Ely Sinfonia & Ely Choral Society present
Beethoven’s
9th Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no 9
Ralph Vaughan Williams
In the Fen Country
Andrew Parnell
Fenland Images (world première)
Peyee Chen
Freya Jacklin
Michael Solomon Williams
Laurence Williams
Soprano
Mezzo Soprano
Tenor
Bass-Baritone
Steve Bingham & Andrew Parnell
Conductors
Ely Choral Society
Ely Consort
Ely Sinfonia
Ely Cathedral
Saturday 15 July 2017 · 7.30pm
Tickets: £25/£20/£15 (reserved) · £8 (unreserved) · Under 18s £5.
Available from: Ely Cathedral Box Office
Tel 01353 660349 · [email protected]
https://tickets.elycathedral.org
Ely Sinfonia Reg Charity No. 1161642. Ely Choral Society Reg Charity No. 802308.
Fenland Images supported by Arts Council England. By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter.
www.elysinfonia.co.uk | www.elychoralsociety.org
E LY
SINFONIA
Ely
Choral
Society
Ely Sinfonia & Ely Choral Society present
Beethoven’s
9th Symphony
E LY
SINFONIA
Ely
Choral
Society
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no 9
Ralph Vaughan Williams
In the Fen Country
Andrew Parnell
Fenland Images (world première)
Peyee Chen
Freya Jacklin
Michael Solomon Williams
Laurence Williams
Soprano
Mezzo Soprano
Tenor
Bass-Baritone
Steve Bingham and
Andrew Parnell
Conductors
Ely Choral Society
Ely Consort
Ely Sinfonia
Ely Cathedral
Saturday 15 July 2017 · 7.30pm
Tickets:
£25/£20/£15 (reserved)
£8 (unreserved) · Under 18s £5.
Available from:
Ely Cathedral Box Office
Tel 01353 660349
[email protected]
https://tickets.elycathedral.org
Ely Sinfonia Reg Charity No. 1161642.
Ely Choral Society Reg Charity No. 802308.
Fenland Images supported by Arts Council England.
By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter.
For the final concert in the 2017 Isle of Ely
Arts Festival, Ely Choral Society, Ely Consort
and Ely Sinfonia join forces to perform that
most evocative of choral works, Beethoven’s
Symphony no 9 in D minor. The first ever
major choral symphony, it is one of the
best-known works in the classical music
repertoire.
Vaughan Williams was a frequent visitor to
the Fens, first as a student at Cambridge
and then as a collector of English folk songs.
In the Fen Country magically portrays the
bleak landscape and wide open spaces of
East Anglia.
Finally, we are proud to be giving the world
première of Andrew Parnell’s Fenland Images.
Reflecting this year’s Isle of Ely Festival
theme of ‘The Fens’ and based on poems
by local writers, it illustrates a modern-day
agricultural scene, the timeless daily round
of worship in St Etheldreda’s monastery and
the shadowy characters who once inhabited
this area.
www.elysinfonia.co.uk | www.elychoralsociety.org