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
Organist - Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
Dunleavy - Preces and Responses
Psalms 142 and 143
Mozart - Magnificat, K. 193
J. M. Haydn - Nunc dimittis, MH 355
F. J. Haydn - The Heavens are telling from The Creation |
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