The 2010 Festival has now taken place but the programme remains viewable on the website to give you some idea of the scope of this important annual event.
Next year's Festival will take place from Friday 27 May to Sunday 5 June 2011. Full details will be published early next year and will be posted here when they become available.
Programme for the 2010 St Davids Cathedral Festival
28 May - 6 June 2010
Festival Launch
2.00 pm Educational Workshop & Rehearsal
A fun afternoon of music making, involving children from local primary schools and from schools in Swansea and Cardiff.
6.00 pm Launch Concert -20th Anniversary Celebration of The Farms for City Children, Treginnis
Children’s Festival Chorus, the Cathedral Choristers and the Cathedral Boys’ Choir
Medley concert, folksongs, excerpts from Adiemus and contemporary
songs.
Tickets: £6 Children 16 and under free
7.00 pm St Davids Cathedral Choir and The Corelli Orchestra
Natalie Clifton-Griffith soprano
Alexander Mason conductor
The Cathedral Choir joins forces with the Corelli Orchestra once again to perform Pergolesi’s sublime meditation on the death of Christ, Stabat Mater and J.S. Bach’s Cantata 147. The programme also includes J.S.Bach’s Ich habe genug with soloist Natalie Clifton-Griffith and the ever popular Orchestral Suite no. 2.
Tickets: £20, £13 and £8 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by
The Dean & Chapter of St Davids Cathedral,
St Davids City Council and
Alan & Gwyneth Hayward
11.15 am Choral Eucharist
Bairstow Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Briggs Truro Eucharist
Schubert Where thou reignest
Briggs Missa pro defunctis (Finale)
6.00 pm Choral Evensong
Tchaikovsky Hymn to the Trinity
Dyson in D
Bednall O lux beata Trinitas (world premiere)*
J.S. Bach Fugue in E flat BWV552ii
*This year’s festival commission by David Bednall has been written for Alexander Mason and the Choir of St Davids Cathedral and has been Commissioned for St Davids Cathedral Festival 2010 by The Newport Bay Group of friends - Katharine & Mark Foster Brown, Jenny & Richard Chattock, Linda & Keith James, Jane & David Corsellis, Maggie Mills and Duncan Fitzwilliams.
8.00 pm Andrew Lumsden organ
The esteemed Organist of Winchester Cathedral will dazzle us with a programme to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the restored Cathedral organ.
Tickets: £10 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by Caroe & Partners
12.00 noon Young Musicians’ Platform
Anne Denholm harp
The first of this year’s Young Musicians’ Platform concerts is given by Anne Denholm who is the Young Musician of Dyfed for 2009. The programme will once again include a composition by Claire Roberts, who is the Young Composer of Dyfed 2009.
Tickets: £6 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by Llywela Harris
2.00 pm Tea & Talk in the Deanery
Clive Hicks-Jenkins in conversation with Sally Moss
Tickets: £2.50 (full price only)
The price of the ticket includes a cup of tea and welshcakes
7.00 pm The King’s Singers
The greatest ensemble singers in the world return to the Festival with a selection of madrigals and songs from their sensational Grammy award winning album ‘Simple Gifts’.
Tickets: £22, £15 and £8 Children 16 and under free
PLEASE NOTE: ALL £22 & £15 TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT FOR THIS CONCERT, BUT THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF UNRESERVED TICKETS AVAILABLE.
This concert is supported by Sponsorlink
10.00 am Coffee Concert in the Refectory
A selection of songs and arias given by the Cathedral’s Choral Scholars.
Tickets: £6 (Upstairs) £3 (Downstairs – performers not visible)
Children 16 and under half price
The price of the ticket includes a cup of coffee
PLEASE NOTE: ALL £6 (Upstairs) TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT FOR THIS CONCERT
This concert is supported by
St Davids Bookshop and David & Stephanie Halse
12.00 noon Young Organist Platform
Edward Dean organ
Ed Dean is the Organ Scholar at St Bride’s Fleet Street and was the first ever organ scholar at Lancing College. We welcome him to St Davids for this lunchtime recital.
Tickets: £6 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by The Revd Garry & Mrs Phyll Bennett
7.00 pm Chopin Anniversary recital
Leon McCawley piano
Don’t miss the chance to hear this astounding pianist perform works by Chopin, Schumann and Brahms.
Tickets: £18, £12 and £8 Children 16 and under free *
This concert is supported by Lionel & Brenda Griffiths and Denplan
9.45 pm Caryl Parry Jones
One of the foremost singers on the Welsh folk scene, Caryl Parry Jones performs her most well-known songs with acoustic guitar.
Un o gantoresau mwyaf adnabyddus Cymru yn perfformio rhai o’i chaneuon enwocaf gyda Christian Phillips yn cyfeilio ar y gitâr.
Tickets: £10 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by V J G Johns & Son
10.00 am Coffee Concert in the Refectory
Lily Whitehurst violin
Lily Whitehurst is 15 years old and is currently a pupil at Greenhill School, Tenby.
