In Brightness Arrayed at Leeds Minster, Leeds on Sunday 24th June 2018

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

In Brightness Arrayed

Add to my Calendar 24-06-2018 17:30 24-06-2018 19:30 36 In Brightness Arrayed St Peter’s Singers are thrilled to announce the first performance of an exciting new work by the brilliant and highly-respected composer Philip Moore. Tu es Petrus – a setting of words spoken by Christ to St Peter - was commissioned by the choir as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations and will be sung for the first time at their recital in Leeds Minster at 5.30pm on Sunday 24th June. In the composer’s own words “The anthem seeks to illustrate the dramatic quality of the text.  To be told that you are the rock on which the church will be built must have been both terrifying and uplifting”. Leeds Minster, Leeds DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Leeds Minster
Kirkgate
Leeds
LS2 7DJ
England

Sunday 24th June 2018
5:30 PM

Programme

Edward Naylor – Vox Dicentis
Philip Moore – Tu es Petrus (2018)
Matthew Oglesby – Picking fruit on the Eve of the Transfiguration
George Dyson – Fantasia and Ground Bass for organ
Judith Bingham – Touched by heavenly fire
Arvo Pärt – Magnificat
Maurice Duruflé – Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op.10
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Hear my words, ye people

Performers

David Houlder – organ
Simon Lindley – Conductor

St Peter's Singers

Programme Note

St Peter’s Singers are thrilled to announce the first performance of an exciting new work by the brilliant and highly-respected composer Philip Moore. Tu es Petrus – a setting of words spoken by Christ to St Peter - was commissioned by the choir as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations and will be sung for the first time at their recital in Leeds Minster at 5.30pm on Sunday 24th June.

In the composer’s own words “The anthem seeks to illustrate the dramatic quality of the text. To be told that you are the rock on which the church will be built must have been both terrifying and uplifting”.

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