Lesley Jane Rogers and Ali Darragh (sopranos) with Dominic Bowe (baritone), the opera includes Dido's famous lament When I am laid in earth and the concert will be the first of the Festival Evenings, which also feature The Exon Baroque Players, on period instruments. Further Festival Evenings will include an An Evening of Baroque Chamber Music (Wednesday 27th), Great Cantatas and Motets by Bach and Vivaldi including Lobet den Herrn (Thursday 28th), a recording of BBC Sunday Half Hour (Friday 29th) and for the Festival Finale on Saturday 30th, a special candlelit reconstruction of the beautiful unaccompanied Vespers by the great Spanish Renaissance composer, Tomás Luis de Victoria.
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The Exon Singers is recognised a s one of the leading chamber choirs in the UK and can often be heard on BBC Radios 3 and 4, and on CD. The choir plan to release their most recent CD during the 2011 Festival, a new disc of music by previous Festival Composer-in-Residence, Philip Wilby, on the Regent Records label. This will add to a CD catalogue of five critically acclaimed discs. Under the direction of Matthew Owens, the choir has received considerable recognition for its commitment to commissioning new music. This year they are delighted to welcome Gary Davison, from the USA, in joining a series of Composers-in-Residence who have included Joseph Phibbs, Francis Jackson, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton, Richard Allain, Grayston Ives, David Briggs, Philip Moore and Philip Wilby.
Since 1973 the annual Exon Singers Festival has been based in Tavistock, with Tavistock Parish Church as its main venue and Buckfast Abbey for its annual broadcast of Choral Evening Prayer for BBC Radio 3. The choir is proud of its connection with Tavistock and looks forward to its return each year. Over the course of the Festival the choir gives a variety of concerts and services including the beautiful and contemplative evening servic e of Compline at 9.00pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. This year, the Festival features three Lunchtime Concerts at 1.00pm, the first on Thursday 28th July given by Gary Davison and Julie Keim, the second on Friday 29th July given by the Exon Consort and on Saturday 30th, a Song Recital given by members of the choir.
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IDO AND AENEAS, Purcell's masterpiece of baroque opera, will be the opening concert of this year's
Exon Singers Festival, which takes place in Tavistock from Tuesday 26th to Sunday 31st July. Performed by
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