Elgar: The Black Knight and Parry:De Profundis at St Albans Cathedral, St Albans on Saturday 26th February 2022

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Elgar: The Black Knight and Parry:De Profundis

Add to my Calendar 26-02-2022 19:30 26-02-2022 21:30 36 Elgar: The Black Knight and Parry:De Profundis Hertfordshire Chorus presents two rarely performed works by two of our greatest romantic English composers. Elgar’s The Black Knight, and Parry’s De Profundis are accompanied by more familiar works by the two composers. Elgar described The Black Knight, Op. 25  as a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’ . Written in 1889–93  and first performed in Worcester in April 1893, it tells the story of the intrusion of a mysterious stranger into a medieval king’s court with disastrous and gruesome results. Elgar is a magnificent story-teller and The Black Knight is no exception. The action is described by the chorus in four dramatic scenes. Described by Vaughan Williams in a letter to Sir Adrian Boult in 1948 as Parry’s finest work, De Profundis was composed in 1891 and first performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford in September of the same year. Parry set Psalm 130 ‘Out of the depths have I cried unto three, O Lord’ for soprano and twelve part chorus. Rarely performed since then, we are able to bring this neglected masterpiece to a wider audience using a newly reconstructed full score prepared for us by the English Heritage Music Series. This concert is supported by The Elgar Society. Hertfordshire Chorus is one of the country’s foremost symphonic choirs. Conducted by David Temple MBE, it appears frequently with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and is often broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 2. A critically acclaimed CD Ode to a Nightingale (Will Todd) and Codebreaker (James McCarthy) was recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra for Signum Records. St Albans Cathedral, St Albans DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Albans Cathedral
Holywell Hill
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 1BY
England

Saturday 26th February 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Edward Elgar – The Black Knight, Op.25
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – De Profundis

Performers

Sarah Fox – soprano
Rufus Frowde – organ
David Temple – Conductor

London Orchestra da Camera

Programme Note

Hertfordshire Chorus presents two rarely performed works by two of our greatest romantic English composers. Elgar’s The Black Knight, and Parry’s De Profundis are accompanied by more familiar works by the two composers.

Elgar described The Black Knight, Op. 25 as a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’ . Written in 1889–93 and first performed in Worcester in April 1893, it tells the story of the intrusion of a mysterious stranger into a medieval king’s court with disastrous and gruesome results. Elgar is a magnificent story-teller and The Black Knight is no exception. The action is described by the chorus in four dramatic scenes.

Described by Vaughan Williams in a letter to Sir Adrian Boult in 1948 as Parry’s finest work, De Profundis was composed in 1891 and first performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford in September of the same year. Parry set Psalm 130 ‘Out of the depths have I cried unto three, O Lord’ for soprano and twelve part chorus. Rarely performed since then, we are able to bring this neglected masterpiece to a wider audience using a newly reconstructed full score prepared for us by the English Heritage Music Series.

This concert is supported by The Elgar Society.

Hertfordshire Chorus is one of the country’s foremost symphonic choirs. Conducted by David Temple MBE, it appears frequently with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and is often broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 2. A critically acclaimed CD Ode to a Nightingale (Will Todd) and Codebreaker (James McCarthy) was recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra for Signum Records.

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