The Yorke Trust has a rich history of presenting a variety of concert and opera performances in the beautiful, idyllic setting of South Creake and its surrounding areas. Here are some of the projects that we have undertaken since foundation.
Christmas Opera Production 2017 Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
Summer Opera 2017 Handel Susanna
Easter Choral Course 2015 Handel L’allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato
Summer Opera 2014 Christoph Willibald Gluck Armide
Easter Choral Course 2014 Henry Purcell: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation Benjamin Britten: Hymn to the Virgin J. S. Bach: Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV.227 Heinrich Schütz: Musikalishe Exequien Heinrich Schütz: German Magnificat Johannes Brahms: Marian-Lieder, Opus 22
Summer Opera 2013 Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream
Easter Choral Course 2013 Carissimi Jephte (1648) Purcell Laudamus Caeciliam (1683) Purcell Welcome to All the Pleasures (1683) Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia Op.27 (1942) Handel Four Coronation Anthems (1727)
Summer Opera 2012 Scenes of Enchantment, Comedy and Romance
Easter Choral Course 2012 Bach St John Passion
Summer Opera 2011 Monteverdi L'Orfeo
Easter Choral Course 2011 Works by Adrian Batten c.1591-1637, William Byrd 1540-1623, Edward Elgar 1857-1934, Hubert Parry 1848-1918 Charles Villiers Stanford 1852-1924, Tomás Luis de Victoria c.1548-1611
Summer Opera 2010 La vie Parisienne and Cities of Dreams (Opera Scenes).
Easter Choral Course 2010 Bach Cantatas No.6 and No.104 Motet Komm, Jesu, Komm BWV 229 Orchestral Suite No.1 BWV 1066
Summer Opera 2009 Rameau Castor et Pollux
Easter Choral Course 2009 Handel Israel in Egypt Handel Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No.2 in F
Summer Opera 2008 Handel Theodora
Easter Choral Course 2008 Bach Magnificat Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Bach Cantata 67 Halt im Gedächtnis Jesus Christ
Summer Opera 2007 Purcell Dido & Aeneas John Frederick Lampe Pyramus & Thisbe
Easter Choral Course 2007 Thomas Tomkins What David Heard John Adams Shaker Loops Handel Dixit Dominus
Easter Choral Course 2006 Bach Cantatas No.9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her No.23 Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn No.93 Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor BWV1060a
Summer Opera 2005 World Première – Norfolk and London - Yorke Trust commission Jonathan Keates & Gerard McBurney The Airman’s Tale
Easter Choral Course 2005 Handel Messiah
Summer Opera 2004 Houghton Hall performance in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales Handel Samson
Easter Choral Course 2004 Vivaldi Gloria Vivaldi Magnificat Vivaldi Four Seasons Scarlatti Dixit Dominus
Summer Opera 2003 Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea
Summer Opera 2002 World Première – Yorke Trust commission Kevin Crossley-Holland & Rupert Bawden The Sailor’s Tale
Easter Choral Course 2002 Bach Cantata No.5 Wo soll ich fliehen hin? Cantata No.105 Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 Cantata No.75 Die Elenden sollen essen
Summer Opera 2001 Handel Julius Caesar
Easter Choral Course 2001 An 80th birthday tribute for Sir Malcolm Arnold, CBE – performed in the presence of the composer Arnold, Britten, Byrd, Handel, Howells, Purcell, Tallis and Walton
Summer Opera 2000 Rameau Hippolytus and Aricia
Easter Choral Course 2000 Bach Matthäus-Passion
July 1999 Norfolk & October 1999 Manchester Claudio Monteverdi The Return of Ulysses
Easter Choral Course 1999 Bach St John Passion
Easter Choral Course 1998 Bach Cantatas No.50 Nun ist das Heil und der Kraft No.51 Jauchzet Gott No.80 Ein feste Burg
Summer Opera 1998 Handel Semele
Summer Opera 1997 Purcell King Arthur
Easter Choral Course 1997 Haydn The Creation
Easter Choral Course 1996 Mozart Requiem Haydn Nelson Mass Purcell Funeral Music
Easter Choral Course 1995 Bach Mass in B minor
Easter Choral Course 1994 Handel Messiah
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