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Yorkshire Bach Choir
Handel 'Dixit Dominus' Vivaldi 'Gloria' & Haydn 'Nelson Mass'
Part of the York Early Music Christmas Festival 2017
Add to my Calendar 09-12-2017 19:30 09-12-2017 21:30 36 Yorkshire Bach Choir This colourful programme features some of the 18th century’s most popular and invigorating music for chorus and instruments. Handel’s vivid setting of Dixit Dominus, composed during his stay in Italy, is one of his most virtuosic and impressive choral compositions. Vivaldi’s colourful Gloria pulsates with festive Venetian energy and is his best known, most popular choral work. Haydn’s late choral works display his consummate skill and imagination as a composer. The Nelson Mass is arguably his most electrifying and atmospheric mass settings, taking us on a musical journey where dark anxiety is dissolved in joyful triumph. “YBC is a top notch choir, tempos bright & pacy!” BBC Radio 3 Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England
Programme
George Frideric Handel – Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Joseph Haydn – Mass no.11 in D minor 'Nelson', Hob.XXII:11
Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria in D major, RV 589
Performers
Peter Seymour – Conductor
Bethany Seymour – soprano
Wendy Goodson – soprano
Nancy Cole – Alto
Jonathan Hanley – Tenor
Frederick Long – Bass
Yorkshire Bach Choir
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
This colourful programme features some of the 18th century’s most popular and invigorating music for chorus and instruments. Handel’s vivid setting of Dixit Dominus, composed during his stay in Italy, is one of his most virtuosic and impressive choral compositions. Vivaldi’s colourful Gloria pulsates with festive Venetian energy and is his best known, most popular choral work. Haydn’s late choral works display his consummate skill and imagination as a composer. The Nelson Mass is arguably his most electrifying and atmospheric mass settings, taking us on a musical journey where dark anxiety is dissolved in joyful triumph.
“YBC is a top notch choir, tempos bright & pacy!” BBC Radio 3
