Exeter Festival Chorus

Kenneth Grahame’s timeless Wind in the Willows needs little introduction; here are all your favourite characters, Ratty, Mole and, of course, Mr Toad, set to music, complete with percussion, by John Rutter.

Bob Chilcott’s The Making of the Drum is an unusual and highly effective piece in five sections using poems which celebrate how the living spirit of the drum is brought alive. It’s an exuberant, rhythmic work that is hugely exciting.

Also in the programme are Czech composer Antonin Tu?apský’s beautiful setting of the Ted Hughes poem The Seven Sorrows, reflecting on the passage of summer into autumn, and Charles Stanford’s Songs of the Sea.