Benedict Collins Rice / Kensington Philharmonic Orchestra  St Stephen's Church, London

Berlin Sinfonietta
Benedict Collins Rice - Conductor

Holywell Consort & I Dodici
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford

Holywell Consort and I Dodici collaborate for the first time in an exciting performance of Parry's Songs of Farewell in the college at which he was a student.

The concluding section of Arvo Pärt's compelling and profoundly beautiful setting of the St John Passion recorded in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral.

Excerpts from our CANTATA programme performed April 2016.
The programme, built around the Cantatas of Birtwistle and Stravinsky, uses their texts and the idea of 'refrains and refractions' to bring together music spanning half a millennium.

Birtwistle: Refrain from Cantata
Gavin Bryars: Lauda 25 (Dami conforto, Dio)
Birtwistle: Cantata
Medieval carol: Abide, I hope it be the best
Maxwell Davies: Ah Man Assay
Medieval carol: To many a well
Maxwell Davies: The Fader of Heven
Stravinsky: Cantata
Gavin Bryars: Lauda 4 (Oi me lasso)
Birtwistle: Refrain from Cantata

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (Soloist: Poppy Beddoe)
Beethoven Third Symphony, Eroica

i) Excerpt from Beethoven's Eroica
ii) Excerpt from Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1