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Chester Music Society Choir
Chorales for a Spring Evening
Part of the Chester Music Society 2015-2016 Season
Add to my Calendar 12-05-2016 19:30 12-05-2016 21:30 36 Chester Music Society Choir Morten Lauridsen is one of America’s best loved modern composers. Lux aeterna was greeted by The Times after its London première as "a classic of new American choral writing...”. Mozart's Sparrow Mass (Spatzenmesse) is short in a simple structure, but festively scored with brass and timpani in addition to four soloists and organ. Giovanni Battista Draghi (1710-1736), better known as Pergolesi, wrote many works, sacred and secular, in his short life, some of which have been heard in films such as Amadeus and Farinelli. Chester Cathedral, Chester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Chester Cathedral
Saint Werburgh Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DY
England
Programme
Morten Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna (1997)
Joseph Haydn – Insanae et vanae curae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Spatzenmesse, K.220
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Magnificat in C major
Performers
Graham Eccles – organ
Graham Jordan Ellis – Conductor
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Programme Note
Morten Lauridsen is one of America’s best loved modern composers. Lux aeterna was greeted by The Times after its London première as "a classic of new American choral writing...”.
Mozart's Sparrow Mass (Spatzenmesse) is short in a simple structure, but festively scored with brass and timpani in addition to four soloists and organ.
Giovanni Battista Draghi (1710-1736), better known as Pergolesi, wrote many works, sacred and secular, in his short life, some of which have been heard in films such as Amadeus and Farinelli.
