Kieron-Connor Valentine (countertenor)
André Bertoncini, Jeremy Gray (piano)
Bampton Winds

Poulenc – Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Mozart ‘Son reo l’error confesso’ and ‘Gia dagli occhi il velo e tolto’, from Mitridate, re di Ponto
Rhys Jones  Cilfan y coed 
T Osborne Roberts  Y Gwanwyn Du 
Alain Boublil/Claude-Michel Schoenberg I Dreamed a Dream, from Les Misérables
Jake Heggie/Frederica von Stade Paper Wings: A Route to the Sky          

Francis Poulenc Hotel
Amanda McBroom  Calon Lan / The Rose
Charlie Chaplin Smile (from ‘Modern Times’)
Irving Berlin White Christmas

Mozart – Quintet in E flat major for piano and wind

Bampton Classical Opera presents its annual St Beornwald concert, an eclectic programme of music based around two majestic works by Mozart and Poulenc for piano and wind, played by artistic director Jeremy Gray and the wind instruments of the Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera.

Mozart’s beautiful quintet, for an unusual scoring, was considered by the composer at the time to be ‘the best thing I have written in my life’.  Poulenc’s trio, his first major chamber work, is noted for its depth of feeling, with touches of Mozartian flavour and echoes of other composers’ styles yet retaining its youthful verve.

Kieron Connor-Valentine and André Bertoncini, prize-winners in the 2023 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition, join us with songs and arias by the same composers as well as a foray into some contrasting light music, including some Welsh songs.