23-31 Jul 1993
Works performed:
Britten: War Requiem; Howells: Two Madrigals; Moeran: Songs of Springtime; Pratt: With the Drawing of this Love; Holst: My Sweetheart's like Venus; Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana; Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans; Judith Bingham: The Past is a Strange Land Five Cheshire Ghosts; Bax: from Five Greek Folk Songs; Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied; Schumann: Dichterliebe; Holst: A Moorside Suite; Bach: Ricercare a 3 from the Musical Offering; Beethoven: Sonata in D 'Pastorale'; Shostakovich: Preludes and Fuges for solo piano; Schubert: Menuett and Finale; Mozart: Serenade in E flat; Schubert: String Quartet in C major; Mozart: Piano quartet in E flat; Brahms: Sonata in A major; Mozart: Violin Sonata in E minor; among many other works
Venue:
Chester Cathedral; Nantwich Parish Church, Chester, England; Nantwich, England
Performers:
Richard Hickox (conductor); Paul Spicer (conductor); Suzanne Murphy (soprano); Adrian Thompson (tenor); Stephen Roberts (baritone); BBC Philharmonic; Finzi Singers; Festival Chorus; Liverpool Cathedral Choiristers
Further information:
The majority of the listed perfomers and works are from the performance of War Requiem and the concert by the Finzi Singers. This Festival saw the first performance of Bingham's 'The Past is a Strange Land Five Cheshire Ghosts'. The front of the programme has been annotated 'War Requiem See p. 9'.
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Archive
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