Dates

Festival Dates 2007: 10 - 19 May

TWENTY-FOURTH CHELMSFORD CATHEDRAL FESTIVAL

10 - 19 MAY 2007

Booking information : the Advance Booking Brochure is available at the Festival Office, Guy Harlings, New Street, Chelmsford, CM1 1AT (telephone 01245 359890, fax 01245 280456,

email: festival @chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk).

New Friends of the Festival are always welcome and those wishing to take advantage of priority booking may still become Friends or Patrons by applying to the Festival Administrator at the Festival Office.

For full details please visit the Festival website:www.chelmsfordfestival.org.uk

Main Programme Summary

Saturday 12 May

The Chelmsford Sinfonietta

A brilliant newly formed professional orchestra for Chelmsford presenting a popular programme of orchestral music:

Rossini Overture – The Italian Girl in Algiers

Beethoven Triple Concerto

Elgar Serenade for Strings

Mendelssohn Italian Symphony (No.4)

Sunday 13 May

The King’s Singers

Robert Carver Sanctus

William Cornyshe Ave Maria

David peebles Si quis diligit

Anonymous All sons of Adam

Francis Poulenc Quatre petites priers de Saint Francois d’Assise

Richard Rodney Sermons and Devotions

Bennett

Gerald Finzi My spirit sang all day

I have loved flowers that fade

Stanley Wilson To a lady seen from the train

Trrad. arr. C V Quick! We have but a second

Stanford

Arthur Sullivan The long day closes

Monday 14 May

The Endellion Quartet Sam West

In this, the l50th anniversary of Elgar’s birth, the Endellion String Quartet plays music of Elgar and Britten intertwined with the poetry of WH Auden read by star of stage and TV, Sam West.

Beethoven Op. 18 No 3

Britten String Quartet no. 3

Elgar Quartet

Tuesday l5 May

The Unknown Elgar – A sequicentennial special! With David Owen Norris (piano) and Amanda Pitt (soprano)

In Smyrna

O soft was the song

Dry those fair, those crystal eyes

The Pipes of Pan

Four Improvisations (ll-5)

Come, Gentle Night

The Wind at Dawn

Concert Allegro

Wednesday 16 May

The Kings Consort

Purcell at the Chapel Royal is the title of the programme including many of the glorious extended works of Henry Purcell for voices and instruments.

Verse anthem I will give thanks unto thee O lord

Anthem Let mine eyes run down with tears

Elegy O dive custos

Verse Anthem Rejoice in the Lord always

Verse Anthem It is a good thing to give thanks

Devotional Song Jehova quam multi sunt hostes

Anthem Remember not, Lord, our offences

Verse anthem Praise the Lord O Jerusalem

Thursday l7 May

Michael Fish will talk on Global Warming. (Writtle College).(Limited availability so not open to choice)

Friday 18 May

Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson

A welcome return by Stacey Kent with partner Jim Tomlinson and quartet presenting the best of cabaret and jazz as part of a European Tour of The Lyric this spring.

Saturday 19 May

London Festival Opera

Highlights from Mozart’s Magic Flute and other opera favourites

Featuring works of Verdi, Bizet, Strauss and Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Festival is supported by a strong Programme of community events, featuring matinee concerts in local churches, beer, whisky and wine tastings, Waterstone’s Literary Lunch, and entertainment by local amateur and school groups at various venues in the town. On the final Saturday morning in the Cathedral, Colchester Voiceworks Academy and Chelmsford Youth Choir will join Billericay and Sandon senior school choirs to lead a massed choir of primary school children singing about creatures from an English country garden (some 200 children in all).

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