PINSUTI, the Ilkley and Skipton chamber choir conducted by Robert Webb returns to Skipton this Saturday, with a varied programme of choral music, combining earth, air, fire and water.

The concert, titled Earth, Air, Fire and Water, will take place at 7.30pm in Christ Church, on Keighley Road.

The elements feature in the airy scenes of nature captured in Finzi’s seven part songs, settings of lyric poetry by First World War poet Robert Bridges, including Clear and Gentle Stream and Nightingales.

More earth, air, fire and water will be provided by the young Finnish composer, Jaako Mäntyjärvi, who takes Shakespeare as his inspiration, in dramatic settings from The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Come Away Death from Twelfth Night and the atmospheric witches’ song from Macbeth, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble.

Pinsuti, which takes its name from the little known Victorian composer Ciro Pinsuti, will be singing three pieces by the popular contemporary American composer, Eric Whitacre.

The choir’s favourite Whitacre piece, Sleep, will be performed to a text by written by Charles Silvestri. Another pieces, Nox Aurumque, features the same partnership.

The final piece is the work which made the then 25-year-old composer’s name, Water Night, on a text by Octavio Paz.

Morten Lauridsen, also American, is also one of Pinsuti’s favourite choral composers, and he provides an abundance of fire through his impassioned Madrigali - six Fire Songs on Italian renaissance poems, concerning the pleasures and pains of love.

A Pinsuti spokesman said: “The concert will have an exciting and varied selection of music, which we hope will appeal to a wide variety of musical tastes and provide a very enjoyable evening.”

Tickets, which cost £8, are available from choir members or on the door, and the concert starts at 7.30pm. For more information, visit pinsuti.org.uk