The BMF Theme this year is “Music and Literature” and our .Musical Director, Julian Collings has designed the programme below, entitled Such Harmony He writes:
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 - Serenade to Music - is contrasted with Will Todd’s appropriately colourful choral suite - Songs of Musical Creatures - 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 Cloudburst, a ‘celebration of the unleashed kinetic energy in all things’.
Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Will Todd - Songs of Magical Creatures
Elgar arr. Fraser - Sea Pictures
Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst
The Barnes Choir Easter Concert - Such Harmony
Saturday 22nd March 2025, at 7.30pm
St Mary's, Barnes. SW13 9HL
Conducted by Julian Collings with the English Sinfonietta,
and soloists Lisa Swayne, Beth Moxon, Rory Carver and James Geidt.
Tickets £20.00
Choose and book your seats here:
www.barnesmusicfestival.com/events/barnes-choir-such-harmony/
Enquiries: tickets@barneschoir.org.uk
We look forward to welcoming you.