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William Hayes revived at 3 Choirs Festival
8 August 2010
William Hayes will be returning to his home city
in August as part of the Three Choirs Festival when our new CD of his
music will be launched. Our programme will also include music by Arne
in his tercentenary year, and their honorary mentor, George Frederick
Handel. Evelyn Tubb will be our guest soprano soloist.
St David’s Festival
May 26
9, 2010
The Corellis will be making a third consecutive
visit to the St Davids Festival in May to join forces with the
Cathedral under their Director of Music Alexander Mason. Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater is on the menu (with Natalie Clifton-Griffths, soprano)
and Bach’s Ich habe genug.
Music in Gloucester
March 2010
A busy time in the cathedral: March 13 sees a
concert of Part 2 of Handel’s Messiah with the Cathedral choir
under Adrian Partington interspersed by mediations by John Newton.
March 20 is Gloucester Choral Society’s St Matthew Passion with
James Gilchrist as evangelist. And an early start on March 21 to
accompany the Cathedral Choir again in a Mozart Mass for the morning
Eucharist. 8.30am for a rehearsal is rather early!
William Hayes in the can
February 2010
Four fun days spent in Cheltenham rehearsing and
recording music by William Hayes, ex-Gloucester chorister and Professor
of Music at Oxford. All of the music is recorded here for the first
time, and includes two cantatas (with Evelyn Tubb), two concerti
grossi, the harpsichord concerto and a very fine trio sonata. Grateful
thanks to our excellent engineer Paul Arden-Taylor of Dinmore Records,
and to the owners of a very fine C18th-century harpsichord which was
kindly loaned for the occasion.
Standing ovation in Warwick
22 December 2009
A new venture for the Corellis and Glevum Consort
took our annual candlelit Messiah performance to St Nicholas Church in
Warwick. The audience paid us a huge honour in all standing for the
applause at the end, and many wrote in to say how much they had enjoyed
the performance. Many thanks to our audience! We’ll be back!
B minor mass at the 3 Choirs Festival
10 August 2009
We’re delighted to be accompanying the
Rodolphus Choir under their conductor Ralph Allwood in a performance
Bach’s B minor Mass as part of the Three Choirs 2009. Tewkesbury
Abbey is the venue for this afternoon concert.
St David’s Festival
May 26, 2009
The Corellis will be making a return visit to the
St Davids Festival in May to join forces with the Cathedral under their
Director of Music Alexander Mason. This year’s programme
celebrates musical anniversaries with music by Handel (Nisi Dominus,
Watermusic Suite in F and two Coronation Anthems) and Haydn (‘Farewell
Symphony’).
Emma Kirkby sings Bach
22 May, 2009
World-renowned soprano Emma Kirkby joins the
Corellis once more at the Pump Room in Cheltenham to sing Bach. Further
details on the ‘Pittville Series’ tab.
Gloucestershire composers ...
10 March 2009
Steve Bailey - our principal trumpeter - will be
playing a concerto by the Gloucester-born Capel Bond at the Pittville
Pump Room on March 10. William Hayes, another former chorister at
Gloucester Cathedral will be represented in our ‘Fans of Corelli’
programme.
Monteverdi Vespers
7 March, 2009
Once again we join the Bristol Cathedral Concert
Choir. The Cathedral’s Director of Music, Mark Lee, will be at
the helm.
Back at the Pump Room
August 2008
The Corellis have a new a new series of concerts
ready for the 2008/09 season. As ever lots of interesting and unusual
music, and we are delighted to be able to welcome back Emma Kirkby to
Pittville. Click on the link on the menu bar for more details.
Corelli on telly
December 24, 2007
Members of the Corelli Orchestra played in the
live BBC1 broadcast of Midnight Mass from Worcester Cathedral on
December 24. Accompanying the cathedral choir, they performed extracts
from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit.
