A MUSICAL CELEBRATION The Annual St Beornwald’s-tide concert Chamber music and songs by MOZART, POULENC and others Saturday 7 December, 2024 7.00pm St Mary’s Church, Bampton, Oxfordshire OX18 2LZ Tickets: £20 (£10 for under-18s), from 01993 851142 or https://bamptonopera.org/booking.htm
Bampton Classical Opera presents their annual concert of the festive season in commemoration of the village's patron Saint Beornwald. The eclectic programme of music is based around two majestic works by Mozart and Poulenc for piano and wind, played by artistic director Jeremy Gray and the wind instruments of the Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera.
Mozart’s beautiful quintet, for an unusual scoring, was considered by the composer at the time to be ‘the best thing I have written in my life’. Poulenc’s trio, his first major chamber work, is noted for its depth of feeling, with touches of Mozartian flavour and echoes of other composers’ styles yet retaining its youthful verve.
Kieron-Connor Valentine and André Bertoncini, prize-winners in the 2023 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition, join us with songs and arias by the same composers as well as a foray into some contrasting light music, including some Welsh songs.
Poulenc
Mozart
‘Son Reo L’error Confesso’
‘Gia dagli occhi il velo e tolto’
Rhys Jones
T Osborne Roberts Y Gwanwyn Du
Alain Boublil/
Claude-Michel Schoenberg
Jake Heggie/
Frederica von Stade
INTERVAL
Poulenc
Amanda McBroom Calon Lan / The Rose
Charlie Chaplin Smile (from ‘Modern Times’)
Irving Berlin
W A Mozart Quintet in E flat major for piano and wind
(programme order may change)