Hayes and Corelli Ensemble Are a Great Pair

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Corelli Ensemble & Evelyn Tubb Three Choirs Festival, St Mary de Lode, Gloucester THE Three Choirs' Festival is doing local composers proud this year - and not just the famous ones like Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams. William Hayes, who loomed large in the Corelli's concert, is largely forgotten these days. But in the 18th century, this Gloucester lad was rated highly as a composer and became Professor of Music at Oxford where he established the famous Holywell Music Room. Soprano Evelyn Tubb gave a pleasing account of his cantata Winter Scene At Ross, in which the music neatly matched the descriptive passages, ending with a suggested remedy for the winter of one's life.

Hayes' Ode To Echo is a longer, more ambitious work with echo effects provided by the flute and plenty of other orchestral colour. Its more varied nature afforded Miss Tubb plenty of scope to display in turn both her dramatic and her lyrical potential as well as her sense of humour.

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Hayes and Corelli Ensemble Are a Great Pair

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