Music: Shakespeare Gala Concert

2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare

Ten Tors Orchestra & Bath Spa University Choir
Simon Ible, conductor
Augusta Hebbert, Soprano
Elin Pritchard, soprano
Alexander Robin Baker, baritone
Matthew Spring, chorus master

Thomas Linley: A Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare
Thomas Arne: Nine Shakespeare Songs
Henry Purcell: Incidental music for The Tempest

Bath composer Thomas Linley the younger (1756 - 1778) was known as the “English Mozart”. He composed violin sonatas and concertos as well as choral works, and provided most of the music for his brother-in-law Richard Brinsley Sheridan's opera The Duenna. Among his surviving works is the Ode on the Spirits of Shakespeare, the Lyric Ode (1776), set to a text by his fellow-Bathonian French Laurence.

Peninsula Arts is pleased to be working in partnership with Bath Spa University and its choir; specialists in the performance of 18th- century Bath composers.

Saturday 23rd April at 19.30

Tickets £17, £15 Friends of Peninsula Arts & Ten Tors Orchestra, £5 children
Ticket discounts available via Artory App

Minster Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth