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French Fancies
Saturday, 18 May 2024 Time: 7.30pm
Including delightful music by Massenet, Saint-Saëns and Faure together with Louise Bertin’s overture, Le Loup Garou
Saturday, 18 May 2024 Time: 7.30pm
Including delightful music by Massenet, Saint-Saëns and Faure together with Louise Bertin’s overture, Le Loup Garou
Leo Byrne, violin
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, Helen Thomas, Conductor
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director
Liverpool Hope Chamber Choir, Rebekah Okpoti, Director
Level 10 Choir, Lynne Rogers, Director
Louise Bertin - Ouverture Le Loup Garou
Anon - Pavan
D’Indy - Madrigal
Rameau - O, Nuit
Massenet - Meditation 'Thais'
Bach/Gounod - Ave Maria
Saint-Saëns - Calme des Nuits
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Fauré - Masques et Bergamasques op.112; (Ouverture, Menuet, Gavotte, Pastorale, Pavane)
A delectable collection of mainly late 19th century French music on the lighter side.
We begin with Louise Bertin’s Overture based on Beauty and the Beast and end with Fauré’s elegant diversion, Masques et Bergamasques.
In between comes the famous Meditation from Massenet’s opera Thaïs – one of the great melodies for violin and orchestra - plus six of the most beautiful pieces ever written for voices. These include Ave Maria, Panis Angelicus and Rameau’s O, Night which was featured in the evocative French film, The Choristers. This is ideal music for a spring evening: fresh, scented and enchanting. Not to be missed.
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, Helen Thomas, Conductor
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director
Liverpool Hope Chamber Choir, Rebekah Okpoti, Director
Level 10 Choir, Lynne Rogers, Director
Louise Bertin - Ouverture Le Loup Garou
Anon - Pavan
D’Indy - Madrigal
Rameau - O, Nuit
Massenet - Meditation 'Thais'
Bach/Gounod - Ave Maria
Saint-Saëns - Calme des Nuits
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Fauré - Masques et Bergamasques op.112; (Ouverture, Menuet, Gavotte, Pastorale, Pavane)
A delectable collection of mainly late 19th century French music on the lighter side.
We begin with Louise Bertin’s Overture based on Beauty and the Beast and end with Fauré’s elegant diversion, Masques et Bergamasques.
In between comes the famous Meditation from Massenet’s opera Thaïs – one of the great melodies for violin and orchestra - plus six of the most beautiful pieces ever written for voices. These include Ave Maria, Panis Angelicus and Rameau’s O, Night which was featured in the evocative French film, The Choristers. This is ideal music for a spring evening: fresh, scented and enchanting. Not to be missed.
£12 (+bf), £5 concessions (+bf), £24 (+bf) Family [2 adults + up to 4 children]
Venue
The Capstone Theatre Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus 17 Shaw Street Liverpool L6 1HP
The Capstone Theatre Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus 17 Shaw Street Liverpool L6 1HP
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March 16 Angel Field Festival: Italian Journey
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Saturday 16 March 2024 7:30 p.m.
Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
Rebekah Okpoti, Organ
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, Stephen Pratt, Conductor
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director
Liverpool Hope Chamber Choir, Rebekah Okpoti, Director
Angel Field Festival: Italian Journey
Davismoon A Guiding Hand. World Premiere
Monteverdi Chiome D’Oro
Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Handel Organ Concerto in G minor, op.4, No. 1
Malipiero Vivaldiana
Monteverdi Benedictus
Rossini O Salutaris Hostia
Respighi Bella Porta di Rubini
Cherubini Symphony in D
The Angel Field Festival is an annual highlight of musical events at Liverpool Hope University, named after the farm which was originally located on the site of the current Creative Campus.
This year, the festival has an Italian influence.
This concert takes us from the Baroque splendours of Monteverdi to Cherubini, an esteemed contemporary of Beethoven and onto Rossini before touching on the 20 th century with Respighi and Malipiero.
Both these latter were influenced by Italian music of the past, coating it with contemporary colours.
Handel travelled widely in Italy as a young man and absorbed the styles of the day which he brought to
England where he settled.
