Gounod - St Cecilia Mass & Puccini - Messa di Gloria at Royal Hall, Harrogate on Saturday 11th March 2023

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Gounod - St Cecilia Mass & Puccini - Messa di Gloria

Add to my Calendar 11-03-2023 19:00 11-03-2023 21:00 36 Gounod - St Cecilia Mass & Puccini - Messa di Gloria The Gloria is a joyful hymn of praise and Puccini's Mass for Four Voices and Orchestra, as it was originally known, written as his graduation thesis when he was only 22 years of age, is an unmistakably youthful work, but shows a mature grasp of musical conventions and is evidence of his operatic promise. Puccini himself wrote: "The Almighty touched me with his little finger and said, ‘Write for the theatre - mind, only for the theatre!’ ”    This is matched well by Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass which is a skilled blend of sacred and secular (operatic) styles of composition, his outstanding gift for composing enthralling melodies shines through all the movements. Royal Hall, Harrogate DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Hall
Ripon Road
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 2RD
England

Saturday 11th March 2023
7:00 PM

Programme

Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
Charles Gounod – Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile (St Cecilia Mass)

Performers

Brian Kay – Conductor
Georgie Malcolm – soprano
Richard Dowling – tenor
Alex Ashworth – Bass

Harrogate Choral Society
Manchester Camerata

Programme Note

The Gloria is a joyful hymn of praise and Puccini's Mass for Four Voices and Orchestra, as it was originally known, written as his graduation thesis when he was only 22 years of age, is an unmistakably youthful work, but shows a mature grasp of musical conventions and is evidence of his operatic promise. Puccini himself wrote: "The Almighty touched me with his little finger and said, ‘Write for the theatre - mind, only for the theatre!’ ”

This is matched well by Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass which is a skilled blend of sacred and secular (operatic) styles of composition, his outstanding gift for composing enthralling melodies shines through all the movements.

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