Corvus Consort will give a highly anticipated performance with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet at the Beaminster Festival in West Dorset this summer.
Known for their musical excellence and creative programming, Corvus Consort enjoy collaborations with some of the country’s most outstanding artists and composers. Their partnership with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet began in the summer of 2020, when they released a remotely-recorded video during the first coronavirus lockdown, featuring J. S. Bach’s accompanied chorale Jesus bleibet meine Freude which was premiered online by The Sixteen as part of their Sounds Sublime Festival. They have since enjoyed live performances together at Stour Music Festival, Winchfield Festival, Whiddon Autumn Festival and Chiltern Arts Festival. In 2022, they released their CD ‘Revoiced’ on Chandos, a programme of Baroque and Renaissance pieces reimagined by Corvus’s director Freddie Crowley alongside four contemporary works.
For their performance at the Beaminster Festival, the ensembles will perform works by J.S. Bach and other members of the Bach family, Schütz, James MacMillan and Gabrieli in arrangements by Freddie Crowley and Iain Farrington, as well as Sarah Rimkus’s Mater Dei and Owain Park’s Miserere after Allegri.
A highlight of the festival’s programming of musical, theatrical, literary and artistic events taking place this summer, this concert will be given at St. Mary’s Church, Beaminster, on Wednesday 2nd July at 7:30pm. General booking is now open, and full details of this event may be found by following the link below.
