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The choir were due to sing Choral Evensong in Southwell Minster in
Autumn 2020, but the Covid-19 situation led to the booked date being
rescheduled to May 2021. We will be singing on the eve of Trinity
Sunday, and the choir are proposing to sing the same programme as
they will sing at Lincoln Cathedral just a few days later. The programme is principally drawn from their Spring 2021 programme of music by Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries. The Magnificat is sung to the rarely-heard setting dating from 1774. Based on the eighth mode it is vibrant and uplifting and matches well with the Nunc dimittis setting from 1784 by J. Michael Haydn. The music of J. Michael Haydn’s more famous older brother is heard in the anthem, the chorus The Heavens are telling from his 1798 oratorio The Creation. The Responses will be sung to one of our own Musical Director’s settings of the Preces and Responses, written for the Peterborough Diocesan Choral Festival in 2016, and - as is our custom - the Psalms will be sung to chants by composers with a connection to Southwell. Please note that this proposed music list is subject to approval by the cathedral, which will be around Easter 2021. Programme:Northampton Bach Choir |