Isaac Shieh horn

Verity Hall soprano

Guillem León Vivas piano

Hannah Runting harp

Jessica Anderson trombone

Programme:

HANNAH RUNTING Am I asking too much

MOZART Der Hölle Rache

THÉA DEACON Perpetual Duality

GEORGIA SCOTT Ghost in the Machine

TOSHIO HOSOKAWA Two Japanese Folk Songs

LLOYD COLEMAN Sgraffito

CLARKE transc HANNAH RUNTING/ JESSICA ANDERSON I’ll bid my heart be still

GUILLEM LEÓN VIVAS Spanish Songs

A dragon is terrorizing the Yorkshire countryside, devouring anything it meets. The only person who can save the locals is a drunken squire – if he can put down his pint. He agrees, but just as daunting as his monstrous opponent is the love triangle that ensues. Will the dragon prevail? And who will get their man? 

The Dragon of Wantley, the 1737 smash hit of the London season, parodies Handel’s serious operas – as well as poking fun at the government of the day. The combination of Lampe’s first-rate music (of which Handel himself approved) and wonderfully witty libretto by Henry Carey makes this opera a comic gem.

Don’t miss the rare chance to see this masterpiece of English comic opera performed with a traditional period orchestra as New Sussex Opera sets the opera in a South Yorkshire of the 1980’s (against the background of the miners’ strike). The recent recording of THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY from the Brook Street Band and conductor John Andrews won BBC Music Magazine 2023 Award in Opera. 

Conductor Toby Purser and director Paul Higgins join forces again following their success with Stanford’s The Travelling Companion for New Sussex Opera, which was nominated for an International Opera Award, with what was a world première recording released on the SOMM label.

New Sussex Opera Chorus

Bellot Ensemble

Toby Purser, conductor

Paul Higgins, director

Mollie Cheek, designer

Emma Gasson, lighting

Benjamin Poore, dramaturg

Cast includes:

Ana Beard Fernández

Charlotte Badham

Magnus Walker

Robert Gildon

Repertoire:

Stewart Goodyear: Life, Life, Life (c.10-16m) 

Hector Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatra (c. 21m)

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José Mauricio Nunes Garcia: Requiem (c. 35m)

Josy Santos, soprano

Anshelma Idunna Münch, mezzo soprano

Zwakele Tschabalala, tenor

Roderick Williams, baritone

Andrew Grams, conductor

A dragon is terrorizing the Yorkshire countryside, devouring anything it meets. The only person who can save the locals is a drunken squire – if he can put down his pint. He agrees, but just as daunting as his monstrous opponent is the love triangle that ensues. Will the dragon prevail? And who will get their man? 

The Dragon of Wantley, the 1737 smash hit of the London season, parodies Handel’s serious operas – as well as poking fun at the government of the day. The combination of Lampe’s first-rate music (of which Handel himself approved) and wonderfully witty libretto by Henry Carey makes this opera a comic gem.

Don’t miss the rare chance to see this masterpiece of English comic opera performed with a traditional period orchestra as New Sussex Opera sets the opera in a South Yorkshire of the 1980’s (against the background of the miners’ strike). The recent recording of THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY from the Brook Street Band and conductor John Andrews won BBC Music Magazine 2023 Award in Opera. 

Conductor Toby Purser and director Paul Higgins join forces again following their success with Stanford’s The Travelling Companion for New Sussex Opera, which was nominated for an International Opera Award, with what was a world première recording released on the SOMM label.

New Sussex Opera Chorus

Bellot Ensemble

Toby Purser, conductor

Paul Higgins, director

Mollie Cheek, designer

Emma Gasson, lighting

Benjamin Poore, dramaturg

Cast includes:

Ana Beard Fernández

Charlotte Badham

Magnus Walker

Robert Gildon

Demonstrating the huge influence of Bach and Handel who Mozart was studying at the time, his Great Mass in C minor is regarded by many to be one of his greatest works. Reflecting the pomp and solemnity which was characteristic at the time in Salzburg where it was first performed, it is a masterpiece in the realms of mass settings across the centuries.

Bach’s incredible Magnificat for so many lovers of his choral music is his finest work, and without doubt the most dramatic and intensely beautiful of any setting of this text. As virtuosic and almost acrobatic in writing for the singers, as it is tender and sublime in its beauty, it is simply Bach at his finest!

