Music in the Round: Sheffield
Claude Debussy: En blanc et noir
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Interval
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Claude Debussy: En blanc et noir
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Interval
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Antonin Dvořák: Quartet no. 9 in D minor, op. 34
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet no. 9 in C major, op. 59, no. 3, Rasumovsky
Darius Milhaud: Suite for violin, clarinet and piano, op. 157b
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in E flat major, D. 897, Notturno
Johannes Brahms: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor, op. 114
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Piers Hellawell: The Rising of Sirius
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Franz Schubert, arr. Anne-Marie O’Farrell: Fantasie in F minor, op. 103, D. 940
Ekaterina Walter-Kühne: Fantaisie Sur Un Theme De L’Opera Eugene Onegin par P. Tchaikovsky
Jean-Michel Damase: Sonatine for two harps
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Caroline Lizotte: Raga
Claude Debussy, arr. Anne-Marie O’Farrell: Six épigraphes antiques (selection)
Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Anne-Marie O’Farrell: Chromatic Fantaisa and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Philip Hammond, arr. Anne-Marie O’Farrell: The Beardless Boy
A Million Nightingales
Corvus Consort reveals how musicians and poets have drawn inspiration from their avian friends for hundreds of years, in a programme of choral music themed around birds.
Charting a course from the 15th century to the present day, the singers of Corvus showcase their great versatility, performing renaissance madrigals, traditional folksongs, 20th-centuryBritish music, and contemporary works by leading living composers.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music
Linda Hirschhorn: I have a million nightingales
Poem: Nightingales by Robert Bridges
Gerald Finzi: Nightingales, op. 17/5
Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Paul Hindemith: Un Cygne
Jacques Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno
Trad., arr. Freddie Crowley: The Blackest Crow
Trad., arr. John Hearne: The Seagull
Poem: The Celestial Bird by Jessica Powers
Roxanna Panufnik: Celestial Bird
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Charles Villiers Stanford: The Blue Bird
Caroline Shaw: and the swallow
William Cornysh: Ah, Robin
Poem: To a Skylark by Percy Shelley
Becky McGlade: To a Skylark
Maurice Ravel: Trois Beaux Oiseaux
Trad., arr. Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove
Trad., arr. Edward T. Chapman: The Three Ravens
Clément Janequin: Le Chant des Oiseaux
Karine Polwart: Follow the heron home
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Edwin York Bowen: Phantasie, op. 54
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132
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Huw Watkins: Speak Seven Seas
Joseph Holbrooke: Nocturne, op. 57, no. 1, Fairyland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major, K. 498, Kegelstatt