A stand-out piece tonight is the world premiere of Steve Davismoon’s A Guiding Hand which is based around an old Italian melody.
Here, in the space of one evening, you can travel over 400 years of music, written in or inspired by Italy.
Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
Rebekah Okpoti, Organ
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, Stephen Pratt, Conductor
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director
Liverpool Hope Chamber Choir, Rebekah Okpoti, Director
Angel Field Festival: Italian Journey
Davismoon A Guiding Hand. World Premiere
Monteverdi Chiome D’Oro
Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Handel Organ Concerto in G minor, op.4, No. 1
Malipiero Vivaldiana
Monteverdi Benedictus
Rossini O Salutaris Hostia
Respighi Bella Porta di Rubini
Cherubini Symphony in D
The Angel Field Festival is an annual highlight of musical events at Liverpool Hope University, named after the farm which was originally located on the site of the current Creative Campus.
This year, the festival has an Italian influence.
This concert takes us from the Baroque splendours of Monteverdi to Cherubini, an esteemed contemporary of Beethoven and onto Rossini before touching on the 20 th century with Respighi and Malipiero.
Both these latter were influenced by Italian music of the past, coating it with contemporary colours.
Handel travelled widely in Italy as a young man and absorbed the styles of the day which he brought to
England where he settled.
A stand-out piece tonight is the world premiere of Steve Davismoon’s A Guiding Hand which is based around an old Italian melody.
Here, in the space of one evening, you can travel over 400 years of music, written in or inspired by Italy.
Mendelssohn and Schuman: Romantic Heights
Saturday 3 February 2024 7:30 p.m.
Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
Mendelssohn Overture Ruy Blas
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Schumann Symphony No. 3 in Eb op. 97 Rhenish
Lauryna Sableviciute, Pianist
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra,
Stephen Pratt, Conductor
The Mendelssohn and Schuman families were close friends. Both composers respected each other’s work which are pinnacles of the romantic style.
Beautiful melodies or imaginative harmonies are typical features but whereas Mendelssohn was traditional in temperament and outlook – he was Queen Victoria’s favourite composer – Schumann had a rebellious streak.
The Overture and Piano Concerto are lucid and clear. The Symphony, in 5 - not the usual 4 – movements is, by turns, passionate, introspective and descriptive. Both men had very talented women in their lives.
Fanny Mendelssohn – Felix’s sister - was an accomplished composer; Clara Schumann – Robert’s wife - also a noted composer, was the greatest female pianist of the 19 th century. Their talents are only now being broadly recognized.
Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
Mendelssohn Overture Ruy Blas
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Schumann Symphony No. 3 in Eb op. 97 Rhenish
Lauryna Sableviciute, Pianist
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra,
Stephen Pratt, Conductor
The Mendelssohn and Schuman families were close friends. Both composers respected each other’s work which are pinnacles of the romantic style.
Beautiful melodies or imaginative harmonies are typical features but whereas Mendelssohn was traditional in temperament and outlook – he was Queen Victoria’s favourite composer – Schumann had a rebellious streak.
The Overture and Piano Concerto are lucid and clear. The Symphony, in 5 - not the usual 4 – movements is, by turns, passionate, introspective and descriptive. Both men had very talented women in their lives.
Fanny Mendelssohn – Felix’s sister - was an accomplished composer; Clara Schumann – Robert’s wife - also a noted composer, was the greatest female pianist of the 19 th century. Their talents are only now being broadly recognized.
The Great Hall at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP
Village Scenes
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 7.30 |
Great Hall, Hope University, Creative Campus |
Inspired by folk and sophisticated musical traditions of rural Eastern Europe
Dvořák’s Czech Suite, Bartók, Seiber and the world premiere of Stephen Pratt’s Imaginary Folksongs II for violin and orchestra.
Dvořák’s Czech Suite, Bartók, Seiber and the world premiere of Stephen Pratt’s Imaginary Folksongs II for violin and orchestra.
