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Beautiful Brahms for Summer
Saturday 24 June
St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth
Saturday 1 July
CBSO Centre Birmingham
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Saturday 24 June
St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth
Saturday 1 July
CBSO Centre Birmingham
Concerts start 7pm
Paul Spicer - conductor
John Thwaites - pianist
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PROGRAMME
Brahms: motets and part-songs
*Fest und Gedenksprüche (3 motets) op.109
*Two motets op.74
*Drei Quartette
*Intermezzi op.117
*Fünf Gesange op.104
* Vier Quartette op.92
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Choral music for a summer’s evening by Johannes Brahms, one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century.
His wonderfully melodic music draws you in at every point and connects on the deepest levels of our humanity.
It is rare for the Birmingham Bach Choir to focus on the music of one composer in its programmes – although each concert in the current season has done just that – Bach, then Rachmaninoff and now Brahms.
Our programme will be a heady mixture of sacred and secular music interspersed by piano music – the three unforgettable Intermezzi op.117 which complement, most especially, the two sets of Quartette op.64 and 92 which are both accompanied by piano. Amongst the other music we are performing, the Fünf Gesange Op.104, also secular pieces, are some of the most hauntingly memorable choral pieces in his output.
All the secular music comes after the interval, but we begin our concert with two sets of religious motets which vary in texture (some are for double choir) and complexity but all of which have Brahms’s inimitable stamp of musical authority which he wears so lightly as the music simply pours so naturally from him.
This will be a memorable concert and a rare opportunity to immerse ourselves in music which enriches the soul and warms the heart.
Paul Spicer
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BRIDGNORTH
24 June 7pm: St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth
Central Nave £20/£18 conc
Side Nave £17/£15 conc
Student £12
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BIRMINGHAM
1 July: CBSO Centre, Birmingham
£20/£18 conc
Student £12
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We are hugely grateful to The Sainsbury Trust for their kind support for this programme
THE VENUES:
St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth
East Castle Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4AL
The lovely church of St Mary Magdalene dominates the landscape of this pretty town.
For more details of St Mary Magdalen please visit: https://www.bridgnorthteamministry.org.uk/churches/bridgnorth-st-mary-magdalene/
For info about Bridgnorth, it’s cafes and restaurants, parking and travel: http://www.visitbridgnorth.co.uk
CBSO CENTRE
Berkley Street. Birmingham, B1 2LF
The concert will be in the heart of the CBSO Centre building:The Justham Auditorium.
It is a well equipped modern building with bar and cloakrooms.
For more details, location and travel: https://cbso.co.uk
Saturday 18 November 7 pm
St Paul’s, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
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Saturday 18 November 7 pm
St Paul’s, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
Birmingham Bach Choir
Paul Spicer: conductor
Martyn Rawles: organist
PROGRAMME
JS Bach: Fürchte dich nicht
D Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Liszt: Missa Choralis
Paul Spicer writes:
"A programme of three of the greatest composers creating a wonderfully contrasted but entirely complimentary trio of works. Bach’s Fürchte dich nicht is perhaps the most enigmatic of his canon of six great motets and therefore possibly the least performed. And yet it is full of the most wonderful joyful music which will make a thrilling start to this concert.
Domenica Scarlatti was an exact contemporary of JS Bach - both were born in 1685. Scarlatti of course was Italian and his great Stabat Mater is truly one the the most beautiful choral works of its period. The start Mater dates from 1715 at the height of his maturity and is one of the most moving choral works. Wonderful interplay of parts, great emotional connection and a work of huge spiritual intensity.
Liszt (1811-1886) was, oof course, form the next century. But his remarkable Missa Choralis was written while he was in Rome and so shares some connection with Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater. This work was written following the death of both his son and daughter, three years apart, after which he moved to live in a monastery just outside Rome where he took minor orders in the Catholic Church. This Mass is a result of his desire to influence music in the Catholic Church, returning to reflect elements of its greatest period in the 16th century when Palestrina was composing. Liszt’sMass is rarely performed these days and we look forward to persuading a new audience of it’s radiance in wonderful inventiveness and lyrical beauty"
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OUR FULL PROGRAMME 2023/4
Saturday 24 June
Beautiful Brahms
St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth
Saturday 1 July
Beautiful Brahms
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Saturday 18 November
Bach, Scarlatti & Liszt
St Paul’s Church, Jewellery Quarter
Sunday 17 December
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
St Paul’s Church, Jewellery Quarter
Saturday 9 March 7pm
St Matthew Passion
Lichfield Cathedral
Concessions are available for some concerts and apply to senior citizens, the registered unemployed, full-time students and children under 16.
Children under 16: special rate of £6 per ticket.
Tickets for carers accompanying a disabled person are available at a special price for the two tickets together
A group discount of 10% is available when purchasing 10 or more tickets.
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