Performers:
Barnes Choir
Julian Collings, conductor

Soloists:
Lisa Swayne – soprano
Beth Moxon – mezzo soprano
Rory Carver – tenor
James Geidt – bass

English Sinfonietta

Programme:
Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Will Todd – Songs of Magical Creatures
Eric Whitacre – Cloudburst
Elgar arr. Fraser – Sea Pictures

Event summary:
The Barnes Choir brings together a glorious selection of texts from Shakespeare to Octavio Paz in a magical choral journey exploring the themes of love, music and nature. Vaughan Williams’ celebrated setting of a passage from The Merchant of Venice is contrasted with Will Todd’s appropriately colourful choral suite, whilst Donald Fraser’s arrangement of Elgar’s Sea Pictures brings a new perspective to a perennial favourite. Crowning the programme is Eric Whitacre’s ‘celebration of the unleashed kinetic energy in all things’.