Those familiar with Polyphony’s annual sell-out performances of Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John Passion at Sinfonia Smith Square will not want to miss this special concert, which follows a performance of the same programme at the Tetbury Music Festival.
Polyphony
The Romantic English
Smith Square Hall
- Repertoire & Programme highlights
Charles Villiers Stanford Three Latin Motets
Cecilia McDowall Three Latin Motets
Gustav Holst Nunc Dimittis
Hubert Parry Songs of Farewell- Conductor
- Stephen Layton
- Duration
- 1 hour and 50 minutes including interval
- Price
Full programme
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Three Latin Motets, op. 38
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Gerald Finzi
Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, op. 17
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Shakespeare Songs
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Gustav Holst
Salve Regina
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G. Holst
The Evening Watch
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Hubert Parry
Songs of Farewell: My soul there is a country, My soul hath power, Never weather beaten sail, There is an old belief
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Cecilia McDowall
Three Latin Motets, 2004
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G. Holst
Nunc Dimittis
Polyphony’s inspirational conductor Stephen Layton has chosen a programme of the best of English choral music by Stanford, Parry, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Howells and Cecilia McDowall, performed by his hand-picked ensemble of the finest professional choral singers.
Layton’s ever-impressive choir were superb.
Bachtrack April 2023
The performances … were all superb, every note of music seemed perfectly placed.
Robert Hugill November 2022