Tickets: £6 (Upstairs) £3 (Downstairs – performers not visible)
Children 16 and under half price
The price of the ticket includes a cup of coffee
4.00 pm Choral Evensong – Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Bednall O lux beata Trinitas
Wood in D
Stainer I saw the Lord
Stanford Fantasia and Toccata Op.57
Please arrive at least half an hour before the start of the service
9.00 pm Academy of Ancient Music – The Four Seasons: Nature’s Voice & Verse
Elin Manahan Thomas soprano
Pavlo Beznosiuk violin/director
The finest Welsh soprano of her generation teams up with the best early music orchestra on the globe. This intriguing programme intersperses songs by Vivaldi in between movements of the Four Seasons.
Tickets: £22, £15 and £8
This concert is supported by Pembrokeshire County Council
12.00 noon Schumann Dichterliebe
James Gilchrist tenor
Anna Tilbrook piano
In honour of Schumann’s anniversary, the outstanding English tenor James Gilchrist teams up with Anna Tilbrook to perform one of the greatest of song cycles.
Tickets: £12, £8 Children 16 and under free *
This concert is supported by The Retreats Group
3.00 pm Tea-time Concert at Llanrhian Church
The Cathedral Boys’ Choir
Following their successful sell-out concert last year, St Davids Cathedral Boys’ Choir will enthral with a variety of songs.
Tickets: £8 Children 16 and under free
A cream tea will be available after this concert in Llanrhian Church Hall, kindly provided by members of the Saints & Stones group at the cost of £4 (full price only)
This concert is supported by The Revd Garry & Mrs Phyll Bennett
PLEASE NOTE: ALL TICKETS FOR THE BOYS' CHOIR CONCERT AND CREAM TEA AT LLANRHIAN CHURCH ARE NOW SOLD OUT.
5.00 pm Choral Evensong - sung by the Cathedral Singers
Stanford in C
Mathias As truly as God is our Father
Mathias Jubilate
7.00 pm Stile Antico -Song of Songs
Stile Antico are the most talked about young early music choir and they were Gramophone winners in 2009. Their programme presents a sumptuous selection of Reniassance polyphony.
Tickets: £20, £13 and £8 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by Lloyds TSB and
The St Davids Peninsula Tourist Association
9.45 pm Choral Scholars & Vicars Choral
Following their debut in last year’s Festival the Choral Scholars
& Vicars Choral of the choir return to sing close harmony gems.
Tickets: £10 Children 16 and under free
This concert is supported by The Bench and
Lionel & Brenda Griffiths
11.00 am Eleanor Turner – Harpist
We are very sorry to report that due to illness, Claire Jones, Royal Harpist, is indisposed and will be unable to give the lunchtime recital on Friday 4 June at 12.00 noon. The festival is delighted to welcome in her place the harpist, Eleanor Turner who will be perfoming for us and will be representing Live Music Now at the festival.
Tickets: £10 Children 16 and under free
A buffet lunch will be available after this concert in the Festival marquee in the Deanery Garden, by kind permission of The Dean.
Tickets: £8 (full price only) The price of the ticket includes a glass of wine
PLEASE NOTE: ALL TICKETS FOR THE BUFFET LUNCH ARE NOW SOLD OUT
7.00 pm BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Goode organ
Gary Walker conductor
Beethoven Symphony no.1
Mathias Organ Concerto
Mozart Symphony no. 35 ‘Haffner’
We welcome back this outstanding orchestra with guest conductor Gary Walker and soloist David Goode.
Tickets: £22, £15 and £8
PLEASE NOTE: ALL £15 & £22 TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT FOR THIS CONCERT. THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF UNRESERVED SEATS AT £8 AVAILABLE FOR THIS CONCERT.
This concert is supported by Gerald & Cilla Davies, Professor Paul Davies & Sue Ashtiany, Russell & Nicola Harris, Rhodri & Barbara Lewis, David & Marian Wynn Morgan and friends
7.00 pm Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Barry Haskey leader
Alexander Mason conductor
Mozart Mass in C minor
Mozart Dominican Vespers
Mozart’s wife Constanze sang in the first performance of his great Mass in C minor which makes a fitting end, thematically to the Festival. The Festival Chorus will also perform Mozart’s uplifting Dominican Vespers.
Tickets: £22, £15 and £8
PLEASE NOTE: ALL £22 TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT FOR THIS CONCERT
This concert is supported by The Friends of St Davids Cathedral
11.15 am Choral Mattins
Britten in C
Wesley Thou wilt keep him
Howells Rhapsody no.3 in C sharp minor
6.00 pm Choral Evensong
Tallis Te lucis ante terminum
Murrill in E
Wesley Blessed be the God and Father
L. de Saint-Martin Postlude de fête sur le ‘Te Deum’
A Week, a world, away
A special anniversary exhibition in the North Quire Aisle celebrating the activities and work of Farms for City Children, Treginnis.
Love and Death - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
A visual art exhibition in the East End featuring a narrative altar piece specially made for the festival.
Sixty Heads - a portrait gallery from Tudor times
A photographic exhibition by Richard Hellon of the miniature carved faces in the Cathedral Quire.
Please note the artists and details given in this programme are correct as of the 23/02/2010. However the Festival Committee reserves the right to make any alterations as may become necessary. Full details of all events will then appear in the festival programme to be published shortly before the opening of the festival.
Photography and recordings are not allowed during concerts or services.
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