Musical Seascapes
Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Howells Sir Patrick Spens
Mendelssohn The Hebrides
MacCunn The Wreck of the Hesperus
Stanford Songs of the Fleet
Saturday 12th November 2022 7:30PM
Nottingham Harmonic Choir
Orchestra da Camera
Conductor Richard Laing
Bass-baritone Edward Grint
Organist Jonathan Allsopp
Our island nation has always been fascinated by the sea, and our greatest composers have been irresistibly drawn to it. Here we present Stanford’s rollicking nautical entertainment alongside Britten’s atmospheric musical pictures, a dramatic cantata by Herbert Howells and an extraordinary melodrama by the great Romantic Hamish MacCunn, (probably never heard in Nottingham before) all prefaced by the anglophile Mendelssohn’s wonderfully vivid picture of Fingal’s Cave. Bring your waterproofs!
