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Masses of Masses : Launched!
9 September 2014
The choir held its first rehearsal after the summer break last
night, and began preparations for our third concert with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra this year; a programme of movements from
Requiem settings by Fauré, Mozart, Rutter and Verdi, alongside other
music by Jenkins and Vaughan Williams, commemorating the centenary
of the start of the First World War. At tonight’s rehearsal, the
programme of events for 2015 was announced.
Bach - 28 March 2015
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Mozart - 27 June 2015
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In early 2014 a questionnaire was circulated amongst the choir and
our audience, to ask which works they would most like to sing, and the
top two helped us shape our 2015 series, Masses of Masses. Bach’s
Mass in B minor and Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor, were by
far the two most popular works, and the works of Haydn were not far
behind, so a series of Austro-German Masses of the seventeenth-century
was devised.
The concert-length Mass in B minor by our namesake, Bach, begins
the series on Saturday 28
March 2015, where we will be accompanied by the period orchestra
Charivari Agréable, and we continue on
Saturday 27 June 2015
with Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor alongside his
ever-popular Clarinet Concerto, performed by rising star and son
of Northampton, Harry Michalas. After the summer recess the choir return
with a Seasonal celebration of the Patron Saint of Children, Saint
Nicholas, on 5 December
2015, the Eve of his Feast Day. The choir will perform Haydn’s St
Nicholas Mass and his ‘Great’ Organ Solo Mass, and the
orchestra and guest soloists will perform his humorous Toy Symphony.
St Paul's Cathedral - 26 October 2015
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Alongside our three major concerts – and these are large-scale
concerts with orchestra and soloists – the choir will be singing Choral
Evensong in Coventry
and St Paul’s Cathedral,
as part of its long term “In Sacred Spaces” series. Over recent years
the choir has sung at Gloucester and St Paul’s Cathedral here in
England, at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and the St Peter’s Basilica in
Rome. These two services continue our exploration of some of the
greatest acoustics in Europe, and they are delighted to reprise their
earlier performances of Adrian Self’s Responses and Henry Smart’s
Evening Service in Bb, and will perform for the first time Samuel
Wesley’s motet, Exultate Deo.
Coventry Cathedral - 17 October 2015
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Haydn - 5 December 2015
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2015 will be a very exciting and busy year for the choir, and we are
sure that our major concerts will all sell out fast – buy your tickets
now (Season Tickets are, for the first time, available) to avoid
disappointment later! |
