EXETER CHAMBER CHOIR Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph Buckfast Abbey Saturday 7 December The Great Barn Lower Ashton Wednesday 11 December |
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Readings from Dickens
1. St Margaret's Topsham
. . Tuesday 3 December 7.30pm
2. All Saints Kenton
. . Tuesday 17 December 7.30pm
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Reader: Lee Rawlings
Tickets: £5
Topsham Bookshop: 877895
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The Pete Canter Trio
Broadhempston Village Church
Friday 6 December 7 for 7.30pm
SUPER-CHILLLED EVENING
Saxophone & Flute: Pete Canter
Keyboard: James Clemas
Double Bass: Jim Rintoul
Tickets: £12
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Lyric Chamber Orchestra
St George's Church Dittisham
(Water Lane from Totnes bypass)
Friday 6 December 7.30pm
'THE GLORY OF CHRISTMAS'
Conductor: Keith Marshall
Musical Director: Trish Calnan
Narrator: Conor Magee
Organist: Ian Curror
G F Handel: 'Pifa'
A L Vivaldi: 'L'Inverno'
Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling
Sir John Betjeman
Tickets: £18
John Wells: 01803 722414
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Lunchtime Concerts at Killerton
Killerton House
Saturday 7 December 12 & 1.30pm
'ASPECTS OF LOVE'
Soprano: Kara Malton
Mezzo Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska
Tommaso Giordani: "Caro Mio Ben"
Giovanni Paisello: 'La Molinara' -
. "Nel cor piu non mi sento" (duet)
Antonio Vivaldi: 'Gloria' - "Domine Deus"
W A Mozart: Sonata 12 K332 I Allegro
W A Mozart: 'La Clemenza di Tito -
. "Ah, perdona al primo afferto" (duet)
Gioachino Rossini: 'La Cenerentola' -
. "Nacqui all'affanno, al pianto"
. "Non piu mesta accanto al fuoco"
W A Mozart: 'Cosi fan Tutte' - "In uomini"
W A Mozart: Sonata K284 I Adagio Cantabile
César Franck: "Panis Angelicus"
Adolphe Adam: 'Cantique de Noël'
Engelbert Humperdinck: 'Hänsel und Gretel' -
. "Abends will ich schlafen gehen"
Jacques Offenbach: 'Tales of Hoffman' -
. "Belle Nuit" (duet)
Claude Debussy: 'Children's Corner Suite' -
. VI 'Golliwog's Cakewalk'
Henry Purcell: 'Sound the Trumpet
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Cathedral Choir
Exeter Cathedral
2. Tuesday 10 December 7pm
3. Thursday 12 December 7pm
CHRISTMAS WITH
THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Musical Director: Timothy Noon
Organist: Michael Stephens-Jones
Tickets: £10 (U18 £5)
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& Orchestra
& singers from Cantemos
St David's Church
Saturday 7 December 7pm
- - - "GAUDETE!" - - -
'A WINTER CONCERT'
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Piano: Stephen Tanner
Antonio Vivaldi: "Gloria"
Francesco Durante: "Magnificat"
Zoltan Kodaly - Ola Gjeilo
Gordon Lightfoot
Tickets: £15 (student £7.50)
Children - FREE
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& The Chapel Consort
Mary Harris Memorial Chapel
Saturday 7 December 6.30 for 7pm
HANDEL: 'MESSIAH'
Conductor: Michael Graham
Tickets: £15 (student £8)
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Exeter Chamber Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 7 December 7.30pm
'O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM'
Carols with Brass accompaniment
Morten Lauridsen" O Magnum Mysterium"
"O Come All Ye Faithful"
Traditional: "O Little One Sweet "
David Lowe: 'Christmas Eve' (arr. Daldorph)
"Away in a Manger"
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
"Hodie Christus Natus Est"
Anton Bruckner "Ave Maria"
Josquin des Prez: "Ave Maria"
Henryk Górecki: "Totus Tuus Sum"
"Angels from the Realms of Glory"
& "In Dulci Jubilo" arr. Daldorph
"Silent Night" (arr. Reginald Jacques)
"The Holly and the Ivy"
Dieterich Buxtehude: "Magnificat"
Traditional: "Ding Dong Merrily"
John Joubert: 'Torches'
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
William Mathias: 'Sir Christèmas'
Tickets: £15
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Isca Ensemble
Saturday 7 December 7.30pm
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Piano: Julian Trevelyan
Dmitri Shostakovich: Festival Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Emperor’ Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Emperor’ Concerto
Léo Delibes: 'Coppélia ' Waltz, Prelude & Mazurka
Piotr Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite - extracts
Piotr Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite - extracts
Tickets: £17.50 (student U18 £5)
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North Devon Choral Society
Saturday 7 December 7.30pm
- - - 'CONCERT!' - - -
Conductor: John Hobbs
Soprano: Katie Wright
Tenor: Mark Hounsell
Bass: Tim Mirfin
Organ built for Sherwell
Congregational Church
by 'Father' Henry Willis
Tickets: £20 (child/student FREE)
01271 378104
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Sam Richards
Bay Horse Totnes Bypass
Sunday 8 December 7.30pm
'LULLABIES AND DREAMS'
A SOLO PIANO RECITAL
Piano: Sam Richards
A first set based on lullaby tunes
and a second set based on tunes
about dreams. Some are festive,
some are well-known, some are
specially composed for the occasion,
some are centuries old,
some were written yesterday.
