Noye's Fludde

Neil Ferris conducts Britten's community opera based on a medieval Chester Miracle Play. David Wilson-Johnston and Catherine Wyn-Rogers as Mr and Mrs Noah lead a cast of child soloists as Sem, Ham, jeffett, their wives and Mrs Noah's circle of gossips. They are accompanied by an orchestra of massed strings, recorders, percussion, bugles, handbells, organ, and piano four-hands: student musicians and amateurs from the community playing alongside professionals such as the Brodsky Quartet, the recorder virtuoso Piers Adams, and Ensemblebash leading a battery of percussion, in which children 'basheurs' play tuned coffee mugs and cups sounding the first rain drops heralding the storm…