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St Dunstan's Church
High Street
Mayfield
East Sussex
TN20 6AB
England
Programme
Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Performers
Ross Fettes – Bass Baritone
Francis Melville – tenor
Edvard Pogossian – Cello
Jeremy Summerly – Conductor
Mayfield Festival Choir
Mayfield School Schola Cantorum
Ripieno Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
We are delighted to welcome back to Mayfield Cellist Edvard Pogossian who was the overall winner of the 2022 Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition.
Puccini's Messa di Gloria was a graduation exercise, although you'd never know it. Even in his early 20s Puccini was crafting tunes and creating drama as he later would as a mature composer of operas.
Elgar, in contrast, never wrote an opera: he didn't need to. He spent 20 years thinking about his Cello Concerto, which was his dramatic masterpiece.
The Mayfield Festival Choir gratefully acknowledges the financial support given by the Josephine Baker Trust for soloists Francis Melville and Ross Fettes in this concert.
