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Twentieth Century American Choral Masterpieces
with Bath Phil
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Copland - Quiet City
Paul Carr - Air for Chamber Orchestra (first performance)
Counter-Tenor Kevin Beckett
Organ Steven Hollas
Conductor Gavin Carr
The Chichester Psalms contain some of Bernstein’s
liveliest and most heartfelt music. The eclectic mix of
jazzy and religious idioms really stimulate!
Lux Aeterna is one of the most beautiful things ever
written for choir - hauntingly lovely, very much of the
moment in its spiritual values.
Bath Abbey
Saturday 22nd November 2008, 7.30pm
Tickets £18, £15, £10 reserved, £8 unreserved;
NUS & under 18s £5,
from Bath Festivals Box Office 01225 463362 or www.bathfestivals.org.uk |
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Voices and Brass
with Bristol Brass Consort
Rutter - Gloria
Purcell -
Funeral Music for Queen Mary,
Hear my prayer, O Lord
Bruckner -
Locus iste,
Os justi,
Christus factus est
Conductor Lucy Griffiths
Rutter’s Gloria is a zesty, rhythmically stimulating piece
with his regular trademarks, pumped up by brass consort
and organ.
The Purcell and Bruckner pairing is far from obvious
but Bruckner’s conservative breadth and beauty and
Purcell’s majestic intensity make an intriguing mix.
St Mary’s Bathwick
Saturday 21st March 2009, 7.30pm
Tickets £15, £10, £8 all unreserved;
NUS & under 18s £5,
from Bath Festivals Box Office 01225 463362 or
www.bathfestivals.org.uk |
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Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony
In aid of RNLI
with The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster
The Mid-Somerset Orchestra
Arnold - The Padstow Lifeboat
Mendelssohn - Overture The Hebrides
Stanford - Fourth Irish Rhapsody
Soprano Amanda Roocroft
Baritone William Dazeley
Conductor Gavin Carr
A Sea Symphony is an alliance of souls
between Vaughan Williams noblehearted
Englishness and Walt Whitman’s
ecstatic free-thinking liberality. From the
opening page we hear and feel the spray
of the sea through massed forces of choir
and full orchestra.
Wells Cathedral
Saturday 11th July 2009, 7.00pm
Tickets £25, £20, £15, £10 on sale from 1st May 2009
from Bath Festivals Box Office 01225 463362 or
www.bathfestivals.org.uk,
Wells Cathedral Bookshop 01749 672773,
Warminster Tourist Information 01985 218548 |
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