I Fagiolini: Long, Long Ago
Sat 13 Dec 7:30pm
Sat 13 Dec 7:30pm
Robert Hollingworth
director
I Fagiolini
ensemble
Bath Camerata
ensemble
Wiltshire Music Centre
Wiltshire Music Centre Ashley Road Bradford-on-Avon UK
01225 860 100
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Contemplative and atmospheric festive concert with innovative vocal ensemble I Fagiolini and Bath Camerata
HOWELLS Four Carol Anthems
BENEVOLI Missa Benevola for four choirs
BO HOLTEN First snow
DYLAN THOMAS A child’s Christmas in Wales
A Christmas choral concert with a difference: Herbert Howell’s four ‘Carol Anthems’ – inspired by a British WWII’s POW’s poem – are woven into a four-choir mass by Roman master Benevoli. I Fagiolini brings its signature musical storytelling to the stage, alongside leading local choir, Bath Camerata.
Watch I Fagiolini perform
I Fagiolini is internationally renowned for its genuinely innovative productions and outstanding musicianship. Returning to WMC after recent sell-out performances, ‘Angels and Demons’ and ‘Shaping the Invisible’, they present a Christmas choral concert with a difference alongside leading local chamber choir Bath Camerata.
‘Long, Long, Ago’ is inspired by the poem of a British prisoner of war written eighty years ago, set by Herbert Howells. His classic four ‘Carol-Anthems’ are woven into a four-choir mass by Roman master Benevoli. Mulled into this mixture, the comic but poignant spoken word of Dylan Thomas’ magical ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ and to finish, the serene ‘First Snow’ by Danish composer, Bo Holten.
The group are musical shapeshifters, following Hollingworth's giddy, eclectics imagination wherever it leads
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