Sunday Choral Services at St Mary-le-Tower

Sung by the Choir of Boys and Men or the Tower Singers

9.30 am Choral Matins (BCP)

10.30 am Parish Eucharist (CW)

6.30 pm Choral Evensong (1st Sunday of the month, BCP Communion)

Concerts given by the Choir of St Mary-le-Tower

18 May, 6.30 pm Concert in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care

11 October, 7.30 pm Choral Foundation Concert

23 December, 1.10 pm Christmas Concert

The words of the greatElizabethan playwright,William Shakespeare, provide

a starting point for many of thisyear’s recitals. This year is the450th anniversary of his birth andthus it is appropriate that exponentsof one art-form (music)acknowledge the genius of one in another (poetry).Often this manifests itself in theform of settings of his words, bothin solo song and in choral settings;elsewhere it is Shakespeare's plots

that give creative impulse toinstrumental music, as incidentalmusic to his plays (or films of thoseplays); also represented are worksthat are inspired by quotations from the dramatist. The centenary of the creation of theDiocese of St Edmundsbury andIpswich is celebrated specificallythrough several works written inthat same year (1914) as well asthrough music of the first quarter of the twentieth century.

LunchtimeConcerts 2014

43rd Annual Series at St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich.Tuesdays 1.10 pm to 1.55 pm

Beginning 6th May; weekly until 21st October

William Shakespeare 450th Anniversary

“If music be the food of

love, play on”

Celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’sbirth and the centenary of the creation of the Diocese

of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

www.ipswich-church-choir.co.uk

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JULY 29

Charme du Hautbois:Mark Baigent oboeHelen Sharp harp‘Nocturne’: Mid-19th century musicusing a Triebert oboe & cor anglais (c. 1840 & 1855) and an Erard harp (c. 1880). In this programme Charme du Hautbois presents rarely heard musicby Brod, one of the leading oboists andoboe developers of his day along withPasculli, the ‘paganini of the oboe’ andBochsa, a harpist who developed modern harp technique.

AUGUST 5

Voigt String TrioBeethoven: “Ghost” Trio

AUGUST 12

Jonathan Rutherford pianoincludes works by Beethovenand Poulenc.

AUGUST 19

Nick Cooper celloJohn Cooper pianoincludes works by Britten and Beethoven

AUGUST 26

Christopher Baczkowski organOundle Festival Recital Award Winner 2013 includes works by Bach, Vierne andLeighton

SEPTEMBER 2

Clare Barton contraltoTBA (piano)Warlock: ‘Sigh no more, ladies’

SEPTEMBER 9

Emmanuel Vass piano“One to Watch”, IndependentBach, Beethoven, Chopin and music from James Bond

SEPTEMBER 16

Mark Wilde tenorStephen Bullamore accompanimentRestoration Shakespeare settings byPurcell, Weldon, Corbett and Eccles

SEPTEMBER 23

Benjamin Goldscheider French hornTBA (piano)

SEPTEMBER 30

Jonaathan Lilley organDirector of Music, Waltham AbbeyElgar: Organ Sonata

OCTOBER 7

Jamie McVinnie organIn association with the Suffolk Organists’ Association, includes works by Dupré

OCTOBER 14

London Chamber CollectiveIn association with the Suffolk Organists’ Association includes works by Dupré

OCTOBER 21

TBA

Light Refreshments are available from 12.20 pm

Tower Chamber ChoirStephen Bulamore Conductor

“If music be the food of love, play on”

19th and 20th CenturyRomantic Music

Saturday 22nd November,7.30 pm

MAY 6

Julian Empett Baritone,Ian Tindale pianoIncludes Shakespeare settings

MAY 13

Stephen Bullamore organDirector of Music, St Mary-le-TowerLocke: Instrumental music from The Tempest (arr. Bullamore)Lizst: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen

MAY 20

Edmund Aldhouse OrganAssistant Organist, Ely Cathedral

MAY 27

Christine Stevenson piano‘...soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony’The Merchant of VeniceLiszt, Chopin, Schumann and Debussy

JUNE 3

Steve Harman clarinetWilliam Baldry pianoAn eclectic programme of clarinet favourites

JUNE 10

Andrew Cantrill organAntonio Soler (arr. E Power Biggs): The Emperor’s FanfareWalton: Three Pieces from Richard IIIAlain: Litanies

JUNE 17

Christopher Borrett baritoneAlice Borrett pianoShakespeare Songs by Eric CoatesFinzi: ‘Let us garlands bring’

JUNE 24

Huw Williams organDirector of Music at Her Majesty's ChapelRoyal, St James’s Palace Dupré Prelude and Fugue in B major Op 7 No 1 (1914)Walton Suite from ‘Henry V’ Vierne Minuet & Finale from Symphonie No 4 Op 32 (1914)

JULY 1

Rebecca Hewes celloGareth Owen piano

JULY 6, 10.30 am

Festival Eucharist (Ip-Art) with orchestraRheinberger Mass in C op169

JULY 8

Nick Freestone organOrgan Scholar, Worcester College, Oxford;Organ Scholar elect, Wells CathedralA recital celebrating the Diocesan Centenary

JULY 15

Stephen Raine pianoJ.S. Bach: Selection of Preludes and Fuguesfrom Well Tempered Clavier Book IBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor (Pathetique) Op. 13

JULY 22

William Baldry organOrganist, St Mary-le-TowerWalton: March (from Prelude to Richard III)German: Coronation March (from Henry VIII) and works by Dupré and Saint-Saëns

Tower Chamber ChoirStephen Bulamore Conductor

Vaughan Williams:Three Shakespeare Songs

Frank Martin: Five Songs of ArielJaakko Mäntyjärvi:

Four Shakespeare SongsA selection of Elizabethan Madigrals

Sunday 14th June at 7.30 pm

43rd Annual Series at St Mary-le-Tower, IpswichTuesday Lunchtimes 1.10 pm to 1.55 pm

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