A RURAL church in the Herefordshire countryside is an apt setting for a concert titled Themes of Innocence and Experience, says Ruairi Bowen, son of Hereford Cathedral organist and choirmaster, Geraint Bowen and soprano wife, Lucy, who will be performing the latest Concert for Craswall with Alex Stobbs.

The young tenor and pianist will be at St Michael’s Church in Michaelchurch Escley, from 7.30pm on Saturday, March 18, with a programme of Anglo-Welsh song using wildlife and the natural world to explore the themes, while recognising the impact of military and cultural warfare.

Innocence will be represented by Richard Rodney Bennett's The Aviary, followed by Caneuon y Tri Aderyn (The Songs of The Three Birds) by the Welsh composer Dilys Elwyn-Edwards.

Experience will be represented through Ivor Gurney's settings of the war poet Edward Thomas and will finish with Michael Tippett's cantata, Boyhood's End, written for Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

Tickets are £15. Please send a cheque and sae to ‘Concerts for Craswall’ Cranbourne, Bushbank, Herefordshire HR4 8EJ. Tel 01432849341 or e-mail: concertsforcraswall@outlook.com