Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat
BWV 243
Bach's Magnificat in D major (BWV 243) is a setting of the biblical canticle of the Virgin Mary. Composed in 1723 and revised around 1733, it is scored for five vocal soloists, five-part choir, and orchestra. Its twelve movements range from jubilant choruses to intimate arias, making it one of Bach's most concentrated and brilliant sacred works.
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Movements
Part I - Magnificat
Part IV - Omnes
Part VII - Fecit potentiam
Part XI - Sicut locutus est
Part XII - Gloria Patri
Chorus
Chris Webb
Chris Webb is a bass and former choral scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, where he also sang with the University Chamber Choir. Now a lay clerk at Southwark Cathedral, he performs with the Monteverdi Choir, London Voices, Farm Street Singers and Blossom Street, and has sung abroad with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie. His operatic roles include Colline in Puccini's La bohème for Merry Opera Company and Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute for Opera Anywhere; he took part in ENO's Opera Works programme in 2016–17 and studies with Alex Ashworth.
Emily Kirby Ashmore
Emily Kirby-Ashmore is a singer who trained at King's College London and the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 2011. She has performed with Blossom Street, The London Quartet, Artis, the Southbank Sinfonia, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Monteverdi Choir and Deus Ex Cathedra. Recent solos include Handel's Dettingen Te Deum with the Southbank Sinfonia, Bach at Cadogan Hall with the English Chamber Orchestra (filmed for Channel 4's The Life of Alex), the St John Passion at St John's Smith Square, and the B minor Mass at Gloucester Cathedral.
Felicity Davies
Felicity Davies is a soprano who graduated from Trinity College of Music in 2010, winning the TCM Vocal Contemporary Prize. She sings with the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra and the Armonico Consort alongside a busy solo career, with oratorio credits including The Creation, Elijah, Mozart's Requiem and Messiah, and contemporary works by Judith Weir. Her operatic roles range across Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and The Pirates of Penzance, and she appeared at the BBC Proms in 2010.
Graham Neal
Graham Neal is a tenor who read music at the University of Surrey, winning the Robert Naylor prize, before further study on ENO's Knack course and at Trinity College of Music. His operatic work has taken him to the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, l'Opéra Comique and Grange Park Opera. As a consort singer he performs with the Monteverdi Choir, The King's Consort, Philharmonia Voices, English Voices, Sonoro, Orpheus Britannicus, the Hanover Band and Cappella Nova, and sings with the London Oratory choir.
Liam Dunachie
Liam Dunachie is a London-based pianist, composer, arranger and singer, and co-producer of the Chord Perfect recordings. At Cambridge he sang with the Choir of Trinity College under Stephen Layton, touring Europe, the USA and Australia and recording three albums, one of them Grammy-nominated in 2011. He went on to study jazz piano and arranging at the Guildhall School of Music and works as an accompanist, arranger and musical director on London's jazz scene.
Phillipa Thomas
Phillipa Thomas is a soprano who began in the Cantamus Girls' Choir before reading music at the University of York, where she took an MA, won the University Concerto Prize and became a founder member of Blossom Street. She continued her studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, winning the Conservatoire Singing Prize and placing as a finalist in several competitions. Alongside operatic work she remains active on the London choral scene and continues to sing with Blossom Street.
Robert Jenkins
Robert Jenkins is a tenor who took his BMus (Hons) at Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012, winning the Cecil Drew Oratorio Prize, and spent five years as Tenor Lay Clerk at Birmingham Cathedral. He sings with the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra, Polyphony, Philharmonia Voices, Siglo de Oro and the Proteus Ensemble, and with the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Chelsea Old Church and Westminster Cathedral. Alongside his choral work he maintains an active solo career and has appeared in a range of operatic roles.
Musical Director
Hilary Campbell
Hilary Campbell is a freelance choral conductor who founded and directs the professional chamber choir Blossom Street, and is Musical Director of Bristol Choral Society, Chiswick Choir and the Music Makers of London. Her guest conducting includes the BBC Symphony Chorus, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service Singers and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Chorus, whom she prepared for Mahler's Symphony No. 2 under Semyon Bychkov; she also directed the P&O Ferries Choir to victory in BBC Two's The Choir. She collaborates each year with Judith Weir at the Royal Academy of Music, works as an adjudicator and workshop leader, and is a published, prize-winning composer and founding member of the Voices of London Festival.
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