Our regular programme of visiting Sacred Spaces near and far
continues, following visits to Lichfield and Peterborough in 2017,
and with a visit to Worcester Cathedral later in 2018, and
Westminster Abbey in 2019.
We take to Windsor a programme of works which are part of our 2018
concert programme. Bryan Kelly’s Evening Service in C will
feature in our concert on Saturday 28 April 2018, in the presence of
the composer himself, who has arranged the work for chorus, organ,
harp, timpani, and percussion. We sing the work, which is founded
upon Latin American rhythms, in its original format for chorus and
organ at Evensong. Marcel Dupré’s motet Laudate Dominum will
be performed in our concert on Saturday 23 June 2018, in a programme
of great French choral music, also including works by Alain,
Castagnet, Duruflé, Poulenc, and Vierne. This work matches Kelly’s
Evening Service in C in its lack of rhythmic inhibition: it
is an exultant outburst of praise, with a memorable tune and a
virtuoso toccata figuration in the organ accompaniment. Our own
Musical Director’s Preces and Responses, composed for the
Peterborough Diocesan Choral Festival in 2017, have been sung by the
choir on a number of occasions, and provide a moment of calm amongst
these festive works.Programme:
Northampton Bach Choir
Organist - Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
Dunleavy - Preces and Responses (2016)
Kelly - Evening Service in C (1965)
Dupré - Laudate Dominum from Quatre Motets (1916) |
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