Celebration 25 - Two Great Mass Settings: works by Haydn and Valls at Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds on Sunday 16th March 2025

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Celebration 25 - Two Great Mass Settings

works by Haydn and Valls

Part of the Leeds Baroque - 25th Anniversary Season

Add to my Calendar 16-03-2025 15:00 16-03-2025 17:00 36 Celebration 25 - Two Great Mass Settings Leeds Baroque open their 25th Anniversary season with two contrasting Mass settings: Haydn’s well-known Nelson Mass  - the Missa in angustiis (Mass for troubled times) scored for Voices,  strings,  three trumpets, and organ and, thanks to support from the Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain,  Valls’s Missa Scarla Aretina. This is scored for 3 part choir, single strings, two trumpets and harp. The programme opens with Vivaldi’s lively concerto for violin and organ – to give full rein to the Clothworkers Concert Hall organ, built by Goetz and Gwynn. Hadyn and Vivaldi may need little introduction but works by Valls are probably less well known. Valls’s most famous composition, the Missa Scala Aretina – founded on rising and falling scales became famous because of an audacious dissonance (an unprepared ninth sung by the second soprano at the words ‘miserere nobis’) that provoked a controversy carried out in a vigorous pamphlet war, an argument that continued for some five years between 1715 and 1720. Pre-concert talk by Peter Holman (free to ticket hoders) at 2:00pm Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Sunday 16th March 2025
3:00 PM

Programme

Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin and Organ in C minor, RV 766
Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
~ Interval ~
Joseph Haydn – Mass no.11 in D minor 'Nelson', Hob.XXII:11

Performers

Peter Holman MBE – Director
Asuka Sumi – baroque violin
Callum Anderson – organ
Philippa Hyde – soprano

Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra

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Programme Note

Leeds Baroque open their 25th Anniversary season with two contrasting Mass settings: Haydn’s well-known Nelson Mass - the Missa in angustiis (Mass for troubled times) scored for Voices, strings, three trumpets, and organ and, thanks to support from the Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain, Valls’s Missa Scarla Aretina. This is scored for 3 part choir, single strings, two trumpets and harp. The programme opens with Vivaldi’s lively concerto for violin and organ – to give full rein to the Clothworkers Concert Hall organ, built by Goetz and Gwynn.

Hadyn and Vivaldi may need little introduction but works by Valls are probably less well known. Valls’s most famous composition, the Missa Scala Aretina – founded on rising and falling scales became famous because of an audacious dissonance (an unprepared ninth sung by the second soprano at the words ‘miserere nobis’) that provoked a controversy carried out in a vigorous pamphlet war, an argument that continued for some five years between 1715 and 1720.

Pre-concert talk by Peter Holman (free to ticket hoders) at 2:00pm

Leeds baroque in the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

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