In Sacred Spaces
Choral Evensong (St George’s Chapel, Windsor)
Wednesday 11 April 2018 at 5.15pm
 
 
  Date:  Wednesday 11 April 2018
  Time: 5.15pm
  Venue:  St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1NJ
 
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Our regular programme of visiting Sacred Spaces near and far continues, following visits to Lichfield and Peterborough in 2017, and with a visit to Worcester Cathedral later in 2018, and Westminster Abbey in 2019.

We take to Windsor a programme of works which are part of our 2018 concert programme. Bryan Kelly’s Evening Service in C will feature in our concert on Saturday 28 April 2018, in the presence of the composer himself, who has arranged the work for chorus, organ, harp, timpani, and percussion. We sing the work, which is founded upon Latin American rhythms, in its original format for chorus and organ at Evensong. Marcel Dupré’s motet Laudate Dominum will be performed in our concert on Saturday 23 June 2018, in a programme of great French choral music, also including works by Alain, Castagnet, Duruflé, Poulenc, and Vierne. This work matches Kelly’s Evening Service in C in its lack of rhythmic inhibition: it is an exultant outburst of praise, with a memorable tune and a virtuoso toccata figuration in the organ accompaniment. Our own Musical Director’s Preces and Responses, composed for the Peterborough Diocesan Choral Festival in 2017, have been sung by the choir on a number of occasions, and provide a moment of calm amongst these festive works.

Programme:

Northampton Bach Choir

Organist - Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
 
Dunleavy - Preces and Responses (2016)
Kelly - Evening Service in C (1965)
Dupré - Laudate Dominum from Quatre Motets (1916)