Music in Wells Cathedral 2019
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Musi c in Wells Cathedral 2019 wellscathedral.org.uk Music in Wells Cat hedral 201 9 Thursday 10 January 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Richard Tanner (Director of Music, Rugby School) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Friday 18 January 7.00pm PROMENADE CONCERT: TALLIS VOICES – REGINA COEL I Peter Leech (conductor) A promenade concert of renaissance choral music commemorating the Blessed Virgin Mary Tickets: £10.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, at the door, or by post from Dr C.R. Lovell, Green Farm Cottage, The Green, Farmborough, Bath, BA2 0BA, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope In aid of the Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust (wcct.co.uk) Tuesday 22 January 7.00pm PROMENADE CONCERT: WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Incidental music from opera, ballet, and staged production performed by brass and percussion students Tickets: £10.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door In aid of Wells Cathedral Music Wednesday 23 January 7.00pm PROMENADE CONCERT: WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL The talented woodwind students perform evocative and colourful repertoire, filling the spaces of Wells Cathedral with beautiful music Tickets: £10.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door In aid of Wells Cathedral Music Thursday 24 January 7.00 – 8.00pm (in the Quire) PROMENADE CONCERT: MESSIAEN’S LA NATIVITÉ DU SEIGNEUR Matthew Owens (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Wells Cathedral) and Prebendary Elsa van der Zee (reader) give the annual performance of Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of our Lord ) Tickets: £10.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door In aid of Wells Cathedral Music Friday 25 January 7.00pm PROMENADE CONCERT: OPUS ANGLICANUM WITH JASON REBELLO Candlemas Revisited: Opus Anglicanum return to Wells with their unique and popular performances of medieval chant, with brilliant jazz pianist Jason Rebello shedding new light on this wonderful music. The audience will be free to explore the wonderful spaces of the Cathedral while the magical chant of Candlemas fills the building Tickets: £15.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, opusanglicanum.org, and at the door Thursday 31 January 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) BACH COMPLETE ORGAN WORKS: RECITAL 25 The twenty-fifth in the series of organ recitals surveying the complete organ works of J.S. Bach, played by Matthew Owens (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Wells Cathedral) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Saturday 2 February 1.05pm A CEREMONY OF CAROLS: CHORISTERS OF WELLS CATHEDRAL CHOIR The Choristers of Wells Cathedral Choir perform Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols in a fundraising concert for Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust Tickets: £TBC; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door In aid of the Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust (wcct.co.uk) Friday 8 February 7.30pm SHERBORNE SCHOOL CHORAL SOCIETY VERDI: REQUIEM Tickets: £10.00, £12.00, and £15.00; available from Sherborne Girls’ School, Sherborne School, and Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office Thursday 21 February 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Callum Alger (St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Friday 22 February 7.30pm HIGH SHERIFF’S CONCERT SUMORS ǢTE EALLE: CELEBRATING SOMERSET Music, song, dance, theatre, and storytelling from across Somerset From Porlock to Portishead, Chard to Chew Magna, Wincanton to Widcombe and everywhere in between. Join the High Sheriff of Somerset in Wells, to mark the end of his shreival year in an inspiring, moving, and unique reflection of our beautiful and diverse county Tickets: £5.00 – £20.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door This event is kindly sponsored by Bath Spa University, Strode College, Wessex Water, and Lyecross Farm Thursday 14 March 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Harrison Cole (Senior Organ Scholar, Wells Cathedral) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Tuesday 19 March 7.30pm MILLFIELD FESTIVAL CHORUS CHARLES GOUNOD: MESSE SOLENNELLE DE SAINTE-CÉCILE Eloise Routledge (soprano), William Wallace (tenor), Andrew Davies (bass), Matthew Cook (conductor) Millfield School Choir joins with Millfield Chorale to form the Millfield Festival Chorus, continuing a twenty-year tradition of performing major choral works in Wells Cathedral. This year, the Chorus performs Gounod’s beautifully expressive and sensuous Messe Solonnelle de Sainte-Cécile Tickets: free of charge. To reserve, please email Millfield Music School on music@millfieldschool.com Thursday 21 March 7.30 – 8.40pm (in the Quire) EARLY MUSIC WELLS CONCERT Programme to be announced Tickets: £15.