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Espressivo! Sun-drenched Italian choral music
Saturday 16 June 7.30 pm
Great Malvern Priory, Great Malvern
Saturday 30 June 7.30 pm
St Alban’s Church Highgate, Birmingham B12 0YF
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Saturday 16 June 7.30 pm
Great Malvern Priory, Great Malvern
Saturday 30 June 7.30 pm
St Alban’s Church Highgate, Birmingham B12 0YF
Our Summer concerts are an eclectic selection of Italian choral music spanning 4 centuries.
Sun-drenched Italy has produced some of the greatest artists and musicians of all time. The Birmingham Bach Choir is celebrating some of the range of choral music which has come down to us over the centuries in a wide-ranging programme spanning four centuries and exploring both sacred and secular music.
Highlights from the programme include madrigals by two of the greatest Italians of their day, Claudio Monteverdi and Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who is as well known for having murdered his wife and her lover on discovering them in the act as for his amazingly expressive compositions. A programme of unusual music by famous composers who include Lotti, Gabrieli, Rossini and ending with three magical part songs by the 20th century choral master, Ildebrando Pizzetti.
These concerts will be performed in the wonderful acoustic of the Church of St Alban the Martyr, a magnificent building tucked away just outside the city centre in Highgate, Birmingham, and also in atmospheric Great Malvern Priory, originally a medieval Benedictine Monastery, right in the heart of Great Malvern.
All Tickets for both Birmingham & Malvern: £16 (£14 conc)
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THE PROGRAMME
G Gabrieli:
Exultavit cor meum a 6
Frescobaldi:
Kyrie (8 parts) from Missa sopra l’aria della
Monica a 8
Lotti:
Miserere mei
Monteverdi:
Rimanti in pace!
Ond’ ei, di morte
Rossini:
O salutaris hostia
Viadana:
Exsultate justi
Gesualdo:
Gioite voi col canto
S’io non miro moro
Itene, O miei sospiri
Pizzetti:
Tre composizione corali
Cade la sera (1942)
Ululate, quia proper est dies Domini (1943)
Recordare, Domine (1943)
Great Malvern Priory
St Albans Church, Birmingham
Coming soon......Brilliant Bach!
Saturday 24 November
St Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham
J S Bach: Cantata 29 Wir danken dir, Gott
Missa Brevis in G minor
BWV235 Cantata 21 Ich hatte viel bekümmernis
The orchestra and soloists are now booked:
Natalie Clifton-Griffith (sop), Simon Ponsford (counter-tenor), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor),
Julian Debreuil (baritone)