Concerts
BRITTEN SINFONIA AND BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS
Performers
- Ella Taylor
- soprano
- Felix Kemp
- baritone
- Brighton Festival Chorus
- Adam Hickox
- conductor (for Dona Nobis Pacem
- Britten Sinfonia
- Thomas Gould
- violin / director
Programme
- Vaughan Williams
- The Lark Ascending
- Bridge
- There is a willow grows aslant a brook
- Joseph Phibbs
- Flame and Shadow (world premiere)
- Vaughan Williams
- Dona Nobis Pacem
Interval
Two of Vaughan Williams' most loved works, and a premiere by Joseph Phibbs.
Britten Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus perform Vaughan Williams' 1936 mass calling for world peace, written at a time when Europe was already facing the prospect of WWI's horrors being repeated.