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Leo Byrne, Violin
Anna Foster, Violin Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, Stephen Pratt, Conductor Cathedral Cantata Choir, Lynne Rogers, Conductor Hope Voices, Rebekah Okpoti, Director
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Bartók Rumanian Dances
Kodaly Unaccompanied songs Bartók Duos for two violins Cushion Dance Wedding Song Bartók The Horse thief Smetana Cradle Song Bartók Evening in the Village Bartók Duos for two violins New Year’s Greeting No. 1 Bagpipes Pratt More Imaginary Folksongs World Premiere Bartók 4 Slovak Folksongs Dvorák Czech Suite |
The Great Hall at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP
PROGRAMME LYRICS
Saturday 1st July 2023 7.30 The Blue Danube
Delights from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
St Bride’s Church, Percy Street, Liverpool L8 7LT click for location: https://stbridesliverpool.org.uk/contact-us
Sail with us down the Danube from Vienna to Budapest with delightful music from the last 200 years.
Featuring music by Schubert, Johann Strauss, Seiber and Marie-Thérèse Paradies.
Featuring music by Schubert, Johann Strauss, Seiber and Marie-Thérèse Paradies.
The Blue Danube
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra Conductor Helen Thomas
Cathedral Cantata Choir Director Richard Lea
Hope Voices Director Rebekah Okpoti
Programme
Marie-Therese Paradies Overture, Der Schulkandidat
Unaccompanied choral songs
Brahms Da Unten im Tale
Trad. Hungarian arr. Moseley Farewell, A Soldier’s Song
Kodaly Evening Song
Kodaly Singing Game
E. Strauss Gute Nacht
Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D
Seiber 3 Hungarian Folksongs
J Strauss II The Blue Danube
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra Conductor Helen Thomas
Cathedral Cantata Choir Director Richard Lea
Hope Voices Director Rebekah Okpoti
Programme
Marie-Therese Paradies Overture, Der Schulkandidat
Unaccompanied choral songs
Brahms Da Unten im Tale
Trad. Hungarian arr. Moseley Farewell, A Soldier’s Song
Kodaly Evening Song
Kodaly Singing Game
E. Strauss Gute Nacht
Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D
Seiber 3 Hungarian Folksongs
J Strauss II The Blue Danube
- Standard £10.00 Adults unless entitled to concessions. (We do not give pensionable age concessions as most pensioners are at least as well off as minimum wage employed.)
- Concession £5.00 Unemployed
- Student £3.00 Any school or further education student on production of id EXCEPT students of Hope University who have free entry.
- Hope Community £0.00 FREE Any student or staff member of Liverpool Hope University on production of ID.
St Bride's Church Percy St, Liverpool L8 7LT
From Rio to Windsor A Concert of English Music
Saturday 20th May 2023 7.30
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir, Dir: Richard Lea
Hope Voices, Dir: Rebekah Okpoti
Choir of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, West Houghton, Dir: Mike Stubbs
Conductor: Helen Thomas
Lynne Rogers: Soprano,
Helen Thomas: Oboe
Saturday 20th May 7.30
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Mount Pleasant Liverpool L3 5TQ click for: map
Tickets £10, (Concessions £5) Tickets available on the door
All staff and students of Liverpool Hope University on production of relevant ID (FREE)
Get your tickets here - https://bookwhen.com/cathedralconsoc#focus=ev-sy39-20230520193000
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Mount Pleasant Liverpool L3 5TQ click for: map
Tickets £10, (Concessions £5) Tickets available on the door
All staff and students of Liverpool Hope University on production of relevant ID (FREE)
Get your tickets here - https://bookwhen.com/cathedralconsoc#focus=ev-sy39-20230520193000
Choral and orchestral music from well-known British composers including Vaughan Williams and Parry.
World premieres from Liverpool’s Mike Stubbs and Hope Post-graduate student Harriet Blaney-Green
Rio to Windsor! Travel with us through time and place yet still stay home.
Tonight’s composers are all British as are their sources. Rolling down to Rio is from Kipling’s 1902 poem while the words of Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest are from Shakespeare’s play, The Merry Wives of Windsor written 300 years earlier. London features strongly in our travels: it was Blake’s home and the city where Parry settled, as did Vaughan Williams, his most famous pupil.
