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New Hall - Winchester College
College Walk
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9NG
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – Serenade for String Orchestra in E Minor, Op.20
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – Mass in C major, Op.169
~ Interval ~
Florence Price – Andante Moderato
Malcolm Archer – Requiem
Performers
Hilary Cronin – soprano
Anita Monserrat – mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Budd – tenor
Malachy Frame – Bass
Jamal Sutton – Conductor
Oliver Tarney – Conductor
Winchester Music Club
Programme Note
Winchester Music Club is delighted to return to New Hall under the batons of Oliver Tarney, Head of Academic Music at Winchester College, and Jamal Sutton, Assistant Director of Music and Organist at Charterhouse School and formerly Assistant Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College.
The concert opens with Edward Elgar Serenade for Strings which was reportedly one of Elgar's own favourite pieces and the last one he recorded before he died. The WMC Choir and Orchestra will then perform Josef Rheinberger's Mass in C. This is a glorious work, rarely performed, with highly expressive, lyrical and cantabile writing of a Brahmsian nature. Andante Moderato by American composer Florence Price will start the second half of the concert. It shows the influence of Dvořák and other late Romantic composers, but its melodies bear the distinct pentatonic stamp of the African-American spiritual tradition. The concert ends with Malcolm Archer's Requiem, a sensuous setting of the Mass, published in 1993, when he was working in USA and before he returned to the UK first as Director of Music at St. Paul's Cathedral and then Head of Chapel Music at Winchester College.
We have a wonderful quartet of soloists with a mixture of experience and youth.
