ENDELIENTA will open its Spring 2017 season with an unusual and exciting musical feast, as it hosts the dazzling chamber ensemble ‘Lavolta’ in St Endellion Church on Saturday, January 21.

The ensemble, featuring vocalists Sarah Owen and Kate Westbrook, together with an eleven-piece band, will present a concert of extraordinary and outlandish pieces of 20th century music.

The programme includes William Walton’s jaunty settings of Edith Sitwell’s poetry ‘Facade 2’ and Italian composer Luciano Berio’s ‘Folk Songs’, which pays tribute to the artistry of legendary American singer, Cathy Berberian.

The songs, from the United States, Armenia, France, Sicily, Sardinia, and elsewhere were chosen from old records, printed anthologies, or collected from folk musicians and friends.

The evening will also feature works by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music. Her ‘Really?’ is a set of three entertaining stories by J P Hebel and ‘The Brothers Grimm’ for small ensemble and voice.

The concert also includes more irrepressible music by another Italian composer, Franco Donatoni, the evocative cabaret of Kurt Weill and, from closer to home, Vaughan Williams’ settings of poetry by Houseman, Along the Field.

The Lavolta Ensemble will perform at St Endellion Church on Saturday, January 21, from 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £10 and are free for accompanied under-16s.

To book visit the website or call 07787 944935 or email [email protected] or in person from Wadebridge Bookshop.