Burton Bradstock Festival, Dorset with David Juritz (violin) & Adrian Bradbury (cello)

Spring Concert for Burton Bradstock Festival

Baroque Variations: A Path Towards the Goldbergs

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Goldberg Variations BWV988
Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen (arranged David Juritz)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)  Music for a while
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764)  Hippolyte et Aricie: Ritournelle
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 1704) Sans frayeur dans ce bois
Marin Marais  (1656 – 1728)   Les voix humaines
Francois Couperin (1668 – 1733)  La Couperin
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – 1705) Imitazione delle Campane
William Byrd (1540-1623)  Pavan ’The Earl of Salisbury’
Andrea Falconieri (1585/6–1656)  Pascalle
Nicola Matteis (c.1650 –  c.1713)  Ground after the Scotch Humour
James Oswald (1710–1769)  The Marvel of Peru ‘Comic’
Juan Arañés (died c. 1649)  Una sarao de la chacona, ‘A La vida bona’
Francesca Caccini  (1587 – d. after 1641)  Ciaccona
Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747)  arr. J S Bach Adagio from Concerto in D minor BWV 974

 

 

The New Orleans

Chiltern Arts, Henley-on-Thames

Craig Ogden: Concert and Dinner on the Thames
Aboard the New Orleans, Hobbs of Henley, Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1AZ

Join chart-topping guitarist Craig Ogden aboard Hobbs of Henley’s flagship vessel, the New Orleans for a truly special evening.

After being welcomed on board, you’ll enjoy a glass of sparkling wine and canapés, followed by an hour of sublime music from Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo, Manuel de Falla and many more. After the concert a delicious two-course meal from Chef Chris Burns will be served while we make our way back along the river.

Concerto Premiere with Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Hall, Belfast

BBC Radio 3 New Music Show Invitation Concert at the Ulster Hall on 12 January 2023

Ulster Orchestra

David Brophy (conductor)

Craig Ogden (guitar)

Featuring contemporary works by four composers from the island of Ireland.

The Ulster Orchestra is joined by the classical album chart topping guitarist Craig Ogden for the premiere of Greg Caffrey’s “Environments II”, a work written for solo guitar with strings and percussion, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Richmond performing Frank Corcoron’s “My Alto Rhapsodies” based on his poems from a collection called “Haikus”.

There will also be performances of works by composers Anselm McDonnell and Ed Bennett. Anselm McDonnell’s “Coruscate”- which means bursts of light.

Royal College of Music, London – A Celebration of Julian Bream

Finale for the RCM Guitar Festival celebrating the life of Julian Bream.

Featuring performances by John Williams, John Etheridge, Christian Garrick, Craig Ogden, Ben Johnson, Matthew Wadsworth and Laura Snowden.

The programme is to include Giuliani’s Variazioni Concertanti op130 for two guitars, Songs from the Chinese by Benjamin Britten and movements from Schubert’s Guitar Quartet in G, D96 after Matiegka.

St Georges Chapel

St George’s Bristol, with Gary Ryan (guitar) and Exultate Singers

Spend an evening in the company of two charismatic and entertaining virtuosi of the guitar and Bristol’s accomplished chamber choir Exultate Singers.

Exultate SingersCraig Ogden  Guitar Gary Ryan  GuitarDavid Ogden Conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams 
Valiant-for-Truth
Silence and Music
Sonnet 71
A Choral Flourish – Exultate Deo
Heart’s Music
Gary Ryan Folk Song Suite
Thomas Hewitt Jones The Lark
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Romancero Guitaro
Juan de Anchieta Con amore, la mi madre

Craig Ogden and Gary Ryan team up with the choir for this concert of songs from around the world including the first performance of a suite of folk songs for choir and two guitars.

Falling in the week of the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of Britain’s best-loved composers, the concert includes some of his most beautiful unaccompanied choral pieces and explores his legacy as an important collector and arranger of folk songs. The Lark by Thomas Hewitt Jones is a setting of lines from the poem that inspired Vaughan Williams’ most famous piece The Lark Ascending.

The programme features music and sounds of Spain, with the inclusion of duets for two guitars and the set of Spanish poems Romancero Guitaro for choir and guitar by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.