'Lux et Umbra' at Queens' College Chapel
SARAH FRANCES JENKINS ‘Lux et Umbra’ (World Premiere)
Nicholas Morris (organ)
Commissioned for the Choir & Organ New Music Series 2024, in partnership with the Marian Consort.
SARAH FRANCES JENKINS ‘Lux et Umbra’ (World Premiere)
Nicholas Morris (organ)
Commissioned for the Choir & Organ New Music Series 2024, in partnership with the Marian Consort.
The Coming of Night (World Premiere, Orchestral Version)
This new orchestral version of The Coming of Night was commissioned by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra. Originally a Sextet commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the BBC CO for BBC Radio 3's 'Capturing Twilight' series, the piece was premiered by members of the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Chloe Rooke on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny on October 25th 2021.
SARAH FRANCES JENKINS The Coming of Night (World Premiere of Orchestral Version)
BRAHMS Double Concerto for violin and cello
DVORAK Symphony No. 6
Uwe Grodd Conductor
FESTIVAL FINALE
Sarah Frances Jenkins Dancing with Playford (World premiere)
Tayla-Leigh Payne Blodeuo (World premiere)
Richard Blackford Songs of Nadia Anjuman
Adrian Sutton Sap and Sinews
Lynne Plowman Harp Concerto (World premiere)
Benjamin Britten Sinfonietta, Op 1
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo-soprano ꞏ Anne Denholm harp Presteigne Festival Orchestra ∙ George Vass conductor
The Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned Sarah Frances Jenkins as one of its 2024 Composers to write this work for The Marian Consort, with support from the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund.
Marian Consort
Sarah Frances Jenkins New work WORLD PREMIERE (RPS Comission)
Weelkes Death hath deprived me
Laurence Osborn Spare Parts (i) loop (after Weelkes)
Dowland His golden locks
Laurence Osborn Spare Parts (iii) spring (after Dowland)
Byrd Ad Dominum cum tribularer
The outstanding choral group present a vibrant and wide-ranging programme, opening with the world premiere of a new piece by Sarah Frances Jenkins, inspired by the stunning pre-Raphaelite designs of Castle Howard’s chapel.
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Winner of the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording Award, and the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Award, Fenella Humphreys has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim with the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances. Following the performance, Fenella Humphreys will be joined by multi-award-winning writer, historian, and public speaker, Dr Leah Broad, for a discussion and Q&A. Leah specialises in twentieth-century cultural history, especially women in the arts.
Programme to include:
Fritz Kreisler – Recitativo & Scherzo Caprice
Sarah Frances Jenkins – Tincture of the Skies
Michael Small – Prism
Caroline Shaw – In Manus Tuas
Heinrich Biber – Passacaglia
Cyril Scott – Idyll
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Hear my prayer
GIOACHINO ROSSINI O salutaris hostia
CESAR FRANCK Chorale No 3 in A minor, for organ
EDVARD GRIEG Ave maris stella
SARAH FRANCES JENKINS new work for soprano, choir and organ (world premiere)
MORTEN LAURIDSEN Lux Aeterna
Richard Harvey organ
Naomi Jones conductor
(tickets available soon)
Sarah Frances Jenkins - The Holloway (world premiere)
Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor
Vaughan Williams - Symphony no.2 in G "A London Symphony"
Tickets available here: https://www.ticketsoxford.com/events/london-in-the-summer
Chamber music meets art, activism and hope in this lunchtime concert exploring the relationship between human society and the planet we live on.
Works by Ethel Smyth, Lili Boulanger and Florence Price appear alongside contemporary pieces, including Sarah Frances Jenkins’ ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ and the Welsh premiere of Lucy Armstrong’s ‘The Whale’s Cabaret’. Through No Music on a Dead Planet, we’re putting a positive spin on planetary panic.
Lynn Henderson horn
Haim Choi, violin
Joe Howson piano
Chamber music meets art, activism and hope in this lunchtime concert exploring the relationship between human society and the planet we live on.
Works by Ethel Smyth, Lili Boulanger and Florence Price appear alongside contemporary pieces, including Sarah Frances Jenkins’ ‘The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn’ and the Welsh premiere of Lucy Armstrong’s ‘The Whale’s Cabaret’. Through No Music on a Dead Planet, we’re putting a positive spin on planetary panic.
Lynn Henderson horn
Haim Choi, violin
Joe Howson piano
Kodály Summer Evening
Sarah Frances Jenkins - new work (world premiere)
Stenhammar Two Romances for violin and orchestra, Op 28
Rodrigo Tres viejos aires de danza
Haydn Symphony No 89 in F
Martin Smith violin
George Vass conductor
Jeremey Huw Williams - Baritone
Timothy Todd Simmons - Piano
Sarah Frances Jenkins - At the Gray Dawn of Day (world premiere - song cycle for baritone and piano)
Spectri Sonori, a concert series and a chamber music ensemble specializing in performance of contemporary music, has been in residence at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University, since 1987. The series has presented the most recent compositions along with the established masterpieces of the recent past.
Conductor: Bill Carslake
Sarah Frances Jenkins: And the Sun Stood Still
Nielsen: Helios Overture
Sibelius: Nightride and Sunrise
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
David Matthews Three Birds and a Farewell, Op 118
Electra Perivolaris Mastiha (World premiere)
Roxanna Panufnik Four World Seasons
Sarah Frances Jenkins The First Swallow, for clarinet and string orchestra
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op 48
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Mathilde Milwidsky (violin)
Festival Orchestra
George Vass (conductor)
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn (World premiere)
David Matthews Adonis, Op 105
Charlotte Bray April 21st (World premiere)
Johannes Brahms Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40
Mathilde Milwidsky (violin)
Alexei Watkins (horn)
Ivana Gavrić (piano)
Photographs © Harry Jenkins
© SARAH FRANCES JENKINS (2024)