák // Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 - 29'

Tuesday 15 July
15.00
Pittville Campus, Cheltenham
Event No. M50
The Noble Savage & Bert, A Personal Memoir - Barrie Gavin's film portrait of Percy Grainger
   
Tuesday 15 July
19.30
Town Hall, Cheltenham
Event No. M51
Artists: The Band of HM Royal Marines
Major J A Kelly - Director

Repertoire:

Gustav Holst // Second Suite - 12'
Joe Duddell // The Redwood Tree WP
INTERVAL
Percy Grainger // Lincolnshire Posy - 16'
Ralph Vaughan Williams // English Folksong Suite - 11'

Cheltenham Music Festival 4-19 July 2008

For more information and to book tickets please contact the Box Office on +44 (0) 1242 227979.

You can also visit the Festival website at http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/music_festival.html and download the full Cheltenham Music Festival brochure.

For further media information please contact the Cheltenham Festivals Press Office below:

Amy Hulyer, Press Co-ordinator

t: 01242 775856 e: amy.hulyer@cheltenhamfestivals.com 

Cheltenham Festivals Press Office, 109 Bath Road, Cheltenham, Glos. GL53 7LS


 

The Queensland Orchestra

Last Night of the Proms

City Hall, Brisbane

Friday, 14 November 2008, 7:00 pm

Geoffrey Simon conductor

Antoinette Halloran soprano

Hahn‐Bin violin

Brisbane Chorale, Emily Cox director

Programme includes:

GRAINGER I'm Seventeen Come Sunday; The Keel Row (realised by Barry Peter Ould): Australian premiere; Irish Tune from County Derry (BFMS 29)

 


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