The Three Choirs Festival: 27-31 July

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  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132
    #1

    The Three Choirs Festival: 27-31 July

    This week the subject of Composer of the Week is not one composer, not even a group of composers, but a remarkable, unique institution lying at the heart of British musical life - a place it has occupied for 300 years.
    […]
    Today Donald meets Anthony Boden, author of a fascinating history of the festival; Dominic Jewel, Chief Executive; and Adrian Partington, Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral. Together they begin to weave together the strands of history, geography, and music that have created a legacy which continues to thrive to the present day    .
    BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, The Three Choirs Festival at 300, A Fortuitous and Friendly Proposal
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063dgkb
    The history, geography and music that have created the Three Choirs Festival's legacy.


    The lack of playlist hits worse than ever on a programme like this. What is it that they are so adamant about it?
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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920
    #2
    Monday

    Vaughan Williams: Antiphon (Five Mystical Songs). Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra/Matthew Best
    Purcell: Te Deum in D, Z232. The Temple Church Choir and Temple Players/James Vivian.
    Handel: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed (Samson). Mark Padmore, tenor (Samson), English Concert/Andrew Manze.
    James MacMillan: Sometimes, like Tobias (Sun-Dogs). Netherlands Radio Choir/Celso Antunes.
    Mendelssohn: It Is Enough (Elijah). Bryn Terfel, baritone (Elijah), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Paul Daniel.
    Elgar: The Apostles (excerpt). London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus/Richard Hickox.

    Tuesday

    Byrd: Sing Joyfully. Hereford Cathedral Choir/Geraint Bowen.
    Delius: Dance Rhapsody No 1. Royal Philharmonic/Thomas Beecham.
    SS Wesley: O Give Thanks unto the Lord. Philippa Boyle (soprano), James McVinnie (organ), Choir of Clare College Cambridge/Christopher Robinson
    Finzi: Dies Natalis. Wilfred Brown (tenor), English Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Finzi.

    Wednesday

    RR Bennett: Sea Change (The Isle Is Full of Noises). Cambridge Singers/John Rutter.
    Elgar: Overture (Froissart, Op 19). English Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones.
    Vaughan Williams: Love bade me welcome (Five Mystical Songs). John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra/David Willcocks.
    Judith Weir: Love bade me welcome (Two Human Hymns). Annie Lydford (organ), Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge/Geoffrey Webber
    Sumsion: They that go down to the sea in ships. Adrian Partington (organ), Choir of Worcester Cathedral/Donald Hunt.
    Elgar: The Kingdom (excerpt from Act 4). Yvonne Minton (contralto), London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic/Adrian Boult.

    Thursday

    Gurney: Since I Believe in God the Father. Choir of Gloucester Cathedral/Adrian Partington.
    Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor, Op 33. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Grant Llewellyn.
    Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. London Philharmonic/Roger Norrington.
    Howells: Sanctus (Hymnus Paradisi). April Cantelo (soprano), David Johnson (tenor), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic/Donald Hunt
    Rosalind Ellicott: A Reverie. Joseph Spooner (cello), Michael Jones (piano).

    Friday

    Stanford: The Train. Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir/Paul Spicer.
    Ethel Smyth: Kyrie (Mass in D). Plymouth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Philip Brunelle.
    Thomas Linley junior: Let God Arise. Andrew Dale Forbes (bass), Holst Singers, The Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman.
    Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (conclusion). Heddle Nash, tenor (Gerontius), Gladys Ripley, contralto (The Angel), Huddersfield Choral Society, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Malcolm Sargent.

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    • Eine Alpensinfonie
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 20572
      #3
      Surely it would have been more appropriate to concentrate excerpts from actual TCF recordings in this week's COTW?

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      • Pulcinella
        Host
        • Feb 2014
        • 11062
        #4
        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
        Surely it would have been more appropriate to concentrate excerpts from actual TCF recordings in this week's COTW?
        Or on commissions/first performances (though some of these were)?

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        • EdgeleyRob
          Guest
          • Nov 2010
          • 12180
          #5
          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          Surely it would have been more appropriate to concentrate excerpts from actual TCF recordings in this week's COTW?
          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
          Or on commissions/first performances (though some of these were)?
          Yes,but still a nice playlist for lunch break listening.

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