Chester Music Society: Choir at Chester Cathedral, Chester on Saturday 16th May 2020

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Chester Music Society

Choir

Part of the Chester Music Society 2019-20 Season

Add to my Calendar 16-05-2020 19:30 16-05-2020 21:30 36 Chester Music Society The Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh-born poet and priest George Herbert from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. Like Herbert's simple verse, the songs are fairly direct, but have the same intrinsic spirituality as the original text. The first four songs are quiet personal meditations in which the soloist takes a key role, particularly in the third – Love Bade Me Welcome, where the chorus has a wholly supporting role. The final "Antiphon" is probably the most different: a triumphant hymn of praise that is also sometimes performed on its own, as a church anthem: "Let all the world in every corner sing". Bob Chilcott's wonderful setting of the Latin Missa Brevis, A Little Jazz Mass, was composed for the 2004 Crescent City Choral Festival, New Orleans. It says much for Chilcott’s skill that he has successfully brought together two very diverse traditions - the Latin mass and the jazz idiom - in such an expressive and entirely unforced way, an achievement that has generally eluded other composers who have tried something similar. John Rutter’s long-awaited new major work The Gift of Life is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth, of creation, and of life itself, offering a kaleidoscope of moods from contemplative and prayerful to majestic and inspirational. The work premiered in Cambridge in April 2016. Rutter sets his own words in a tender reminder that the gift of each day is precious, and that we have within us the power to find new possibilities and bring new hope of peace to our world.   Chester Cathedral, Chester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Chester Cathedral
Saint Werburgh Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DY
England

Saturday 16th May 2020
7:30 PM

Programme

John Rutter – The Gift of Life
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs
Bob Chilcott – Little Jazz Mass

Performers

Damian O'Keeffe – baritone
Graham Eccles – organ / piano
Graham Jordan Ellis – Conductor

Chester Music Society Choir
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Programme Note

The Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh-born poet and priest George Herbert from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.

Like Herbert's simple verse, the songs are fairly direct, but have the same intrinsic spirituality as the original text. The first four songs are quiet personal meditations in which the soloist takes a key role, particularly in the third – Love Bade Me Welcome, where the chorus has a wholly supporting role. The final "Antiphon" is probably the most different: a triumphant hymn of praise that is also sometimes performed on its own, as a church anthem: "Let all the world in every corner sing".

Bob Chilcott's wonderful setting of the Latin Missa Brevis, A Little Jazz Mass, was composed for the 2004 Crescent City Choral Festival, New Orleans. It says much for Chilcott’s skill that he has successfully brought together two very diverse traditions - the Latin mass and the jazz idiom - in such an expressive and entirely unforced way, an achievement that has generally eluded other composers who have tried something similar.

John Rutter’s long-awaited new major work The Gift of Life is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth, of creation, and of life itself, offering a kaleidoscope of moods from contemplative and prayerful to majestic and inspirational. The work premiered in Cambridge in April 2016.

Rutter sets his own words in a tender reminder that the gift of each day is precious, and that we have within us the power to find new possibilities and bring new hope of peace to our world.

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