{"id":1119,"date":"2018-03-11T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2018-03-11T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:46:57","slug":"the-passing-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Saturday 11th March, 2018<br \/>\n<strong>Venue<\/strong>: Ely Methodist Church<br \/>\n<strong>Programme<\/strong>: The Passing of the year<br \/>\n<strong>Featuring<\/strong>: Ely Consort, Conductor ~ Matthew Rudd, Piano ~ Charlie Penn &amp; Flute ~ Cherry Blanchard<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\nThe Passing of the Year \u2013 Ely Consort\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Midway through the Ely Consort\u2019s \u2018evening of poetic music\u2019 the choir gave a luminous performance of music by Morten Lauridsen \u2013 \u2018Sure on this shining night, I weep for wonder\u2019. There was plenty for the audience to wonder at in this concert of settings of great poetry, with words by Shakespeare, Byron, Tennyson and others.<\/p>\n<p>The choir has long championed contemporary music, and most of the evening\u2019s pieces  were by living British composers. The choir\u2019s elegant performances of works by Malcolm Archer and Alexander L\u2019Estrange placed them in the English cathedral choral tradition, creating a bluesy, yearning melancholy reminiscent of Howells and Vaughan Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The mood of the concert changed in the second half. As well as exploring American repertoire, the choir rose to the challenge of Jonathan Dove\u2019s The Passing of the Year, described by conductor Matthew Rudd as \u2018one of the hardest pieces we\u2019ve done\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Here the singers were split into two four-part choirs, and blocks of sound and intricate rhythms flew between the sets of singers. The music was full of drama \u2013 one moment expansive, the next intimate \u2013 and the Ely Consort captured these changes of mood with precise and, at times, rapt singing. Dove\u2019s exultant setting of Tennyson\u2019s \u2018Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky\u2019 was a perfect way to send a happy audience out into a calm Ely evening.<\/p>\n<p>Between the choral pieces, flautist Cherry Blanchard and pianist Charlie Penn (who also tackled with ease the virtuosic piano part in the Dove) performed French music by Debussy, Poulenc and Gaubert, a perfect complement to the choral pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Saturday 11th March, 2018 Venue: Ely Methodist Church Programme: The Passing of the year Featuring: Ely Consort, Conductor ~ Matthew Rudd, Piano ~ Charlie Penn &amp; Flute ~ Cherry Blanchard &nbsp; The Passing of the Year \u2013 Ely Consort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/?p=1119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image1.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MCku-i3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyconsort.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}