MORE than 1,000 voices will bring Chester alive at the city’s Summer Music Festival.
The two-week event opens tomorrow with the return of Big Sing!, featuring choirs from across the region.
Some 700 performers will sing together in Chester’s Roman amphitheatre.
On Saturday, the festival’s choir-in-residence, Cries of London, will perform a concert of madrigals, Renaissance motets and music by Elgar, Brahms and Berio, while classical guitarist Xuefei Yang and the Elias String Quartet will perform on Sunday.
Andrew Cornall, former executive director at the Liverpool Philharmonic and now president of EMI Classics, returns as artistic director for the fifth year with a packed programme of concerts.
Other highlights include the Chester Festival Chorus and the RLPO performing Reubke and Brahms under the baton of Vasily Petrenko at Chester Cathedral, the all-Norwegian Tine Thing Helseth Quintet and Penguin Cafe presents Arthur Jeffes – Sundog.
“The 2012 programme will deliver a truly international festival with an exciting range of music, ideas, and extraordinary talent,” says a festival spokesperson.
“We have wonderful singers and choral groups including our own Festival Chorus performing across a wide spectrum of music but we’ll also showcase the explosion of talent from the Far East, we’ll revel in the music of the Great Romantics and we’ll showcase masters of their art in a wide range of musical genres.”
CHESTER Summer Music Festival runs from tomorrow to July 12. Further details at www.chesterfestivals .co.uk
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