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Rejoice! The UK and USA come together
28 April 2018
This evening the Northampton Bach Choir were joined by forty
choristers from the great musical churches of Northampton - All
Saints and St Matthew’s, as well as organist Justin Miller, harpist
Elizabeth Bass, and a battery of percussion, to perform a programme
celebrating the great legacy of Walter Hussey,
Choristers in Rehearsal
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Hussey’s Northampton commissions were represented by Britten’s
Rejoice in the Lamb and Finzi’s Lo, the full, final,
sacrifice (as well as a short extract from Tippett’s Fanfare
written for St Matthew’s, arranged for solo organ by our Musical
Director, to help summon the audience back to their seats after the
interval). His Chichester commissions were represented by Bryan
Kelly’s Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C, which the composer
arranged especially for our concert for accompaniment by organ,
harp, and two percussionists, and, from the other side “of the
pond”, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
Chichester Psalms starts with a BANG
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A Stack of Percussion adds to Organ and
Harp
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Two stunning organ pieces completed the programme, and gave the
choirs a little moment of rest - Britten’s Prelude and Fugue on a
theme of Vittoria, also commissioned by Hussey, and
Northampton-born composer Robert Walker’s Fantasia and Fugue on
Themes of Britten, commissioned by a former Musical Director of
the Bach Choir, Simon Johnson, and based on themes from Britten’s
Rejoice in the Lamb.
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