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Holy Trinity Church
High Street
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 3RR
England
Programme
Mack Willberg – Tres Cantus Laudendi (Three Songs of Praise)
Sergei Rachmaninov – All-night Vigil (Vespers): Bogoroditse Devo
Johannes Brahms – Geistliches Lied, Op.30
Edvard Grieg – Ave maris stella, EG 150
Cesar Franck – Mass in A major: Panis Angelicus
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est, WAB 11
Anton Bruckner – Locus iste, WAB 23
Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria, WAB 6
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
Felix Mendelssohn – Hear My Prayer, WoO 15
Performers
Susanna MacRae – soprano
Michael Waldron – organ
Jonathan Willcocks – Conductor
Guildford Choral Society
Southern Pro Musica Brass
Programme Note
For this enchanting summer concert Guildford Choral, under the baton of renowned Musical Director and conductor Jonathan Willcocks, will join forces with Southern Pro Musica Brass, soprano soloist Susanna MacRae and organist Michael Waldron.
There’ll be great choral classics to be enjoyed in the generous acoustic of Guildford’s Holy Trinity Church, including music by Mendelssohn, Parry, Fauré and Rachmaninov.
The major work concluding this concert will be Mack Wilberg’s Tres Cantus Laudendi, or Three Songs of Praise. This piece, composed in 1990, is for chorus, brass, organ and percussion with texts based on the Psalms.
This concert is part of the Guildford Summer Festival.
