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High Street Methodist Church
High Street
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 2RU
England
Programme
Knut Nystedt – Prayers of Kierkegaard
George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Arvo Pärt – The Beatitudes
Urmas Sisask – Benedictio
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Four Shakespeare Songs
Orlando di Lasso – Je l'aime bien
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Cor dulce, cor amabile
Kim Porter – Der Fluss (World premiere)
Tõnu Kõrvits – The Night is Darkening Round Me
Performers
Benjamin Kirk – Conductor
Lea Singers
Programme Note
We celebrate 60 years of town-twinning with Harpenden’s Friends of Alzey and Friends of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire.
Found in Translation explores settings of texts in languages other than the composer’s mother tongue. These include Händel’s Zadok the Priest and Mäntyjärvi’s Four Shakespeare Songs, as well as an intriguing selection of music from composers born as far apart as Estonia and Brazil.
The highlight of the concert will be the premiere of a new piece by Kim Porter, Der Fluss, which sets text from Hermann Hesse’s Siddharta. We are grateful to the Friends of Alzey and Cosne for sponsoring this commission.
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