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St George's Church
28 Buxton Road
Stockport
Cheshire
SK2 6NU
England
Programme
Charles-Marie Widor – Mass, Op.36
Lili Boulanger – Psaume XXIV
Lili Boulanger – Hymne au Soleil
Camille Saint-Saens – Quam dilecta, Op.148
Louis Vierne – Messe Solennelle, Op.16
Charles-Marie Widor – Organ Symphony no.5: Toccata
Performers
Neil Taylor – Conductor
Joyce Tindsley – mezzo-soprano
Graham Eccles – organ
Peter Durrant – Piano
St George's Singers, Poynton
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Programme Note
A concert for choral and organ music lovers alike!
The 19th century saw a great revival in French organ music, at the forefront of which were Charles-Marie Widor and his pupil Louis Vierne. In addition to their grandiose symphonies and virtuosic organ solos, they also composed masses and sacred motets for choir and organ illustrating the limitless range of sounds the organ is capable of creating, from the loud and brash to the mysterious and ethereal.
This concert brings together two great organ masses – Widor’s majestic Mass for double choir, and Vierne’s Messe Solennelle – alongside well-known solo organ works and sacred motets from another great French organist, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Lili Boulanger, a pupil of Vierne who died tragically young at the age of 24.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45pm by Neil Taylor and Rosemary Broadbent, who will explain more about the background to the works to be performed. Entrance is included in the ticket price and there is no need to book for the talk, which will take place in the side chapel in the Church.
