As part of its 10th Anniversary celebrations, ORA Singers & Suzi Digby OBE return to St Martin-in-the-Fields with a new programme – Spirit of Place – exploring themes of time, memory and how place shapes one’s identity.
The programme is built around three key works by a trio of our greatest living choral composers: The Lost Words by James Burton, setting the spell-poems of Robert MacFarlane, Five Childhood Lyrics by Sir John Rutter, and a major new commission by Gabriel Jackson – an 8-minute a cappella piece taking its inspiration from The Fens.
The concert opens with another work by Jackson, his setting of To Morning by William Blake, which leads into a folksong from The Fens arranged by Michael Tippett. There are a series of choral folksong arrangements scattered throughout, alongside reflective gems such as Herbert Howell’s Even such is time and Samuel Barber’s little-known but gorgeous To be sung on the water.
Additional Info
Date: Friday 15 May
Time: 7pm
Running Time: 1 hour 15 minutes with no interval
Tickets: £10, £16, £25, £30, £35, £45
“ORA Singers’ achievement in commissioning and performing 100 new compositions from an impressively wide range of composers must be unprecedented in the entire history of music. It has been an extraordinarily imaginative and generous gift to the composers, and indeed to choirs and audiences everywhere.”
Sir John Rutter
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Britten A New Year’s Carol (with piano)
Gabriel Jackson To Morning
Traditional (arr Tippett) Lillibulero
James Burton The Lost Words suite (with piano)
Barber To be sung on the water
Charles Villiers Stanford On Time
Howells Even such is time
Delius To be sung on a summer night on the water No. 1
Traditional (arr Warlock; adapted Cecil Armstrong Gibbs) Yarmouth Fair
John Rutter Five Childhood Lyrics
Morten Lauridsen Sure on this shining night (with piano) -
ORA Singers
Suzi Digby director
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St Martin-in-the-Fields
ORA Singers: Spirit of Place
Friday 15 MayORA Singers & Suzi Digby OBE return to St Martin-in-the-Fields with an exquisite new programme and two new commissions, by James Burton and Gabriel Jackson.
| Fri 15 May | 7 pm | £10, £16, £25, £30, £35, £45 | Book |