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Saturday 20 June 2026, 7:30 pm
St Nicholas’s Church, High Bradfield
A Million Nightingales
Corvus Consort reveals how musicians and poets have drawn inspiration from their avian friends for hundreds of years, in a programme of choral music themed around birds.
Charting a course from the 15th century to the present day, the singers of Corvus showcase their great versatility, performing renaissance madrigals, traditional folksongs, 20th-century British music, and contemporary works by leading living composers.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Silence and Music
Linda Hirschhorn (b. 1960)
I have a million nightingales
POEM
Nightingales (by Robert Bridges)
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Nightingales
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
The silver swan
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Un Cygne
Jacques Arcadelt (c.1507-1568)
Il bianco e dolce cigno
Trad., arr. Freddie Crowley (b. 1995)
The Blackest Crow
John Hearne (b. 1937)
The Seagull
POEM
Celestial Bird (by Jessica Powers)
Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968)
Celestial Bird
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Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
The blue bird
Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
and the swallow
William Cornysh (1465-1523)
Ah, Robin
POEM
To a Skylark (by Percy Shelley)
Becky McGlade (b. 1974)
To a Skylark
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Trois beaux oiseaux
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Turtle Dove
Edward T. Chapman (1902-1981)
The Three Ravens
Clément Janequin (c.1485-1558)
Le chant des oiseaux
Karine Polwart (b. 1970)
Follow the Heron