All are inhabited and extended
by improvisation.
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Gabrieli Consort & Players
Exeter Cathedral
Monday 9 December 7pm
'A GRAND GEORGIAN CHRISTMAS'
Artistic Director: Paul McCresh
The Gabrieli singers lead Devon
youth choirs in music from the
Georgian period (1740-1850).
Handel to Haydn.
"Remember, O thou Man"
"Veni, Veni, Emmanuel"
'The People who Walked in Darkness'
"He Comes with Clouds Descending"
"As Shepherds Watched their Fleecy Care"
"Adeste Fideles"
"hush my Dear, Lie Still and slumber"
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
with strings, flutes, clarinets, bassoons,
horns, trumpets, drums, organ,
harpsichord, ophicleide -
and two serpents!
Tickets: Aisle £10 (U18 FREE)
(Nave £20 sold out)
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Isca Ensemble
Sidmouth Parish Church
Monday 9 December 3pm
CONCERT CLASSICS
Violin: Joel Munday
Piano: Julian Trevelyan
Lily Boulanger: Complete Works
Franz Schubert: Fantasy D394
Jean Sibelius: 3 Pieces Opus 116
César Franck: Sonata in A major
Admission FREE booking required
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Paragon Books: 01395 514516
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Exeter Chorale
St Michael's Mount Dinham
Monday 9 December 7.30pm
Conductor: Margaret Aagesen Hughes
Organist: Edward Jenkins
Felix Mendelssohn: Cantata Christus
. . . . - "There shall a star . . . "
Morten Lauridsen: "O Magnum Mysterium"
William Byrd: "This Day Christ was Born"
John Rutter: 'The Star Carol'
Philip Stopford: "Lulla, Lulla Lullay"
Benjamin Britten: "Hymn to the Virgin"
Edvard Grieg: "Ave Maria Stella"
Harold Darke: "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Thomas Tallis: "O Nata Lux"
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
'Truth Sent from Above"
(Violin Soloist: Patrick Hughes)
Louis Botto & Chanticleer:
'The Virgin Unspotted'
Henry Purcell: 'Evening Hymn'
Engelbert Humperdinck: 'Hänsel und Gretel'
- 'Abendsegen' (Evening Prayer)
(Alto Soloist: Lisa Hebbard)
Sabine Baring-Gould: TBA
(composer of "Onward Christian Soldiers")
Tickets: £12 (advance £10)
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Exeter Cathedral Choir
& Devon Baroque
Exeter Cathedral
Sunday 8 December 2.30pm
HANDEL 'MESSIAH'
Tickets: Aisle £15
Front Aisle £21 Front Nave £26
Middle Nave £21 Rear Nave £16
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Exeter Chamber Choir
The Great Barn Lower Ashton
Wednesday 11 December 7.30pm
CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT
Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph
with readers from Maynard School
Morten Lauridsen" O Magnum Mysterium"
"O Come All Ye Faithful"
Traditional: "O Little One Sweet "
David Lowe: 'Christmas Eve' (arr. Daldorph)
"Away in a Manger"
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
"Hodie Christus Natus Est"
Anton Bruckner "Ave Maria"
Henryk Górecki: "Totus Tuus Sum"
"Angels from the Realms of Glory"
& "In Dulci Jubilo" arr. Daldorph
"Silent Night" (arr. Reginald Jacques)
"The Holly and the Ivy"
Dieterich Buxtehude: "Magnificat"
Traditional: "Ding Dong Merrily"
John Joubert: 'Torches'
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
William Mathias: 'Sir Christèmas'
Tickets: £12 (child £6 family £30)
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01647 252552
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St Peter's Church Tiverton
Saturday 14 December 7.30pm
CHRISTMAS MUSIC
& CANDLELIGHT
Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph
with orchestral players
Tickets: £12 (U18 FREE)
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Info: 01884 253494
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Cantemos & Friends
St Mary's Church Dartington
Sunday 15 December 3pm
- - "A CHILD IS BORN" - -
A candlelit celebration of
Christmas in choral music
and readings
Admission FREE
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Collegium Singers
St John the Baptist Wellington
- - CHRISTMAS CONCERT - -
'A GREAT & MIGHTY WONDER'
Musical Director: Andrew Kirk
Charles Paterson: Advent Responsory
'The Angel Gabriel' – arr Andrew Kirk
Song of the Holly – arr. Andrew Kirk
"Quem Pastore"s - arr. Andrew Kirk
"While Shepherd’s Watched"
John Rutter: Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Peter Warlock: 'Bethlehem Down'
Herbert Howells: 'A Spotless Rose'
"God Rest you merry gentlemen"