From the capital we go north to our own region of Merseyside for not one but two first performances. We have a piece for wind instruments by Harriet Blaney-Green and another for adult and children’s choirs and orchestra by Mike Stubbs who has written several works for us in the past. This concert is a feast of great poetry and quintessential English music with the added attractions of two local premieres, which is where our journey ends.
World premieres from Liverpool’s Mike Stubbs and Hope Post-graduate student Harriet Blaney-Green
Rio to Windsor! Travel with us through time and place yet still stay home.
Tonight’s composers are all British as are their sources. Rolling down to Rio is from Kipling’s 1902 poem while the words of Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest are from Shakespeare’s play, The Merry Wives of Windsor written 300 years earlier. London features strongly in our travels: it was Blake’s home and the city where Parry settled, as did Vaughan Williams, his most famous pupil.
From the capital we go north to our own region of Merseyside for not one but two first performances. We have a piece for wind instruments by Harriet Blaney-Green and another for adult and children’s choirs and orchestra by Mike Stubbs who has written several works for us in the past. This concert is a feast of great poetry and quintessential English music with the added attractions of two local premieres, which is where our journey ends.
Parry Lady Radnor’s Suite
Vaughan Williams Blake Songs for soprano and oboe
The Shepherd; The Piper; The Lamb; London
Blaney Green Idyll – World Premiere
German arr. X. Kelsey 2 Kipling Songs for soprano and orchestra
The First Friend; Rolling Down to Rio
INTERVAL
Stubbs, Michael Veni Sancte Spiritus – World premiere
Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest
Vaughan Williams Blake Songs for soprano and oboe
The Shepherd; The Piper; The Lamb; London
Blaney Green Idyll – World Premiere
German arr. X. Kelsey 2 Kipling Songs for soprano and orchestra
The First Friend; Rolling Down to Rio
INTERVAL
Stubbs, Michael Veni Sancte Spiritus – World premiere
Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest
Austrian Traditions
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir, Dir: Richard Lea
Hope Voices, Dir: Rebekah Okpoti
Conductor: Stephen Pratt
Saturday 18th March 2023 7.30 pm
The Great Hall at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP
Tickets £10, (Concessions £5) Tickets available on the door
Free admission to Hope University students and staff
We take you on a journey through musical styles from the Viennese Classicism of Haydn’s Summer (from The Seasons) through Schubert’s Rosamunde to Bruckner, one of the major late 19th century Romantic composers.
The span covers some 70 years of Austria’s history when Haydn and Schubert were deeply affected by the disruption of the Napoleonic wars and Bruckner, a profound pacifist, attempted to shut out his contemporary world.
Schubert Overture, Rosamunde
Bruckner 3 Motets
Bruckner 4 Orchestral Pieces
INTERVAL
Haydn Summer from The Seasons
Soloists for Summer: Faye Watson (soprano) ; Stuart Keen (tenor) ; Luke Freeney (baritone)
The Great Hall at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP
Tickets £10, (Concessions £5) Tickets available on the door
Free admission to Hope University students and staff
We take you on a journey through musical styles from the Viennese Classicism of Haydn’s Summer (from The Seasons) through Schubert’s Rosamunde to Bruckner, one of the major late 19th century Romantic composers.
The span covers some 70 years of Austria’s history when Haydn and Schubert were deeply affected by the disruption of the Napoleonic wars and Bruckner, a profound pacifist, attempted to shut out his contemporary world.
Schubert Overture, Rosamunde
Bruckner 3 Motets
Bruckner 4 Orchestral Pieces
INTERVAL
Haydn Summer from The Seasons
Soloists for Summer: Faye Watson (soprano) ; Stuart Keen (tenor) ; Luke Freeney (baritone)
Saturday 2 December 2023 7:30 p.m.
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Mount Pleasant Liverpool L3 5TQ
Christmas music in the Cathedral with local schools as well as the Society’s musicians.
