April 2019
Jesu membra nostri
Dietrich Buxtehude and other Choral Music for Passiontide With Leicester Cathedral Choir (Dir. Chris Ouvry-Johns) Leicestershire Camerata, and David Cowen Organ April 2019 sees the renewal of our fruitful partnership with Leicester Cathedral, their Director of Music Christopher Ouvry-Johns and his talented singers. Following acclaimed performances of Bach’s St John Passion and Rosenmüller’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary alongside the Cathedral Youth Choir and Chamber Choir, we now give a joint concert alongside the main Cathedral Choir. Chorale will…
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Musical notes from across the pond
With Catherine Griffiths Mezzo-Soprano and David Cowen Piano. For our final concert of the season we are delighted to welcome back Mezzo-Soprano Catherine Griffiths, who has appeared as a regular visiting soloist with Chorale over the past few years. We present a programme of music from American and British Twentieth Century Greats, including Aaron Copland’s distinctive take on the Creation story of the book of Genesis, Michael Tippett’s striking Spirituals from A Child of our Time and the hauntingly beautiful…
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Mendelssohn: The Young Master
Tom Williams Conductor David Cowen Organ Avishka Edirisinghe Piano Danushka Edirisinghe ‘Cello Leicestershire Chorale is joined by talented young ‘cellist Danushka Edirisinghe and his pianist brother Avishka (a fomer choral scholar) for ravishing music by German romantic masters Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. Our young Meisters will play music to include some of Brahms’ Sonata in E minor and Mendelssohn's haunting Lied ohne Worte. This will bring balance to choral motets by Brahms, Mendelssohn and the latter's startling Te Deum…
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