America the beautiful
Toll Gavel United Church Toll Gavel, BeverleyWhitacre: Sing Gently
Previn: Vocalise
Beach: Piano Quintet
Songs by Knaggs, Price, Moore & Hammerstein
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Whitacre: Sing Gently
Previn: Vocalise
Beach: Piano Quintet
Songs by Knaggs, Price, Moore & Hammerstein
An exhibition of exquisite linocuts by Andrew Anderson, inspired by love poetry in the Canticles, and by East Anglian country churches, displayed in Beverley Minster during the festival.
Two major quintets bookend this glorious closing programme: Mozart’s sublime Quintet for Piano and Winds, one of the masterpieces of all the repertoire, and Schumann’s rapturous Quintet for Piano and Strings. In the middle of the programme we visit two masters of the English song repertoire: Benjamin Britten, in his deeply personal Michelangelo Sonnets, and Gerald Finzi, is his summing up of music and art, ‘To A Poet’.