Choir of the Earth presents: Summer School 2022 CONCERT PERFORMANCE - Whitacre, Opera and The Lark

On Wednesday 19 October 2022, we premiered the selection of pieces we learned and recorded in our Summer School 2022 course. Conducted by Ben England BEM with videography by Marc Siese.

PROGRAMME

0:00 Backstage chat
4:32 Welcome and introduction

- Part One -

8:47 Beginning of the Concert Performance

9:17 Mascagni: Easter Hymn
14:28 Gilbert & Sullivan: Behold the Lord High Executioner
17:08 Gilbert & Sullivan: Three Little Maids
19:26 Gilbert & Sullivan: Major General’s Song
23:58 Purcell: With Drooping Wings

31:05 Vaughan Williams (arr. Drayton): The Lark Ascending

45:11 INTERVAL (Choir headshots)

- Part Two -

Five Pieces by Eric Whitacre:
57:02 Lux Aurumque
1:01:17 Glow (apologies for the video skipping here - you can hear the piece uninterrupted over the credits)
1:03:46 Goodnight Moon
1:08:32 The Seal Lullaby
1:12:38 Sleep

1:20:48 Grand Finale: Puccini (arr Gowers): Nessun Dorma

1:24:23 Thanks
1:30:25 Credits

Violin (The Lark Ascending): Charles Mutter
Piano (on Whitacre tracks): Richard Gowers
Piano (on Opera tracks) : Christopher Gould
Major-General: Philip Blake-Jones
Lord High Executioner: Ben England BEM
Whitacre and Lark soloists from Fieri Consort

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