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A Million Nightingales

Part of the Whiddon Autumn Festival 2025

Add to my Calendar 18-09-2025 17:00 18-09-2025 19:00 36 A Million Nightingales The voices of Corvus Consort take to the skies for a bird's-eye view of choral music, with a special guest appearance from the Whiddon Autumn Festival Children's Choir. Under the direction of Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort presents musical depictions of nightingales, skylarks, swallows and ravens, as well as an owl and a very famous "blue bird". Works by 20th-century English masters Stanford and Finzi sit alongside music by contemporary composers Becky McGlade, Caroline Shaw and Toby Young, as well as traditional folk song arrangements. Corvus Consort will also perform the remarkable Sol by the festival's Composer-in-Residence Ben Nobuto, an ingenious work for which Ben was awarded the prize for Best Choral Composition at the Ivors Academy Awards 2023. St Andrew's Church, Moretonhampstead DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Andrew's Church
Fore Street
Moretonhampstead
Devon
TQ13 8NN
England

Programme

Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Toby Young – The Owl
Ben Nobuto – Sol
Becky McGlade – To a Skylark
Gerald Finzi – Nightingales, Op.17 no.5

Performers

Harry Baker – piano
Freddie Crowley – Conductor

Corvus Consort

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Programme Note

The voices of Corvus Consort take to the skies for a bird's-eye view of choral music, with a special guest appearance from the Whiddon Autumn Festival Children's Choir.

Under the direction of Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort presents musical depictions of nightingales, skylarks, swallows and ravens, as well as an owl and a very famous "blue bird". Works by 20th-century English masters Stanford and Finzi sit alongside music by contemporary composers Becky McGlade, Caroline Shaw and Toby Young, as well as traditional folk song arrangements.

Corvus Consort will also perform the remarkable Sol by the festival's Composer-in-Residence Ben Nobuto, an ingenious work for which Ben was awarded the prize for Best Choral Composition at the Ivors Academy Awards 2023.

A Million Nightingales

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