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St Andrew's Church
Fore Street
Moretonhampstead
Devon
TQ13 8NN
England
Programme
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Toby Young – The Owl
Ben Nobuto – Sol
Becky McGlade – To a Skylark
Gerald Finzi – Nightingales, Op.17 no.5
Performers
Harry Baker – piano
Freddie Crowley – Conductor
Corvus Consort
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Programme Note
The voices of Corvus Consort take to the skies for a bird's-eye view of choral music, with a special guest appearance from the Whiddon Autumn Festival Children's Choir.
Under the direction of Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort presents musical depictions of nightingales, skylarks, swallows and ravens, as well as an owl and a very famous "blue bird". Works by 20th-century English masters Stanford and Finzi sit alongside music by contemporary composers Becky McGlade, Caroline Shaw and Toby Young, as well as traditional folk song arrangements.
Corvus Consort will also perform the remarkable Sol by the festival's Composer-in-Residence Ben Nobuto, an ingenious work for which Ben was awarded the prize for Best Choral Composition at the Ivors Academy Awards 2023.
