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A celebration of Cambridge University's 800th anniversary. Vaughan Williams: The Wasps - Overture. Ryan Wigglesworth: The Genesis of Secrecy. Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs.
Tom Service presents a celebration of Cambridge University's 800th anniversary with a concert of music given by a convocation of the university's college choirs, featuring two soloists and a conductor who are among its graduates. As professor of music, Thomas Stanford taught Vaughan Williams, who wrote his Wasps Overture for a university staging of Aristophanes's comedy, and later set verses by a former University Orator, George Herbert, in his Five Mystical Songs. Ryan Wigglesworth went to Oxford but is now a Cambridge lecturer and fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Choirs of King's, St John's, Clare, Gonville and Caius and Trinity Colleges
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Vaughan Williams: Overture (The Wasps)
Ryan Wigglesworth: The Genesis of Secrecy (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission; world premiere)
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs.
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