A Season to Sing

'A Season to Sing' is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldis The Four Seasons to mark its 300th anniversary in 2025. Arranged for mixed voices and organ, A Season to Sing weaves into Vivaldis much-loved melodies texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The 40-minute work also includes a new setting by Forbes LEstrange of Ecclesiastes 3.2 To everything there is a season.The programme also includes other music by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, together with pieces for choir by Alexander L'Estrange and Sir John Rutter CBE. There will be one interval. The Four Seasons is the first piece of music I can remember hearing from my childhood. I used to dance around the sitting room to it! Joanna recalls. I thought a great way to mark its 300th anniversary would be to make it possible for choirs to perform it. Vivaldis tunes are so magnificent they deserve to be sung! - JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE"...simply beautiful choral writing by someone who knows, from a singer's perspective, how to compose music which every choir will want to sing." - SIR JOHN RUTTER CBE, composer.. A Season to Sing is a co-commissioning project with the Royal School of Church Music.