Parish Music Concerts in 2010

Ivor Gurney: Composer and Poet of the Severn and Somme.

An illustrated talk by Anthony Boden Saturday 20 March 2010 Alstone 8pm

Anthony Boden’s talk on the extraordinary life and work of Gloucester-born Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), will include recorded examples of Gurney’s music and readings of his verse. Gurney, who studied composition under Stanford at the Royal College of Music from 1911, was wounded and gassed during the First World War and was committed to an asylum in 1922. Following long years of neglect, he is now recognised as one of this country’s finest composers of song and a poet of striking individuality.

Anthony Boden has a particular interest in British music and literature. Following a career in the medical services of the Royal Air Force he was appointed Administrator of the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, a post he held from 1989 until 1999. In 1995 he became founding Chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society and in 2001 a Trustee of the Ivor Gurney Estate. He has lived in Gloucestershire since 1975.

All the proceeds from this event will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

The Corelli Ensemble - Haydn at Home Saturday 10 April 2010 Teddington 8pm

The Corelli Ensemble makes a welcome return to Parish Music. Warwick Cole, square piano, Ben Sansom, violin, and David Hatcher, cello and viola da gamba, will play music from Haydn’s time in London during the 1790s, using a piano of the period. Works by Haydn (London PianoTrios in Amajor and G major, “Gypsy Rondo”), Clementi (Monferrinas), Lidl (Viola da Gamba trios), and Dussek make up their programme.

Corelli Concerts began when Warwick Cole founded the Corelli Orchestra, named in honour of Archangelo Corelli, the 17th century Italian composer and violinist. Now specialising in period-instrument performance, the Corelli Orchestra provides groups of various sizes for concerts in Cheltenham and further afield. Central to the Corelli’s ethos is a commitment to vibrant, engaging performances and a desire to explore to the full the still untapped riches of 18th century music.

The Glevum Consort - Music from Spain and Italy Saturday 15 May 2010 Overbury 8pm

The eight singers of the Glevum Consort will perform an exciting programme of Spanish and Italian sacred music from the 16th and 17th centuries. The composers include Monteverdi, Gabrielli, Palestrina (Missa Papae Marcelli), Victoria and Lobo.

The consort is Gloucester’s new professional chamber choir, founded in 2006 with singers drawn exclusively from the local area. It is a versatile group, unique in the West Country, and performs a diverse range of music for a variety of occasions. It has collaborated very successfully with the Corelli Orchestra in concerts of Handel and Bach.

The director and founder of the consort, James Atherton, is an experienced consort singer and soloist with a passion for church music making, who joined Gloucester’s world-renowned cathedral choir in 2005. He enjoys creating carefully chosen and appealing programmes which draw on his many musical skills.