Spode Music Week 2025 will run between Monday 11th August and Monday 18th August 2025 at Nettlecombe Court, Minehead, Somerset. More information will be uploaded to this page as it's confirmed.

2025 repertoire

Choral works

Course mass

Missa Confitebor tibi Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Directed by Rachael Shipard

Daily Mass & Compline

Director of Liturgical Music: Edward Tambling
Organist: David Bednall
Repertoire to include works by: Clemens non Papa, Dering, d'Evry, Gerarde, Kitson, Mozart, Perez, Phinot, Rheinberger, Rore and many more...

Other choral work

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Act 3 Scene 5 Richard Wagner arr Francis Bevan
Directed by John Gibbons
Chorus master: Felix McGonigal

Scratch work

Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell
Directed by Anthony Bevan

Junior Choir

Repertoire to include: I will sing of thy great mercies O Lord Mendelssohn
Directed by Daniel Wright

Orchestral works

Spode Philharmonic

Repertoire to include: Portrait of a flirt Robert Farnon
Directed by Elinor Corp

String orchestra

Repertoire TBC
Directed by Charlie Morris

Wind band

Repertoire TBC
Directed by Felix McGonigal

Junior orchestra

Repertoire to include: Largo from Xerxes Handel
Directed by Michael Bevan

Lectures

David Bednall: Wagner & Meistersinger

Fr Matthew Jarvis: Dominican chant

Kate Kennedy: In Search of Nightingales - the cellist, the princess and the spy

John Sloboda: Vincent Novello & the music of the Embassy Chapels

Recitals

Lawrence White (Baritone) & Rupert Jeffcoat (Piano)
Between English Earth and Sky': Songs of land, love and loss

Fr Robert Verrill OP (Trumpet) & Fr Dominic White OP (Organ)

Other course events

Country Dancing
Pub Quiz
Hot Club Guitars
Massed Recorders
Viol consort