In Time of War features music encompassing a kaleidoscope of emotions, forged during the heat of armed conflict.
At the height of the siege of Budapest in 1945, Kodály had taken refuge in the cellar of the Budapest Opera House, where he completed his dramatic and passionate Missa Brevis. Schütz wrote his collection of Geistliche Chormusik during the Thirty Years’ War as a legacy to future young composers, in the belief that his world was about to be utterly destroyed. In 1918, Howells’s turbulent 3rd Rhapsody for organ was written in a single night during a Zeppelin raid over York. Standing as I do before God by City Chamber Choir President, Cecilia McDowall is, as the composer says, a reflection on the eve of Edith Cavell’s death, 12 October 1915. Britten’s scintillating Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard was written for, and first performed by, British prisoners of war in Germany.
There is much beauty and profundity to be experienced in this programme of music shaped and overshadowed by war.
St Mary-le-Bow
Cheapside
London
London
EC2V 6AU
England
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