10 July 2008
- 1:10 PM
Lunchtime Concert - Chritabel Gairdner
Details to follow...
Free Admission
Retiring Collection
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12 July 2008
- 7:30 PM
Natalie Clein (cello) - Cambridge Philharmonic Society Concert
BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms - Soloist: William Oliver (Treble)
BLOCH: Schelomo - Soloist: Natalie Clein (Cello)
ELGAR: Music Makers - Soloist: Heather Shipp (Mezzo-soprano)
Conductor: Timothy Redmond
Natalie Clein is rapidly gaining an international reputation as an artist of exceptional musicality and integrity. She records exclusively for EMI Classics and her debut recording of Brahms and Schubert won her a Classical Brit for best young performer in 2005. She first came to international attention when, at the age of 16, she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 1994.
Natalie plays Bloch's 1916 masterpiece Schelomo (Hebrew for "Solomon"). It is the work which has kept his name before the public. Virtuoso cellists love to play it. The magnificence of the part, its overwhelming emotional range, is both unprecedented and unique in the cello's literature. The cellist gets the rare opportunity to play both hero and prophet. Bloch employs a huge orchestra to build great peaks of sound and yet so meticulously plans them, that the orchestra never obscures the soloist.
Bernstein said of the Chichester Psalms that they are "simple, tonal, tuneful and as pure B flat as any piece you could think of - I don't mean they are all in B flat - they are honestly what I wished to write". Written for Chichester Cathedral in 1964/5, Ely is the perfect place to perform them.
Elgar took a poem by Arthur O'Shaunessey as his libretto for the Music Makers. He felt a strong affinity with the words of the poem, identifying himself with the 'dreamer of dreams' in the first line. Accepting the autobiographical links Elgar saw in the poem, what should be more natural than that he should recall his earlier career through a series of quotations from his earlier works?
TICKETS: £25 £20, £15, (£10 unreserved) available from Ely Cathedral Box Office: 01353 660349 (Mon - Fri 11am - 3pm) and ONLINE. Tickets may be purchased up until 3.00pm on the day ready for collection
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13 July 2008
- 5:15 PM
Organ Recital - PAUL BRYAN
The 1st in Ely Cathedral's series of 'Summer Organ Recitals'
PAUL BRYAN
Programme details to follow
Free Admission
Retiring Collection
20 July 2008
- 5:15 PM
Organ Recital - JEREMY FILSELL
The 2nd in Ely Cathedral's series of 'Summer Organ Recitals'
JEREMY FILSELL
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) - Trois Préludes et Fugues Op. 7 no. 1 Si (B) majeur
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) - Prélude (1930)
Marcel Dupré - Trois Préludes et Fugues Op. 7 no. 2 Fa (F) mineur
Olivier Messiaen - Diptyque (1929)
Marcel Dupré - Trois Préludes et Fugues Op. 7 no. 3 Sol (G) mineur
Free Admission
Retiring Collection
24 July 2008
- 1:10 PM
Lunchtime Concert - Edward Taylor and James Fussy
Lunchtime Concert given by Edward Taylor (Organ) and James Fussy (Trumpet).
Free Admission
Retiring Collection
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27 July 2008
- 5:15 PM
Organ Recital - DAVID HILL
The 3rd in Ely Cathedral's series of 'Summer Organ Recitals' - IAO Presidential recital.
DAVID HILL
Programme details to follow
Tickets priced £10.00 available from the Cathedral Box Office on 01353 660349 (Mon - Fri 11am - 3pm) and ONLINE
