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‘Sometimes richly tonal, sometimes more exploratory in harmonic range, her music is always full of invention…’
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Choir of King’s College, London
Patrick Allies, conductor
Service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Veni, Creator Spiritus
Cecilia McDowall: Missa Marie
Cecilia McDowall: Celebration
James Gilchrist tenor
Rowan Pierce soprano
Ben Goldscheider horn
Choir of King’s College, London
Presteigne Festival Orchestra
George Vass conductor
Adrian Williams Concerto for string orchestra
Cameron Biles-Liddell Erlid (A Chase), for chamber orchestra | World premiere
Grace Williams The Dancers
Michael Zev Gordon The Gleam of Hidden Skies
Cecilia McDowall Bird of Time
Swedish radio Choir
Marc Korovich, conductor
Ami-Louise Johnsson, viola
Concert to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Rowan Pierce soprano
Imogen Whitehead trumpet
Jonathan Gunthorpe narrator
Alexander Knox The Soldier
Alex Wilson The Devil
Presteigne Festival Ensemble
Ruth Evans director
George Vass conductor
Cecilia McDowall The Night Trumpeter
Lillie Harris The aspens talk of rain | World premiere
Igor Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale
Works for mixed chamber ensemble by Cecilia McDowall and Lillie Harris share this programme with Stravinsky’s pioneering music theatre work. Premiered in 1918 and conceived in collaboration with the Swiss writer C F Ramuz, the piece is based on a Russian folk tale, The Runaway Soldier and the Devil.
Exon Singers
Joseph Judge, Artistic Director and Conductor
Programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Lonely Hearts
1. Autumn Migration
2. Night Garden
3. Would like to meet…
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Charlotte Bowden, soprano
Olivia Ray, soprano
Mark Padmore, tenor
John Savournin, bass
Philharmonia Orchestra
Samuel Hudson, conductor
Programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: A Song for St Cecilia (premiere in a new version for two trumpets and strings)
Rain, steam and speed
A sacred masterpiece – Beethoven’s radiant Mass in C speaks from the heart and is a beautiful, deeply personal contemplation of the divine. The intimate feel and yearning of the music is unusually moving and reflects Beethoven’s desire for the focus of the work to be on the human experience of being in church, rather than on an all-powerful God. Two vivid pieces by Cecilia McDowall, including her joyful A Song for St Cecilia, and Rubbra’s expressive Sinfonia da camera complete the programme of this impassioned concert.
Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir
Roderick Williams, baritone
Philharmonia Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
in anticipation of the forthcoming 200th anniversary of Gloucester Docks, experience the majesty of the sea in tonight’s dramatic concert from the Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir and Philharmonia Orchestra. Feel the rolling swell of the Atlantic in Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and marvel at the sometimes peaceful, sometimes stormtossed waves evoked in Elgar’s ravishing Sea Pictures. Listen as the storm subsides into calm waters in Cecilia McDowall’s beautiful Ave Maris Stella and set sail with the British Navy in Stanford’s expressive Songs of the Fleet. The rich voice of renowned baritone Roderick Williams will deftly conjure the sea’s many moods, from tranquil to turbulent, from angry to awe-inspiring.
BBC Singers
Guy Johnston, cello
David Dunnett, organ
Ashley Grote, conductor
Concert to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Standing as I do before God
Cecilia McDowall: Church bells beyond the stars
Genesis Sixteen Concert
Eamonn Dougan, conductor
Concert to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Such Splendor
The London Welsh Chorale
Dr Edward-Rhys Harry, conductor