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CHARITY NO: 1108734 WELCOME BY

WILLIAM VANN FRCO ARAM

Director of Music and Organist of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Last year’s 10th anniversary of the Royal The Royal Hospital Choir’s concert is always Hospital Chelsea concert series emphasised its one of the highlights of the programme. They reputation for musical excellence: some of the perform Mozart’s Requiem, one of the most finest musicians from the UK and across Europe compelling of all choral masterpieces, alongside BECOME A performed a programme of chamber music, Bach’s stunning Magnificat before we close the choral and orchestral works and jazz in the series with a concert bringing together local wonderful setting of Christopher Wren’s Chapel. schoolchildren, musicians and prize-winning soloists for performances of Rutter’s Mass of the FRIEND This year, for the first time, we open with an Children and Britten’s St Nicolas - a real treat in opera. Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen was written the run-up to Christmas. HELP US LOOK AFTER at the same time as the Chapel was holding its very first services and will be a unique and Finally, a few words of thanks: first to all of you THE NATION’S VETERANS unmissable musical event. We continue by for your staunch support both now and over the welcoming back the Gould Piano Trio, one of past ten years; secondly, to our sponsors, whose the country’s most accomplished chamber support is crucial to the survival of the concerts, music groups, and the critically acclaimed flute and in particular to David Bowerman, who was duo of Lisa Friend and Anna Stokes playing an the inspiration behind the series and continues enchanting and fascinating programme from to support many young artists at the start of their recent album Luminance. their careers.

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SILVER MEMBERSHIP GOLD MEMBERSHIP PLATINUM MEMBERSHIP THE CHAPEL MUSIC FOUNDATION Entitles you to attend some of our Enjoy the benefits of being a Silver Platinum members are invited to Silver & THE DUNARD FUND most prestigious events including the Friend plus special membership of Gold events plus an exclusive reception and Governor’s Review. the Sloane Club. private viewing of the Chelsea Flower Show. THE TILLETT TRUST THE KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARDS www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/become-friend-rhc For further information, please contact the Fundraising Team on 020 7881 5516 or email [email protected] BURY COURT OPERA

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Wednesday 24th September Wednesday 8th October

Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 Edwin York Bowen Rhapsody Trio (1926) THE FAIRY-QUEEN THE Robert Schumann Trio in G minor, Op. 110 in association with Bury Court Opera Composed in 1692, Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen Felix Mendelssohn Trio in D minor, Op. 49 consists of an astonishing set of masques, GOULD PIANO written to accompany Shakespeare’s A TRIO For over twenty years the Gould Piano Trio Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is one of the have remained at the forefront of the chamber very first English ‘operas’, representing in many music scene, having been launched into ways the culmination of Purcell’s dramatic an international career by winning the first style. It is possible that the work, with its Melbourne International Chamber Music concluding masque featuring Hymen, the God of Competition. Selected as YCAT artists they Marriage, was written for the fifteenth wedding subsequently became ‘Rising Stars’ performing anniversary of William and Mary, who were at major venues in Europe and North America. on the throne during the completion of the Familiar to listeners of BBC Radio 3, they Royal Hospital and the consecration of its Wren perform at major festivals and venues in the UK Chapel in 1691: it is hard, therefore, to think of and abroad, with regular tours to the United a more apt setting for this concert performance States. They have recently recorded the trios of Bury Court Opera’s critically acclaimed 2014 by Dvorak and Mendelssohn for Champs Hill production, moving to the Royal Hospital for one Records and on 8th October they perform night only: an unmissable treat to open our 2014 three highlights of the trio repertoire: once RH Concert Series. dubbed the ‘English Rachmaninov’, York Bowen’s music is enjoying ‘a remarkable revival’ (The Eloise Irving, Flore Philis soprano Times) and his haunting rhapsody appears Lily Papaioannou mezzo-soprano alongside Schumann’s late, passionate trio and Magid El-Bushra, John Lattimore counter-tenor Mendelssohn’s first trio: one of his most popular David Webb tenor chamber works and a romantic masterpiece. Richard Latham baritone Aidan Smith bass Julia Burbach director Lucy Gould violin Simon Over, William Vann musical directors Alice Neary cello The Wren Players Benjamin Frith piano

“THE CAST’S ENUNCIATION WAS BEYOND ONE’S WILDEST HOPES... “PURE GOULD... TRIO PLAYING AT ITS BEST.”

THE TIMBRES OF AIDAN SMITH’S VOICE ARE QUITE GORGEOUS... The Strad SHE TOOK HALF PURCELL’S PLUM SOPRANO ARIAS AND TURNED THEM INTO GOLD.”

