Music at Fitzwilliam 2020/2021

A look at Fitz’s vibrant and diverse music scene, produced and presented by Director of Music Catherine Groom, with thanks to the following Fitz musicians (and additional thanks to Daniel Carter, Pierre Riley, Emily Beck and Jake Marshall for prior editorial work on some of the initial live-streams):
‘Hallowe’en’: arranged and performed by Louis Henry (double bass) and Freya Prince (saxophone)
Beethoven Romance for violin: Tejas Easwar (violin)
Beethoven ‘Appassionata’: Hannah Sherry (piano)
lehera: written and performed by Catherine Groom (Celtic harp) and Deepak Venkateshvaran (tabla)
Paul Creston saxophone sonata: Jonathan Jolly (saxophone) and Pierre Riley (piano)
Marais ‘Ste. Geneviève’: George Bird (violin), Rebecca Severy (cello) and Pierre Riley (harpsichord)
Rachmaninov prelude: Adithya Shenoy (piano)
Telemann sonata: Catherine Groom and Emily Callow (recorders)
Schubert Marche militaire: Pierre Riley and Pierre Riley (piano)
Girl from Ipanema: Fitz Swing featuring Tom Peirce (flute)
The Beatles ‘Come Together’: Hamish Duncan and Will Randell (guitars, vocals)
Isabella Leonarda: Imogen Rowe (soprano), Joanna Swainston (alto), David McIntyre (bass), Tilly Mattich (harpsichord)
Schubert ‘Trout’: George Bird (violin), Miriam Lay (viola), Rebecca Severy (cello), Louis Henry (double bass), Pierre Riley (piano)
‘Wellerman’: arranged and performed by Jack& Master actor-musicianship collective dir. Emily Beck
‘Pretending’: written and performed by Sophie Metcalfe (voice and piano)
‘You’ll never pull a sleigh on Christmas Eve’: written and performed by Alex Jarvis, George Bird and household (voices and assorted instruments)
‘A Psalm in time of Covid’: written by Rebecca Severy and Pierre Riley and performed by Rebecca Severy (soprano), Catherine Groom (alto), Pierre Riley (tenor), George Bird (bass)
‘Lord Jesus, think on me’: Fitz Chapel Choir
Amy Beach Nunc dimittis: Fitz Chapel Choir dir. Catherine Groom
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer: Fitz Chapel Choir dir. Catherine Groom
Peter Maxwell Davies ‘Yellow Cake Revue’: George Bird (bass), Joe Folley (baritone), Sarah Anderson (mezzo-soprano), Rebecca Severy (soprano), Daniel Gibson (baritone), Imogen Rowe (soprano), Pierre Riley (piano)
Prokofiev ‘Hebrew Themes’: Maurits Houck (clarinet), George Bird (violin), Tejas Easwar (violin), Miriam Lay (viola), Rebecca Severy (cello), Pierre Riley (piano)
‘Take me to church/Creep’: arranged and performed by Fitz Barbershop, arranged and directed by Ash Layo, video produced by John Conacher
Complete recordings of all the concerts and services mentioned, and many more, are to be found on the ‘Fitz Music’ and ‘Fitzwilliam Chapel’ CZcams channels.

[@davidhall3845]

Brilliant variety of performances here, and all under very difficult circumstances for enabling people to play with each other and to be heard by an audience, however small. Thank you very much indeed for making all of these clips available for us to hear. David Hall, president of music soc, 1979-80.

[@fitzwilliamcollegecambridge]

Many thanks! Delighted to hear that you enjoyed it!

[@TamsinJones]

Wonderful! I'm impressed by the diversity of talent. Thank you for sending me the link to this, Catherine.

[@fitzwilliamcollegecambridge]

Glad you enjoyed it!