Season 2009 - 2010
A selection of performances from our 2009 - 2010 Season with concert details, programme and audience comments and reviews.
Monday 30th November 2009 at 7.30pm
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Monday 30th November 2009 at 7.30pm |
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Derngate Concert Hall, Guidhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP |
| Concert Title: |
Beethoven's Choral
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| Programme: |
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 Choral |
| Performers: |
Chloe Hanslip – violin
Helena Dix – soprano
Anne-Marie Owens – contralto
Daniel Norman – tenor
Paul Putninš – bass
Northampton Bach Choir – Musical Director: Lee
Dunleavy
Daventry Choral Society – Musical Director: Alexander
Walker
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicolae Moldoveanu – Conductor |
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In his last completed symphony, the “Choral”, Beethoven effectively redefined the genre. The highly charged expressive power of the first three movements find release in the extraordinary finale, a setting for chorus and soloists of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”, in which the composer makes an impassioned appeal to humanity for universal harmony. The Bach Choir will be joined by Daventry Choral Society, and soloists Helena Dix, Anne-Marie Owens, Daniel Norman and Paul Putninš with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra all conducted by the dynamic Romanian conductor Nicolae Moldoveanu. Also on the programme will be Max Bruch’s classically romantic Violin Concerto No.1 with the young violinist Chloe Hanslip. Tickets for this concert are only available through the Derngate Box Office, Tel: 01604 624811 or on line at www.royalandderngate.co.uk
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Saturday 13th March 2010 at 6.00pm
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Saturday 13th March 2010 at 6.00pm
This performance should finish at approximately 9.30pm
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St. Matthews Church, Kettering Road, Kingsley, Northampton, NN1 4RY
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| Concert Title: |
J. S. Bach - St. Matthew Passion
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| Programme: |
J S Bach: Passion According to St. Matthew |
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Evangelist – Daniel Norman
Christus – Giles Underwood
Rachel Bedford – soprano
Mavis Wilmshurst – contralto
Stephen George – tenor
Robert Kingham – bass
Northampton Bach Choir
Boys of All Saints Church, Northampton
Charivari Agréable
Lee Dunleavy – conductor |
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To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Choir we return to our roots to perform Johannes Sebastian Bach’s great Passion According to St. Matthew. With a double orchestra playing on period instruments, six soloists and a separate Treble Choir this will be a monumental performance, and to enhance understanding of the music the work will be sung in English to the edition prepared by Ivor Atkins and Edward Elgar. The part of the Evangelist will be sung by Daniel Norman, the Christus by Giles Underwood and the orchestra is the Oxford based Charivari Agréable who have accompanied the Choir on a number of occasions in recent past. |
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Saturday 14th November 2009 at 7.30pm
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Saturday 14th November 2009 at 7.30pm |
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St. Matthew’s Church, Kettering Road, Kingsley, Northampton, NN1 4RY |
| Concert Title: |
Requiem & Reflections |
| Programme: |
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Ricine
Craig Phillips: Dies Gratiae |
| Performers: |
Katy Crompton - soparano
Rodney Clarke - baritone
Solo Violin - Peter Thomas
Northampton Bach Choir
Queens Park Sinfonia
Lee Dunleavy – conductor
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This concert will include two beautiful choral pieces by the French composer Gabriel Fauré, the miniature Cantique de Jean Racine and his Requiem. The former is a setting of a devotional poem by that great French tragic poet, Jean Racine, and the Requiem inspired by the death of his parents and using a non-liturgical text. The orchestration consists on lower strings, a small wind section and a solo violin gives the music a warm tine colour. Coupled with the Requiem, the Choir will give the UK Premiere of Craig Phillip’s Dies Gratiae – Requiem Reflections. This was written as a companion piece to Fauré’s setting of the Requiem and is scored for exactly the same orchestra, soloists and chorus. The original text by John Thornburg uses six sections of the Requiem Mass, each being set firstly as a short statement for soloists, followed by a reflection on those words for the chorus. Craig Phillips is Associate Director of Music and Composer in Residence at All Saints’ Church, Beverley Hills, and holds a Doctorate in Composition from the prestigious Eastman School of Music, Rochester in New York State. The soprano soloist will be Katy Crompton, and the orchestra the Queens Park Sinfonia. |
Audience Feedback
Many Congratulations! The new Philips work was absolutely sensational. Everyone I have spoken to who heard it was bowled over by the suberb rendition and balance of choir orchestra & organ which all reflected the composers intended mood. A triumph for the choir and I am so glad I didn’t miss the concert.
JM Earls Barton
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Monday 28th June 2010 at 7.30pm
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Monday 28th June 2010 at 7.30pm |
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Royal Albert Hall, London
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| Concert Title: |
Grand Opera Gala
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| Programme: |
TBC |
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Northampton Bach Choir – Musical Director: Lee Dunleavy
Royal Choral Society
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Natasha Marsh – soprano
Alfie Boe - tenor
Owain Arwel Hughes – conductor |
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On Monday 28th June 2010 the Northampton Bach Choir returns to the Royal Albert Hall in London to join with the Royal Choral Society and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of opera excerpts under the baton of Owain Arwel Hughes and with soloists Natasha Marsh (soprano) and Alfie Boe (tenor). Details of the programme will be announced when available. Tickets are available from the Royal Albert Hall Box Office Tel: 0845 401 5040 or on line at www.royalalberthall.com Groups of 10 or more may be able to book via the RPO and further details of this will be available later, and if demand is sufficient a supporters’ coach will be run, and details of this will also be announced at a later date. |
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We endeavour to supply full and accurate information but cannot be held responsible for changed circumstances which may necessitate the substitution of artists or changes to the programme. |
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Audience Comments
I never thought I'd describe a concert at the Royal Albert Hall as "intimate", but that's exactly what it felt like ...an intimate, very informal "Royal Opera Gala" with amazing and very engaging soloists, a world-class orchestra complete with kettledrums and an anvil and, of course, our "very own" Northampton Bach Choir along with the Daventry Choral Society who were every inch the professionals - in sight and sound. I was both very proud and immensely pleased to be a part of the audience.
A privilege...
G.S. of Brington
A very professional performance delivered with confidence, expertise and just the right amount of fun! In nice impromptu exchanges with the audience, the entire program was a delight and the combined choirs a triumph of sound and emotion. A memorable experience.
C.H. of Hemel Hempstead
Saturday 19th December 2009 at 7.30pm
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Saturday 19th December 2009 at 7.30pm |
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St. Matthew’s Church, Kettering Road, Kingsley, Northampton, NN1 4RY |
| Concert Title: |
Carols for Christmas |
| Programme: |
Carols for Christmas |
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Northampton Bach Choir
Woodland View School Choir - Director:Bev Affleck
Roger Palmer - organ
Lee Dunleavy – conductor |
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This year, the Bach Choir’s annual concert of Carols for Christmas will have as its theme Animals, with carols from around the world each mentioning animals, from Ox and Ass, to Lambs and Donkeys, and even a Portuguese Wolf. There will be plenty of carols for the audience to join in and it is hoped that there will also be a guest appearance from a school choir.
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