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| When: | |
Saturday 17 May 2008 at 19:30 |
| Where: | |
Guildford Cathedral, Guildford |
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| Concert Title: | |
Classical Countdown - A 60th Anniversary Concert |
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| Performers: | |
Vivace Chorus Jeremy Backhouse, conductor |
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| Programme : | | Benjamin Britten |
| 1: | | Te Deum in C |
| Samuel Barber | |
| 2: | | Adagio for Strings, Op 11 |
| Sir Edward Elgar | |
| 3: | | Lux Aeterna (choral arrangement of Nimrod) |
| Gabriel Fauré | |
| 4: | | Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11 |
| Gustav Mahler | |
| 5: | | Adagietto from 'Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor' |
| Karl Jenkins | |
| 6: | | Requiem |
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| Note: | |
This programme brings together some of the most beautiful music for choir, harp and string orchestra. Britten’s exuberant Te Deum opens the concert. This work is most often heard in a liturgical setting with organ accompaniment, but here the Vivace Chorus gives it a rare but welcome outing in the version for choir, harp and strings. For the same forces the choir sings the evergreen Cantique de Jean Racine, one of Fauré’s most entrancingly beautiful works, and very much in the same compositional vein as his Requiem. One of Elgar’s most popular pieces is Nimrod from the Enigma Variations. Here we hear it in an astonishing arrangement for choir alone, using an extract from the Latin Requiem, Lux aeterna. None of the nobility and grandeur is lost in this glorious setting. The orchestra will play two of the most popular pieces for strings ever written: Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings, with all its searing, intense beauty, and the sublime Adagietto from the Symphony No 5 by Gustav Mahler. One of the highlights of the Vivace calendar in recent years was our performance of Karl Jenkins’s Mass for Peace: The Armed Man, a hugely popular and successful concert. Now we are staging his equally loved Requiem as part of our on-going series of Contemporary Choral Classics. |
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| Ticket Prices: | |
£20, £15, £10 (£5 students) - Tickets available from Guildford Tourist Information Centre, 01483 444334 or Michael Taylor, 07958 519741 |
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Show Dates |
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| Web Links: | |
Promoter Vivace Chorus Venue |
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| Venue: | |
Guildford Cathedral Stag Hill Guildford Surrey GU2 7UP England |
| Email: | |
reception@guildford-cathedral.org |
| Phone for enquiries: | |
01483 547860 |
| Fax: | |
01483 303350 |
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