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2023

28 June 2023
A Rousing end to the 2022/23 Season with Viva Italia!
9 June 2023
Cathedral Visits - Summer 2023
12 May 2023
Simon Toyne appointed as our new Musical Director
20 March 2023
Dame Ethel Smyth Mass in D - A resounding success!
13 February 2023
The Ethel Smyth full score has arrived

2022

13 December 2022
Christmas 2022 Concert & Fundraising
1 October 2022
New Accompanist Announced
1 September 2022
2022/23 Season Launched
31 August 2022
2022/23 Season : Our Conductors
1 August 2022
2021/22 Season - Done!
30 July 2022
Another (!) Special Evensong
13 June 2022
Jubilee Proms - Staggering Success
30 May 2022
MD steps down after 15 years
29 May 2022
A Special Evensong
2 April 2022
Carmina in Style
1 March 2022
Song for Ukraine
21 February 2022
#22for22 Update
7 February 2022
The Armed Man

2021

16 December 2021
#22for22 is launched
4 December 2021
Christmas is Back! with a brassy bang!
6 November 2021
714 Days... Back in Concert
27 October 2021
660 Days... We're Back
4 October 2021
Annual General Meeting
1 August 2021
2021/22 Season Launched
7 June 2021
Expanding the Canon
18 May 2021
Live Singing started ... stopped
17 May 2021
Fridays and the Future
14 April 2021
Virtual Video
12 April 2021
Summer in the Alps
26 March 2021
Fridays at Four - Spring Done
9 March 2021
International Women's Day
22 February 2021
Cooking up a Feast
12 February 2021
Centenary Classics
11 January 2021
Classical Classics

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Classical Classics

11 January 2021

We return for our third full term at Home Choir via Zoom work on a programme of music by Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries, as the basis for a future concert programme. We had anticipated, before the advent of Covid-19, to be working through a series of Great Oratorios in 2021, and this term we should have been singing Haydn’s The Creation. Sadly, this was not to be, but our ever-prepared MD has put together a fascinating sequence of music which honours the choruses of The Creation and puts them into context.
 

Luigi Gatti (1740-1817)
 
J. M. Haydn (1736-1806)
 
 F. J. Haydn (1732-1809)
 
W. A. Mozart (1756-91)

The major work in the programme is Gatti’s Schöpfungsmesse (Creation Mass) in which the composer sensitively adapts entire movements from The Creation to the liturgical text of the Mass. Mozart and Haydn are represented in two other famous Latin texts, the Magnificat and Te Deum respectively, as well as Haydn’s dramatic motet, Insanæ et vanæ curæ (which has nothing to do with Insane and vain curates!). The famous Haydn’s (Franz Joseph) brother (Johann Michael) is also represented in his beautiful Nunc dimittis.

Mag Dr Eva Neumayr

Over the term we will have full rehearsals, sectional rehearsals, and we welcome guests to our Fridays at Four expert sessions including Mag. Dr Eva Neumayr, archivist at the Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria, and custodian of the music archive for the Archdiocese of Salzburg.

 • Schöpfungsmesse - Luigi Gatti (1740-1817) after F. J. Haydn
 • Insanæ et vanæ curæ - F. J. Haydn (1732-1809)
 • Magnificat, K. 193 - W. A. Mozart (1756-91)
 • Nunc dimittis, M. 355 - J. M Haydn (1737-1806)
 • Te Deum in C “Marie Therese" - F. J. Haydn (1732-1809)