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| 7 December 2024 | |
| 7.30pm Worcester Cathedral College Yard Worcester WR1 2LA Details: Web site | 140 voices sing Handel's glittering choral masterpiece, Messiah |
| 8 December 2024 | |
| 3.pm Huntingdon Hall Chapel Walk Worcester Worcestershire | Winter series - 2024/2025 Will Duerden, double bass Svetlana Kosenko, piano Gliere, 2 pieces for double bass op 32 Hertl, sonata for double bass Lili Boulanger. Nocturne Gliere. 2 pieces for double bass op 9 see www.worcserenade.co.uk |
| 13 December 2024 | |
| 7.30pm Holy Trinity Church 146 Sloane Street, South Kensington London SW1X 9BZ Details: Holy Trinity Church Web site | Join us for our annual Christmas Concert of modern and traditional music for choir and audience. |
| 12 December 2024 | |
| 7.30pm St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Bishopsgate London EC2M 3TL Details: Web site £18 (£14 reduced price) | Red, White and Gold Orlando Chamber Choir Oliver John Ruthven, director Francesca Massey, organ Tallis: O nata lux Willcocks: Unto us is born a Son Tunder: Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme Poston: Sing unto the Lord Vaughan Williams: The truth from above Vaughan WIlliams: O little town of Bethlehem White: Christe qui lux es et dies IV Gibbons: As on the night Darke: In the bleak midwinter Willcocks: While shepherds watched their flocks Poston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Buxtehude: In dulci jubilo Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful In this concert of festive music, famous names are intertwined with less well-known ones. Elizabeth Poston, a stalwart yet unfamiliar English composer of the twentieth century, takes centre stage, with two settings of texts for Christmas. Poston studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and had a very successful career as a composer and performer during the male-dominated era of post-war Britain. Robert White, a prodigious talent who died young, is another unfamiliar name, especially when set against his more famous peer, Thomas Tallis. White’s Christe qui lux es et dies is his fourth setting of this text for Compline, and it must have therefore held a special appeal for him. Tallis and Gibbons, meat and drink for the singers of the Orlando Chamber Choir, provide contrasting settings of words celebrating the coming of Christ. Franz Tunder was the father-in-law of the famous organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude, and was a talented composer and musician in his own right. Director Oliver John Ruthven has arranged Tunder's motet Wachet auf! for choir and organ - it is a blueprint for the more extended cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach 70 years later and it uses the Lutheran hymn as its basis, much as Robert White uses the cantus firmus plainchant as the basis for Christe qui lux es et dies. The programme is interspersed with audience carols, and we will serve wine and mince pies during the interval. |
| 13 December 2024 | |
| 7.30pm St Cuthbert's church 50 Philbeach Gardens London sw5 9eb Details: VICTOR RUIZ Web site 02071014479 20 | Songs My Mother Taught Me Siying Chen Samuel Drapter Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Op. 48. 1. Gruss 2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein 3. Lauf der Welt 4. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall 5. Zur Rosenzeit 6. Ein Traum Richard Strauss (1864-1949) 1. Allerseelen op. 22. 2. Kornblumen Mädchenblumen Op. 22.No.1. 3. Epheu Mädchenblumen Op. 22.Nr.3. 4. Das Rosenband 4 Lieder Op.36.No.1. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 1. Von ewiger Liebe Op. 43.No.1. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) 1. Clair de lune Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) 1. Songs my mother taught me Gypsy Songs Op. 55.No.4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1797) 1. “Voi avete un cor fedele,” Mozart’s concert aria K. 217 Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021) 1. “The Trees on the Mountain” Opera Susannah Act ll, Scene 3 Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) 1. “Eccomi in lieta vesta” I Capuleti e i Montecchi Act l Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 1. Die Schöpfung https://www.siyingchen.co.uk/concerts/67030ac202e28fcfde192da1 |
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