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, David Lewis, Conductor
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director
Carleton House School Choir, Director Ali White
English Martyrs School Choir, Director Will Kiggins
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra, David Lewis, Conductor
Hope Metropolitan Singers, Richard Lea, Director
Carleton House School Choir, Director Ali White
English Martyrs School Choir, Director Will Kiggins
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Mount Pleasant Liverpool L3 5TQ
PAST CONCERTS 2022
Flights of Imagination
Saturday 29th October 2022, 7.30pm
The Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/concessions (OAPs, children, unemployed))
HMO Members and Hope students Free
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra
Stephen Pratt - Conductor
The Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir
Director Richard Lea
Level 10 Choir
Director Lynne Rogers
Adam Jarman (bass)
Joseph Buckmaster (tenor)
Faye Watson (soprano)
Pratt, Stephen - A Short Flight Across the City (World Premiere)
The Seasons: 4 Choral Songs
Elgar, Edward - As Torrents in Summer
Coleridge Taylor, Samuel - Summer is Gone
Holst, Gustav - In the Bleak Midwinter
Holst, Gustav - I Sowed the Seeds of Love
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Symphony No. 31 in D major - Paris K297/300a
Haydn, Franz Joseph - Spring from The Seasons
An exciting new era starts with tonight's concert, when the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Orchestra becomes The Hope Metropolitan Orchestra. The ensemble was inaugurated over four
decades ago and will continue to maintain its links with the Cathedral. Now the orchestra wish to
reach out to new musicians and audiences from the unique spaces of the Great Hall at Liverpool
Hope University and the Lutyens Cathedral as the only orchestra in the region to be officially linked
with both a Cathedral and a University. Who would not want to be part, as player or listener, of such
a group?
Haydn in the country, Mozart in Paris, Elgar, Holst and Coleridge Taylor (whose reputation is
currently enjoying a resurgence) in rural England. What an evening of interest and contrast. But
there is more! The world premiere of A Flight Across the City by Stephen Pratt, the orchestra's
Principal Conductor and the distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music at Liverpool Hope University
and Gresham College. Three soloists, two choirs and the orchestra, newly based at Hope, will come
together for the main piece, Spring from Haydn's The Seasons, a joyous work but rarely performed
locally.
On November 1st, there will be an opportunity for members of the Hope community to Come and Play with
the orchestra on an informal basis.
The Choir is recruiting, with vacancies in all voice parts. Please contact [email protected]
HMO Members and Hope students Free
Hope Metropolitan Orchestra
Stephen Pratt - Conductor
The Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir
Director Richard Lea
Level 10 Choir
Director Lynne Rogers
Adam Jarman (bass)
Joseph Buckmaster (tenor)
Faye Watson (soprano)
Pratt, Stephen - A Short Flight Across the City (World Premiere)
The Seasons: 4 Choral Songs
Elgar, Edward - As Torrents in Summer
Coleridge Taylor, Samuel - Summer is Gone
Holst, Gustav - In the Bleak Midwinter
Holst, Gustav - I Sowed the Seeds of Love
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Symphony No. 31 in D major - Paris K297/300a
Haydn, Franz Joseph - Spring from The Seasons
An exciting new era starts with tonight's concert, when the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Orchestra becomes The Hope Metropolitan Orchestra. The ensemble was inaugurated over four
decades ago and will continue to maintain its links with the Cathedral. Now the orchestra wish to
reach out to new musicians and audiences from the unique spaces of the Great Hall at Liverpool
Hope University and the Lutyens Cathedral as the only orchestra in the region to be officially linked
with both a Cathedral and a University. Who would not want to be part, as player or listener, of such
a group?
Haydn in the country, Mozart in Paris, Elgar, Holst and Coleridge Taylor (whose reputation is
currently enjoying a resurgence) in rural England. What an evening of interest and contrast. But
there is more! The world premiere of A Flight Across the City by Stephen Pratt, the orchestra's
Principal Conductor and the distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music at Liverpool Hope University
and Gresham College. Three soloists, two choirs and the orchestra, newly based at Hope, will come
together for the main piece, Spring from Haydn's The Seasons, a joyous work but rarely performed
locally.
On November 1st, there will be an opportunity for members of the Hope community to Come and Play with
the orchestra on an informal basis.
The Choir is recruiting, with vacancies in all voice parts. Please contact [email protected]
