Valentine Singers - Beethoven Mass in C at St Andrews Church, London on Saturday 21st March 2020

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Valentine Singers - Beethoven Mass in C

Add to my Calendar 21-03-2020 19:30 21-03-2020 21:30 36 Valentine Singers - Beethoven Mass in C The concert opens with Haydn's sparkling Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese; composed at her request in 1797, it is one of a remarkable series of choral works, including the great oratorios The Creation and The Seasons and six wonderful mass settings, from an extraordinarily fruitful decade near the end of Haydn's long life. It was Haydn's failing health that prompted his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy II, to commission a mass setting from Beethoven in 1807 for the celebration of his wife's name day.  Already immersed in a huge workload, Beethoven nevertheless undertook the commission with fervour, producing a mass setting more personal and colourfully expressive than anything the Prince might have anticipated.  In fact it was so different – and so under-rehearsed – that the Prince deemed it "unbearable and utterly detestable"!  Fortunately, Beethoven eventually persuaded his publishers otherwise.  A Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is a setting of two poems by Goethe, which also inspired Mendelssohn's overture of the same name. The calm sea was a disaster for sailors waiting to set off under sail; Beethoven's music evokes the stillness, the anticipation and finally a sense of transformation as the winds of change begin to blow.Our four soloists will join us in the mass and will also be performing the poignant Elegischer Gesang and the first quartet from Fidelio, Mir ist so wunderbar, a musical canon exploring the different standpoint of each character, touched by hope, love, duty and disguise! St Andrews Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Andrews Church
The Drive
Ilford
London
IG1 3PE
England

Saturday 21st March 2020
7:30 PM

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C major, Op.86
Joseph Haydn – Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese
Ludwig van Beethoven – Elegischer Gesang, Op.118
Ludwig van Beethoven – Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op.112

Performers

Christine Gwynn – Conductor
Kristy Swift – soprano
Madeline Sexton – mezzo-soprano
Bene't Coldstream – tenor
Alistair Kirk – Bass

Valentine Singers
Jericho Ensemble

Programme Note

The concert opens with Haydn's sparkling Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese; composed at her request in 1797, it is one of a remarkable series of choral works, including the great oratorios The Creation and The Seasons and six wonderful mass settings, from an extraordinarily fruitful decade near the end of Haydn's long life.
It was Haydn's failing health that prompted his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy II, to commission a mass setting from Beethoven in 1807 for the celebration of his wife's name day. Already immersed in a huge workload, Beethoven nevertheless undertook the commission with fervour, producing a mass setting more personal and colourfully expressive than anything the Prince might have anticipated. In fact it was so different – and so under-rehearsed – that the Prince deemed it "unbearable and utterly detestable"! Fortunately, Beethoven eventually persuaded his publishers otherwise.

A Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is a setting of two poems by Goethe, which also inspired Mendelssohn's overture of the same name. The calm sea was a disaster for sailors waiting to set off under sail; Beethoven's music evokes the stillness, the anticipation and finally a sense of transformation as the winds of change begin to blow.
Our four soloists will join us in the mass and will also be performing the poignant Elegischer Gesang and the first quartet from Fidelio, Mir ist so wunderbar, a musical canon exploring the different standpoint of each character, touched by hope, love, duty and disguise!

Beethoven 250 image with programme details

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