The Palace Sessions
Southwell Minster State Chamber, Southwell, NG25 0HD
Friday 9th October 2026
Join us in the State Chamber – Nottinghamshire's premiere chamber music venue – for the first in a new series of Festival Chamber Concerts. The Festival's wonderful quartet of early-career professionals make a welcome autumnal return in a glorious programme of madrigals, partsongs and solo repertoire:
Die Harmonie in der Ehe - Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)Auf der Donau - Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Lorelei - Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Die Götter Griechenlands - Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Ganymed - Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Mille regrets - Josquin des Prez (c.1450/55–1521)
Les roses d’Ispahan - Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Nell - Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
La belle est au jardin d’amour - Trad., arr. Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Il est bel et bon - Pierre Passereau (fl.1509–1547)
Oyez! Has any found a lad? - Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656)
I’ll sail upon the Dog Star - Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Take, O take those lips away - Amy Beach (1867–1944)
The sky above the roof - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Fairest Isle - Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Fair Phyllis I saw - John Farmer (c.1570–c.1601)
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My Love is like a red, red rose - Trad., arr. Jim Clements (b.1983)
The Vagabond - John Ireland (1879–1962)
It was a lover and his lass - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
The Seal Man - Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979)
Herbstlied - Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Wie rafft’ ich mich auf in der Nacht - Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Mignon - Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
Zueignung - Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Der Gang zum Liebchen - Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Beth Yates soprano
Morven McIntye alto
Joseph Martin tenor
Edwin Hughes baritone
Paul Provost piano
