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Folksongs

from Poland, Yugoslavia, Bohemia and Estonia
by Gorecki, Seiber, Kodaly, Dvorak and Tormis
with Hungarian Dances for Wind Quintet by Farkas and Dvorak

Gorecki:  Broad Waters
 
Kodaly:  Matra Pictures
 
Seiber:  Yugoslavian Folk Songs, Hungarian Folk Songs
 
Dvorak:  Ukolebavka, Nepovim
 
Tormis:  Songs from Ingrian Evenings
 
Saturday 5th April 11am - 12am - St. Mary's Church, Totnes
Saturday 19th April 7.30pm - St. Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton

In Dulci Jubilo

Christmas Music for choir

Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 8th December 2007
Featuring instrumental consort led by Gillian Taylor

Buxtehude:  Magnificat, Das Neugeborne Kindelein, In dulci jubilo, Befiel dem Engel, Dass er komm
 
Pergolesi:  Magnificat
 
Praetorius:  En natus est Emmanuel, In dulci jubilo
 

Summer Programme 2007

ХВАЛИТЕ

Khvalitye! O Praise Him!

Russian sacred music for unaccompanied choir by
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky,
Arvo Part, Arensky, Kodaly, Grechaninov, Tavener

  Saturday 7th July 11.00am - St.Mary's Church, Totnes
Saturday 14th July 7.30pm - Buckfast Abbey
Thursday 19th July 7.30pm - Harford Church, Ivybridge

Excerpt from this programme:
 Priiditye - Rachmaninov
Ashburton Singers
Recorded Buckfast Abbey 14th July 2007

Christmas Concert - 2006

Christmas 06 poster.Nowell Sing We

The Ashburton singers, under the musical direction of Bridget Ansell present a varied and evocative programme of music for Advent and the Christmas season to include accompanied and unaccompanied carols from the medieval ages to the twentieth century.

Many of the texts such as The Coventry Carol and Sir Christemas date from the fifteenth century and, while some of the melodies are equally ancient there are also beautiful settings by Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Elizabeth Postern.

The French composer Jean Joubert's well-known carol Torches and his less famous but equally exciting Nowell Sing We are in the programme, together with serene nativity lullabies, French shepherds' carols and rustic wassailing songs from Sussex and Gloucester.

The audience will have the opportunity in some of our best-loved carols to join their voices with choir, organ and thrilling descant!

The programme was presented at:
St. Luke's Church, Buckfastleigh
St John's Church, Bovey Tracey

Admission was free with a retiring collection.

For more information
email: info@ashburtonsingers.co.uk     
charity no 1033752


Summer Concerts 2006

Concerts From the Ashburton Singers directed by Bridget Ansell

This summer we presented a celebration of British and American traditional folksongs with arrangements for unaccompanied choir by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Rutter.

Also featuring were THE COURTENAY PLAYERS, with a programme of English Recorder Consort music and a folk song suite by Vaughan Williams.

Our Concerts were as follows:

Tuesday 27 June at The Dawlish Festival

Thursday 29 June at 7.30pm. The Victory Hall, Landscove

Saturday 1 July at 7.30 pm St. Lawrence Chapel Ashburton

Saturday 8 July at 7.30pm at St. Andrew's Church Moretonhampstead

For more information
email: info@ashburtonsingers.co.uk     
charity no 1033752

Summer concerts poster.


Easter Concert - 8 April 2006

Concert From the Ashburton
Singers directed by Bridget Ansell

Easter Concert

When:
Saturday 8 April 2006
Where:
St Luke’s church, Buckfastleigh

Programme:
Ave Verum - Farrant
Justorum animae - Byrd
Thou Knowest, Lord the Secrets of Our Hearts - Purcell
The Lamb - Tavener
From 'Songs of Travel' - Vaughan Williams
O Taste and See - Vaughan Williams
Easter Hymn - Vaughan Williams
Jesu, Dulcis Memoriam - Victoria
O Vos Omnes - victoria
Ave Verum - Mozart
O Jesu Christ, Mein Lebens Licht - J.S.Bach
Five Mystical Songs by George Herbert - Vaughan Williams

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Choral Workshop March 2006

Choral Workshop
Methodist Hall
Ashburton

Saturday 11th March 2006
10am-1pm, 2pm-4.30pm

Open to all singers

 

choral workshop poster.


Spring Concert - 16 Feb 2006

Concert From the Ashburton
Singers directed by Bridget Ansell

Concert - Romantic partsongs
& light music

When:
Thursday 16 February 2006
Where:
St Paul's Church
Preston, Paignton

 


Christmas Concert 2005

 

Concert From the Ashburton
Singers directed by Bridget Ansell

When, Where:
Saturday 10 December 2005
St Petroc's Church
Harford,
near Ivybridge

Christmas concert 2005.

Autumn Concert 2005

 

Concert From the Ashburton
Singers directed by Bridget Ansell

When, Where:
Saturday 15 October 2005
St Andrew's Church
Harberton

For more information:
Tel: 01803 864462

Autumn concert 2005.

Summer Concert 2005

Concert From the Ashburton
Singers directed by Bridget Ansell

When, Where:
Saturday 16 July 2005
Denbury Church
Denbury

Winter concert 2004.

Winter 2004

Concert From the Ashburton Singers
directed by Bridget Ansell

When, Where:
Thursday 16 December 2004
St Mary's Church
Totnes

Saturday 18 December 2004
St Luke's Church
Buckfastleigh

 

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Summer Tour 2004

Summer Tour 2004 From the Ashburton Singers
directed by Bridget Ansell

When, Where:
Tuesday 6 July 2004
Methodist Church
Ashburton

Thursday 8 July 2004
Staverton Church

Tuesday 13 July 2004
Ilsington Church

Thursday 15 July 2004
Buckland-in-the-Moor Church

Saturday 17 July
Mortonhampstead Church

 

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Handel ~ St John Passion

Schubert ~ Mass in C

The Ashburton Singers last concert
directed by Bridget Ansell

St Lukes Church, Buckfastleigh
Saturday 3 April 2004 at 7.30pm

Handel ~ St John Passion
Schubert ~ Mass in C

Soloists: Janna Bulmer, Sarah Farleigh, Leslie Baker, Garreth Davies & Nicholas Merryweather
Instrumental Ensemble directed by Gillian Taylor

 

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