Future Concerts

Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony

In aid of RNLI

with The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster
The Mid-Somerset Orchestra

Mendelssohn - Overture The Hebrides
Stanford - Fourth Irish Rhapsody

Soprano Amanda Roocroft
Baritone George von Bergen
Conductor Gavin Carr

A Sea Symphony is an alliance of souls between Vaughan Williams noblehearted Englishness and Walt Whitman’s ecstatic free-thinking liberality. From the opening page we hear and feel the spray of the sea through massed forces of choir and full orchestra.

Wells Cathedral
Saturday 11th July 2009, 7.00pm

Tickets £25, £20, £15, £10 on sale from 1st May 2009 from Bath Festivals Box Office 01225 463362 or
www.bathfestivals.org.uk, Wells Cathedral Bookshop 01749 672773, Warminster Tourist Information 01985 218548

Christmas Concert

St Swithin’s Church,The Paragon, Bath
Saturday December 12 th, 2009 at 7.30 pm.

The programme will include

Britten A Ceremony of Carols
Britten Simple Symphony
Finzi In Terra Pax
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols

with Bath Phil,
Gavin Carr Conductor

A popular programme of twentieth century English music for Christmas, with strings and harp, in the lovely eighteenth century setting of the newly refurbished St Swithin’s, Walcot. There will also be carols for choir and audience to join in!

Ticket prices to be confirmed, from Bath Festivals Box Office 01225 463362 www.bathfestivals.org.uk

Beethoven Mass in C

Bath Abbey
Saturday April 24, 2010, at 7.30 pm

Beethoven – Overture, Leonora no 3
Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
Beethoven – Mass in C, Op 86

Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet
Vocal soloists to be announced

Bath Phil
Gavin Carr, Conductor

Beethoven’s Mass in C is less well known than it deserves to be, probably overshadowed by the extraordinary Missa Solemnis. It contains some of his most beautiful vocal writing and is a major work which we are very excited to be reviving in Bath.

We are also delighted to continue our association with the great trumpet virtuoso, Crispian Steele-Perkins, who will play Haydn’s ever popular concerto and has also promised to perform the famous trumpet call in the Leonora no 3 Overture!

Ticket prices to be confirmed, from Bath Festivals Box Office 01225 463362 www.bathfestivals.org.uk