Repertoire for 2025 announced
Following a hugely successful 2024, plans have been confirmed for our 2025 season. We are especially delighted to have had the opportunity to co-sponsor a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, which will be the main work in our Summer Concert.
Called A Season to Sing, this joyous score marks the 300th Anniversary of Vivaldi's best-loved work. As Joanna explained: "Having loved this music since I was a young girl, I'd often had the thought that melodies as good as these deserve to be sung.
"Sourcing the poems, hymn texts and Bible passages for each mopvement was an integral part of the process. It mattered to me that the words might sound as if they could have inspired the music, even though it was the other way round. This meant matching their rhythms, rhyme schemes, phrase lengths and cadences to Vivaldi's melodies whilst simultaneously enhancing the all-important programmic depictions within the different seasons."
We are immensely proud to be one of 55 choirs around the world who co-commissioned this piece, and we look forward to the challenge of doing it justice at our concert in June.
The concert, at St James's in Dursley on Saturday 14th June, will also feature Poulenc's Gloria and Parry's I Was Glad.