Harold Darke: "In the bleak midwinter"
"Ding dong merrily on high"
Richard Barnes: "A great and mighty wonder"
Richard Barnes: "There is no rose"
Richard Barnes: "See amid the winter’s snow"
"Hark the herald angels sing"
Traditional: Coventry Carol
Josephine Stephenson: 'The infant king'
Elizabeth Poston: "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree"
'Twelve Days of Christmas'
"We wish you a merry Christmas"
'The Angel Gabriel' – arr Andrew Kirk
Song of the Holly – arr. Andrew Kirk
"Quem Pastore"s - arr. Andrew Kirk
"While Shepherd’s Watched"
John Rutter: Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Peter Warlock: 'Bethlehem Down'
Herbert Howells: 'A Spotless Rose'
"God Rest you merry gentlemen"
Harold Darke: "In the bleak midwinter"
"Ding dong merrily on high"
Richard Barnes: "A great and mighty wonder"
Richard Barnes: "There is no rose"
Richard Barnes: "See amid the winter’s snow"
"Hark the herald angels sing"
Traditional: Coventry Carol
Josephine Stephenson: 'The infant king'
Elizabeth Poston: "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree"
'Twelve Days of Christmas'
"We wish you a merry Christmas"
Tickets: £15 (student £9 U12 FREE))
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01823 340470
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Exeter Philharmonic Choir
1. Tuesday 17 December 7.30pm
2. Wednesday 18 December 7.30pm
CAROLS IN THE CATHEDRAL
Cecilia McDowall: 'A Winter's Night'
Conductor: Howard Ionascu
Organist: Stephen Tanner
Speaker: Todd Gray ('A Devon Christmas')
Soprano: Milly Forrest
Trumpet: Cameron Todd, Fraser Tannock
Tickets: Aisle £12, Rear £16, Front £22
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Lunchtime Concert
Mint Methodist Church
Wednesday 18 December 2pm
'A BIT OF EVERYTHING'
"The best pieces from our
. projects of this year"
Mezzo Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska
Giovanni Tommaso
Georg Friderick Handel
Henry Purcell
Gioachino Rossino
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
César Franck
Franz Schumann
& Piano solo masterpieces.
Admission FREE retiring collection
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Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Thursday 19 December 4.30pm
CHRISTMAS CAROLS & SONGS
Musical Director: Paul Stock
Admission FREE
Donations to St Petrock's
Responding positively to homelessness
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Lyric Chamber Orchestra
Ashburton Arts Centre
'FESTIVE BAROQUE BY CANDLELIGHT'
Conductor: Keith Marshall
Musical Director: Patricia Calnan
J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto III
Henry Purcell: Chacony in G
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin & 'Cello
(Violin: Trish Calnan - 'Cello: Jeremy Capey)
J S Bach: 'Air on a G String'
J S Bach: 'Christmas Concerto' - 'Chorale'
Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto Grosso in Gm
- 'Fatto per la Notte di Natale'
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for string Cm
Johann Pachelbel: 'Canon'
G F Handel: Concerto Grosso in B♭
Tickets: £15/£10/£7 according to means
Children under 18 - FREE
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Red Earth Opera
1. St Nicholas Priory
2. Mary Harris Memorial Chapel
. . Saturday 25 January 7pm
PURCELL: 'DIDO & AENEAS'
Musical Directors:
Nick Lawrence & Iryna Ilnytska
Piano: John Draisey
Dido: Iryna Ilnytska
Aeneas: Lee Andreae
Sorceress: Jane Anderson-Brown
Belinda: Kara Malton
1st Witch/Spirit: Emily Grossman
2nd Witch: Susan Gunn-Johnson
2nd Woman: Melanie Mehta
Sailor: Cressida Whitton
Tickets: £15
nicholaspriory.com/events
or book and pay on arrival
iryna.ilnytska28@gmail.com
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La Vie en Rose
CICCIC Taunton
Friday 31 January 7.30pm
SWING MUSIC NIGHT
Gypsy Favourites
Jazz & Soulful Ballard
& Latin Swing
Tickets: £18
ciccic.co.uk
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& Lyric Chamber Ensemble
Mint Methodist Church
Saturday 15 February
CHORAL WORKSHOP
Conductor: Howard Ionascu
Accompanist: Stephen Tanner
Tickets: £22
Booking: 0333 666 3366
exeterphilharmonic.org.uk
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East Devon Choral Society
St Peter's Church Tiverton
Saturday 26 April 7.30pm
J S BACH
MASS IN B MINOR
Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph
with orchestra
Tickets: TBC
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