Faure - Requiem & Rutter - Feel the Spirit
Saturday 8th June 2019, 7.30 pm
Ripon Cathedral
The Amici Ensemble
Isobel Rose Soprano
Anna Burford Mezzo
Miles Taylor Bass
Andrew Padmore Conductor

Tickets for this concert are priced at £20 with £5 tickets available for students, under 16s and the unwaged.
Tickets are on sale from The Harrogate Box Office:
​Tel 01423 502116 (opening hours 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat). They are also available from the shop within Ripon Cathedral
Fauré’s Requiem is scored intimately and departs significantly from the standard liturgical text. The work includes the lyrical (and frequently sung as a solo) Pie Jesu and the transcendent In Paradisum, with its soaring vocal line and murmuring harp accompaniment. The prevailing mood is one of peacefulness and serenity, and the work has often been described, quite justly, as a Requiem without the Last Judgement.
 
By contrast Rutter’s Feel the Spirit, a cycle of seven spirituals, featuring some wonderful Mezzo solo singing is vibrant, unique and classy and highly appealing. The ending just makes-you-want-to-jump-up-and-shout-“Yeah!” 

The concert will also include three Rutter Anthems - I will Sing with the Spirit, Look at the World & For the Beauty of the Earth; and Rutter's Toccato in 7 on the organ.

An Evening of Elgar

Saturday 9th November 2019, 7.30 pm
​Royal Hall, Harrogate

The Amici Ensemble
Samantha Hay, Soprano
Gaynor Keeble, Mezzo Soprano
Andrew Padmore, Conductor

​Tickets for this concert are priced at £15 or £20
with £5 tickets available for students and IBA
under 16s free when accompanied by an adult 

Tickets will be on sale soon
from The Harrogate Box Office: ​Tel 01423 502116 (opening hours 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat) 



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Featuring three well loved works by Elgar - The Spirit of England  - written by Elgar at a time when he was greatly affected by suffering caused by the First World War he captures the sadness without becoming maudlin; Sea Pictures  - the very first work composed by Elgar after he completed his Enigma Variations which includes a song with lyrics by his wife Alice; and Music Makers - his last substantial work for choir and orchestra in which he clothes the words in unmistakable passion, and they are enhanced by the detailed and masterly orchestral comment. This will be a fine evening of great music