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Concert Details
7
February
Overview
Northern Chords Festival Orchestra with Ben Johnson (tenor) and Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)
Hall 1 & Online
LONDON UNWRAPPED 2021
Purcell – Chacony in G minor (arr. Britten)
Elgar – Serenade in E minor Op.20
Walton – Two pieces from the music for the film Henry V
Finzi – Dies Natalis (Ben Johnson tenor)

The strings of the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra present a concert of favourite English classics. Purcell’s ‘Chacony’, in Britten’s famous arrangement, Elgar’s beautiful Serenade, and two famous excerpts from William Walton’s music for the Laurence Olivier starring film Henry V – Passacaglia and ‘Touch Her Soft Lips’. Their concert culminates in Finzi’s masterful cantata Dies Natalis, to words by Thomas Traherne, sung by the tenor Ben Johnson.
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6.30pm Sunday, 7th February 2021
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