On Saturday 20th July, Exultate Singers will perform settings of Shakespeare texts by Vaughan Williams and Mäntyjärvi as part of the Bristol Shakespeare Festival. Conducted by David Ogden, the choir will also sing music by Britten, Elgar, Howells, MacMillan, Parry and Whitacre. For more details go to http://www.exultatesingers.org and www.bristolshakespeare.org.uk
On Sunday 19th May, Harmonia Sacra will perform a selection of choral music from eighteenth-century Rome at All Saints’ Church in Weston-super-Mare. Led by musical director Peter Leech, the choir will sing works by Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Giovanni Battista Costanzi, Sebastiano Bolis and Alessandro Scarlatti. For more details and to book tickets go to: http://www.harmoniasacra.co.uk
This Sunday, the Bristol Male Voice Choir will be joined by young violinist Julia Hwang as they perform at St. George’s Bristol in aid of BRACE, a local charity which funds medical research into Alzheimer’s and dementia. The programme includes works by Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninov. For more details and to book tickets go to: […]
On Sunday 24th March, Colston Hall hosted an ambitious performance of Mahler’s infamous ‘Symphony of a Thousand’, the first in Bristol for over 20 years. Amateur orchestra the Brunel Sinfonia were joined on stage by the Bristol Cabot Choir, Nailsea Choral Society, South Cotswold Choral Group and the choir of The Red Maids’ School, as […]
On Tuesday evening, the Bristol Ensemble was joined at Colston Hall by 30 deaf and hearing-impaired children from Elmfield School for Deaf Children, Henbury Court Primary and Oasis Academy New Oak as part of the ‘Hearing Beethoven’ project. ‘Hearing Beethoven’ began in February with a workshop run by deaf musician Paul Whittaker OBE, director of the […]
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra got off to a flying start, beginning their performance at Colston Hall with the ever popular overture from Bernstein’s Candide opera. Seemingly over in moments, Bernstein’s work was lively and energetic, requiring nimble playing by the orchestra. By contrast, Penderecki’s evocative Chaconne, next in the PRNSO’s programme, demanded great expressivity on the part […]
This Thursday, St. George’s will be hosting a whole day of events devoted to Schubert, including live performances of his works throughout the day. As well as taking part in these recitals, Wye Valley Schubert Day’s artistic director Daniel Tong will return later in the month to perform Beethoven’s fifteenth Piano Sonata. Beethoven’s work will […]
This Friday sees the start of Arnolfini’s three-day celebration of Swiss performance group Schimpfluch, whose work concerns the extreme, the disturbing and the grotesque. Alongside core Schimpfluch acts such as Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Sudden Infant, G*Park and Dave Phillips, the carnival weekend will also feature appearances by international guest artists including GX Jupitter-Larsen and Phurpa. In addition to […]
Bristol’s first performance of Hymnus Paradisi was certainly one to be remembered. Commanded by David Ogden, the City of Bristol Choir, Exultate Singers and Bristol Ensemble produced a wonderful rendition of Herbert Howells’ magnificent work at Colston Hall last Saturday. The two choirs blended very well together and, with strong support from the orchestra throughout, […]
Tomorrow night, two of Bristol’s leading choirs will join forces with the city’s professional orchestra as part of a large-scale performance at Colston Hall. Conducted by David Ogden and supported by the Bristol Ensemble, a massed choir of 140 singers from the City of Bristol Choir and Exultate Singers will perform Sir William Walton’s Belshazzar’s […]