Generously co-sponsored by Braunston Marina and Derek and Rosemary Holding 

Armonico Consort & Baroque Players

Christopher Monks, director

Demonstrating the huge influence of Bach and Handel who Mozart was studying at the time, his Great Mass in C minor is regarded by many to be one of his greatest works. Reflecting the pomp and solemnity which was characteristic at the time in Salzburg where it was first performed, it is a masterpiece in the realms of mass settings across the centuries.

Bach’s incredible Magnificat for so many lovers of his choral music is his finest work, and without doubt the most dramatic and intensely beautiful of any setting of this text. As virtuosic and almost acrobatic in writing for the singers, as it is tender and sublime in its beauty, it is simply Bach at his finest!

Generously co-sponsored by Braunston Marina and Derek and Rosemary Holding 

Armonico Consort & Baroque Players

Christopher Monks, director

Repertoire: 

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Geirr Tveitt: Concerto no. 2, Three Fjords

Sakamoto: Still Life from Playing the Orchestra

Sakamoto: Bibo no Aozora from Babel

Sakamoto: Happy End

Debussy: La Mer

Conductor: Adam Hickox

Hardanger Fiddle: Ragnhild Hemsing

Piano: Joanna MacGregor

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme:

Mozart: Serenade No. 12 for winds in c minor K. 388/384a

Beethoven: Wind Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 131

Encore: Schubert Wind Octet D. 72 (Minuetto Allegretto - Trio II)

Polipetti

Angelika Stangl and Andrés Gabriel Villalobos-Lépiz, oboe

Hugo Lau and Władysław Lech, clarinet

Emily Dore and Fergus Butt, bassoon

Samuel Middleton and Isaac Shieh, horn

Century vs Herga

As part of Southbank Centre’s South Asian Sounds

Chineke! Orchestra

Repertoire:

Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region

Elgar: Orchestral Songs Op. 48, 59 & 60

Howells: Hymnus Paradisi

Rebecca Hardwick, soprano

Emily Gray, mezzo

Elgan Llyr Thomas, tenor

Ronald Corp, conductor

New London Orchestra

Programme:

Tristen J. T. Watts: Overture in B flat major (Majestiqué) (world premiere) (15 mins)

Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in C (Organ Symphony) (36 mins)

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Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony No 1 in A minor (35 mins)

William Campbell, organ

Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor

Chineke! Orchestra

Repertoire:

Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time

Rylan Gleave: Straylight

Arvo Pärt: Fratres

Charles Hazlewood, conductor

Paraorchestra

Repertoire:

Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time

Rylan Gleave: Straylight

Arvo Pärt: Fratres

Charles Hazlewood, conductor

Paraorchestra

Repertoire:

Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time

Rylan Gleave: Straylight

Arvo Pärt: Fratres

Charles Hazlewood, conductor

Paraorchestra

Programme:

Britten: Prelude to Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op. 31 (1943) (2’)

Gallay: Prelude No. 32 (1830) (2’)

Fujikura: ele (2021) (5’)

Gallay: Caprice No. 2 (1835) (3’)

Mason: In the Garden of a Museum (2022) (7’)

Gallay: Prelude No. 22 (1830) (2’)

Sun: Chuān II (2022) (8’)

Bellini: i capuleti e i montecchi Act 1 Scene 4 Horn Solo (1830) (1’) - Encore

Century vs Cambridge Park

Middlesex vs Berkshire

Century vs Lawns IBC

Repertoire:

Suppe: Morning Noon and Night in Vienna

Strauss: Mein Herr Marquis

Strauss: Tales from the Vienna Woods

Strauss: Trisch Trasch Polka

Lehar: Vilya

Strauss: Gypsy Baron March

Korngold: Straussiana Waltzes

Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltzes

Zeller: Roses in Tyrol

Farnon: Westminster Waltz

Strauss: Memories of Covent Garden

Strauss: Pizzicato Polka

Lehar: Meine Lippen

Strauss: Blue Danube Waltzes

Loewe: I Could Have Danced (Encore)

Strauss: Radetzky March (Encore)

Stephen Bell, conductor

Ellie Laugharne, soprano

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra