Hertfordshire Chorus: Mozart and Mendelssohn in St Albans Abbey

Mozart’s Mass in C Minor (the ‘Great Mass’) is far more ambitious and elaborate than even his magnificent Requiem. Although (like the Requiem) it was never completed, it is a wonderful work on the grandest scale, and considered by many scholars to be one of the greatest mass settings of all time. This sublime work is a real treat for all lovers of choral music, and St Albans Abbey is the perfect setting for a performance.

Mendelssohn’s rousing choral spectacle Die Erste Walpurgisnacht was hailed by Berlioz as a masterpiece of romanticism. A sort of musical ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, the piece tells a story of Druid pagan rituals in the Harz mountains.