Gloucester Cathedral Choir (Adrian Partington) sang Janet’s Preces and Responses in their Evensong on December 9th 2015, broadcast live from Gloucester Cathedral.
On December 6th 2015 Choros gave the première of The Christmas Life, Janet’s setting of Wendy Cope’s poem for SATB and piano, commissioned by Choros director Janet Lincé for the choir.
Janet’s very popular settings of poems by John Clare come home to the choir which first performed them in 2009. Part of a varied programme “from Monteverdi to Moon River” given in the beautiful and acoustically fine Council Chamber of UDC. http://www.grantachorale.org.uk/event044.php
Southwark Cathedral in the City of London Festival National Youth Chamber Choir, conductor Ben Parry. As part of an all-Shakespeare programme The Play’s The Thing ,the NYCGB Chamber Choir will give the premiere of this SATB setting of the poet’s attempt to persuade a young man to get married by drawing an analogy between the harmonies of music and wedded bliss. https://www.nycgb.org.uk/summerfest15
Illumination Chamber Choir, conducted by Alexander Campkin, will give the first London performance of Janet’s popular song cycle of John Clare poems. Clare’s powerful evocation of nature and of his intense feelings for his first love are matched by the choral agility and melting beauty of the musical settings. Commissioned in 2009 by the family of Alfred Tealby, with support from OCR, the work was first performed in a special celebration of the life and…