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Wednesday 22nd October Wednesday 5th November

Internationally-renowned, British flautists Lisa Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat, BWV 243 LUMINANCE: Friend and Anna Stokes joined forces for their THE CHAPEL Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem, K. 626 LISA FRIEND & critically acclaimed 2014 CD Luminance, and on CHOIR OF THE 22nd October they perform this unique recital Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor is undoubtedly ANNA STOKES of romantic and charming arrangements for ROYAL HOSPITAL the most famous of all unfinished musical flute duo with cello and piano accompaniment. compositions. Composed in Vienna in 1791, the work was only partially complete when Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine Works by the French composers Fauré, Ibert Mozart died of a fever on 5th December and Jaques Ibert Deux Interludes and Saint-Saëns are performed alongside music was completed the following year by Franz Xaver Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso by Argentine Piazzolla, who revolutionised the Süssmayr, in order to fulfil the original commission Ástor Piazzolla Oblivion tango and Ennio Morricone, one of the most by Count Franz von Walsegg, an amateur chamber Camille Saint-Saëns Odelette prolific film composers of all time, and some rare musician who routinely commissioned works by and other works by Joachim Andersen, Franz treats by lesser-known composers. composers and passed them off as his own! On Doppler, Philippe Gaubert and Georges Hüe. Since its release, Luminance has been chosen 5th November we hear the Requiem alongside as Classic FM’s CD of the Week (January 2014), Bach’s 1733 Magnificat, a stunning extended David Mellor’s Album of the Week (5 Star setting of the Virgin Mary’s speech from Luke’s Review) in the Mail on Sunday (January 2014) gospel for choir, soloists and orchestra. The and aired on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 2, Classic Royal Hospital’s own, critically acclaimed Chapel FM and RTE Lyric FM. They are delighted to be Choir, which is formed from some of London’s joined for the evening by cellist Martin Radford finest professional choral singers and musicians, and pianist Mark Kincaid. provides the chorus and soloists and William Vann, Director of Music, conducts.

Lisa Friend flute Anna Stokes flute The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea Martin Radford cello The Wren Players Mark Kincaid piano William Vann conductor “IF THE SOUND OF ONE FLUTE IS ATTRACTIVE, THE SOUND OF “A VIVIDLY INVOLVING SEQUENCE OF CHORUSES, TWO, PLAYED AS WELL AS THEY ARE HERE, IS EXHILARATING.” THE CHOIR COMBINED CHARACTERFUL PERFORMANCE Mail on Sunday (Album of the Week review) WITH SOME FINELY FOCUSSED SINGING. EACH [SINGER] CONTRIBUTED HIGHLY CHARACTERFUL “BEAUTIFUL PLAYING” AND TECHNICALLY ACCOMPLISHED SINGING... BBC Music Magazine (April 2014) THIS WAS A MARVELLOUSLY INVOLVING PERFORMANCE.”

Robert Hugill’s review of the Chapel Choir’s performance of Israel in Egypt, 2013

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Wednesday 19th November

CHARITY NO: 1076414 John Rutter Mass of the Children MASS OF THE Benjamin Britten Saint Nicolas, Op. 42

CHILDREN/SAINT Last year’s opening concert in the RH Concert NICOLAS Series brought together professional musicians alongside singers and orchestral players from supported by the Tillett Trust local schools in a stunning performance of and the Kathleen Ferrier Awards Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and this year we repeat the feat. Rutter’s Mass of the Children, first performed at Carnegie Hall in 2003, is a non- liturgical Missa brevis, setting the traditional Latin and Greek Mass text interwoven with several English poems. Britten’s cantata Saint Nicolas ushers in the Christmas season with a text by Eric Crozier, written after extensive research into the legendary life of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, and is a dramatic portrait of the life of, and legends associated with, this mystical figure. The English Chamber Choir celebrated their fortieth SUPPORT anniversary in 2012, and join soloists Keri Fuge, Thomas Herford, 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS winner Gareth Brynmor John, the Wren Players and local schoolchildren under the baton of the Royal Hospital’s Director of Music, William Vann.

The English Chamber Choir The Wren Players The Choirs of Garden House School, St Barnabas’ CE Primary School & Thomas’s School, Battersea “KERI FUGE SANG WITH Keri Fuge soprano DRAMATIC FORCE AND Thomas Herford tenor Gareth Brynmor John baritone VOCAL SPLENDOUR” William Vann conductor FUNDRAISE FOR US MAKE A DONATION THE GIFT OF A LEGACY Ceasefire Magazine From running a marathon to baking a If you share our vision you may wish to Legacy gifts play a crucial role in cake, we’d love to help you with your help us by making a donation. improving the facilities and living fundraising activities. conditions of our Chelsea Pensioners. “GARETH BRYNMOR JOHN’S CLARITY, WARMTH AND EVEN SPREAD HELD US GRIPPED FROM THE BEGINNING.” www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/how-you-can-help For further information, please contact the Fundraising Team on 020 7881 5522 or email [email protected] The Times

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