Events Diary: Past Events

A review of the past year’s performances of Berkeley works

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July 2016

SUNDAY 3

JULY

5.30pm: Choral Evensong

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (op. 99)

St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London

THURSDAY 7

JULY

5.00pm: Evensong

A Festival Anthem (op. 21 part 2)

Includes 'O that I once past changing were' from 'A Festival Anthem' (op. 21/2)

St. Alban's Cathedral, St. Alban's

MONDAY 11

JULY

Budleigh Music Festival

Quintet (op. 90)

Performed by the Pleyel Ensemble, Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Harvey Davies (piano), Laurence Davies (horn) & Janet Hilton (clarinet)

Also works by Mozart, Poulenc (Sextet, performed by the Pleyel Ensemble and Jonathan Rimmer, flute) and Madeleine Dring. Tickets £17, Box Office Tel. 01395 445275.

Temple Methodist Church, Budleigh Salterton, Devon

SUNDAY 17

JULY

11.00am: Eucharist

Missa Brevis (op. 57)

Chichester Cathedral, Chichester

3.00pm: Berkeleys in Cheltenham

BBC Radio 3 presenter and President of the Lennox Berkeley Society Petroc Trelawny introduces the 4.00pm Stabat Mater concert with Michael Berkeley - like his father, no stranger to Cheltenham. Lennox had many pieces performed in the town over the years and was Festival President from 1975-1982, while Michael was Festival Director from 1995-2004.

Pittville Pump Room, Pittville Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Box office: Cheltenham Festivals
Tel: 01242 227979

4.00pm: Lennox Berkeley's Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater (op. 28)

Performed by the Marian Consort and The Berkeley Ensemble cond. David Wordsworth. Also works by Ravel, Poulenc, Michael Berkeley and Colin Matthews. Supported by the Music Reprieval Trust and the Williams Church Music Trust. Tickets £15 + transaction fee.

Pittville Pump Room, Pittville Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Box office: Cheltenham Festivals
Tel: 01242 227979

WEDNESDAY 20

JULY

4.42am: Through The Night

BBC Radio 3

Flute Sonata (op. 93 part 2, by Francis Poulenc, orchestrated by LB)

Performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Emmanuel Pahud (flute)

5.02am

BBC Radio 3

Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (op. 14 part 2)

Performed by Malcolm Martineau (piano) & Robin Tritschler (tenor)

SUNDAY 31

JULY

11.00am: Choral Eucharist

Missa Brevis (op. 57)

St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London