FifteenB Choir Paul Ayres, conductor Malcolm Cottle, organ
Programme
:
(Franz) Joseph Haydn
1:
Mass No 7 in B flat, 'Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo' (Little Organ Mass), HobXXII/7
Robert Hugill
2:
Crossing, 2 Tagore Poems
3:
My Eyes are ever turned towards the Lord
4:
Choruses from 'Passion'
Note:
The centre piece of FifteenB’s 2008 concert will be a performance of Crossing, Robert Hugill’s moving setting of two poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Written for FifteenB, the work was premiered by them at the 2006 Chelsea Festival. This will be joined by a large scale work from the 18th century, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, with its sublime Benedictus with the glorious Soprano solo.
FifteenB will be giving the premiere of Robert Hugill’s Choruses from Passion new versions of settings of poems by the black American poet Carl Cook, originally from Passion which was premiered in 1998.