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door Saturday 30 March 7.00pm WELLS CATHEDRAL ORATORIO SOCIETY ELGAR: THE APOSTLES Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society, English Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Owens (conductor) Tickets: £12.00 – £28.00; available from wcos.org.uk, Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door Thursday 11 April 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Henrik Bo Hansen (Denmark) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Palm Sunday 14 April 3.00 – 4.00pm PHILIP WILBY: ST MATTHEW PASSION (world premiere) Wells Cathedral Choir, Jeremy Cole (organ), Matthew Owens (conductor) Commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral, this major new setting of the St Matthew Passion is given its world premiere by Wells Cathedral Choir within a service for Palm Sunday Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Good Friday 19 April 7.30pm BATH CAMERATA: THE GOOD FRIDAY CONCERT Benjamin Goodson (conductor) For their thirty-second Good Friday Concert, Bath Camerata performs Bach’s Der Geist Hilft and Komm Jesu, Komm alongside James MacMillan’s extraordinary Miserere , and works from the Strathclyde Motets . The concert also includes works by Friedrich Cerha and Heinrich Schütz Admission: free Retiring collection in aid o f Wells Cathedral Music Thursday 25 April 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) BACH COMPLETE ORGAN WORKS: RECITAL 26 The twenty-sixth in the series of organ recitals surveying the complete organ works of J.S. Bach played by Matthew Owens (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Wells Cathedral) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Thursday 9 May 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Joshua Stephens (Assistant Director of Music, Sheffield Cathedral) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Thursday 13 June 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Christopher Herrick (Concert Organist) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Friday 14 June 7.30 – 8.40pm (in the Quire) EARLY MUSIC WELLS CONCERT Programme to be announced Tickets: £15.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door Thursday 27 June 7.30pm WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Laetitia Amodio (piano) Featuring Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (‘Titan’) Tickets: £10.00 – £18.00; available from Wells Cathedral School Box Office Please visit wells-cathedral-school.com and click on events or telephone 01749 834483 Saturday 6 July 7.00pm BATH BACH CHOIR MOZART: REQUIEM; EXULTATE JUBILATE Southern Sinfonia , Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Nigel Perrin (conductor) Tickets: £10.00 – £30.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, and at the door Thursday 11 July 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Matthew Redman (Director of Music, St John’s Church, Glastonbury) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Saturday 27 July 7.00pm SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR BACH: ST JOHN PASSION Somerset Chamber Choir, The Musical and Amicable Society, James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Sophie Gallagher (soprano), Timothy Morgan (counter-tenor), Rory Carver (tenor), Harry Thatcher (Pilate), Niall Anderson (Jesus), Richard Laing (conductor) An unmissable concert, featuring one of the world’s foremost Evangelists and one of the finest baroque orchestras in the UK Tickets: £10.00 – £25.00; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, Taunton Tourist Visitor Centre (01823 340470), somersetchamberchoir.org.uk, and at the door Thursday 8 August 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Barry Rose, OBE (formerly of Guildford, St Paul’s, and St Albans Cathedrals) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music Friday 6 September 7.30pm THE SIXTEEN Harry Christophers (conductor) The 2019 Choral Pilgrimage brings together music past and present, highlighting The Sixteen’s choral journey over the last 40 years. The choir’s close relationship with Sir James MacMillan continues with a new commission, O virgo prudentissima , contrasted with music by Fayrfax performed on their very first recording, alongside music by Wylkynson and Sheppard. These fine examples of English polyphony are juxtaposed with stunning music by Tavener and Eric Whitacre in The Sixteen’s 40th anniversary year Tickets: £15.00 – £30.00 ; available from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office, tickets.ncem.co.uk, and at the door Thursday 12 September 1.05 – 1.40pm (in the Quire) LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Colin Walsh (Organist Laureate, Lincoln Cathedral) Admission: free Retiring collection in aid o f Wells Cathedral Music Thursday 26 September 1.05 –