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There is Sweet Music
Part of the Brandenburg Festival Chorus Autumn Series 2019 Season
Add to my Calendar 05-10-2019 19:30 05-10-2019 21:30 36 There is Sweet Music Two semi-professional London consorts join forces for an evening of choral favourites. Featuring music by Stanford, Nystedt and Elgar. The music of tonight's concert spans nearly one hundred years, from Elgar's There is Sweet Music to Knut Nystedt's arrangement of Bach's funeral song Komm, süßer Tod (Come, sweet death). The concert begins with one of Stanford's lesser known works, God and the Universe, followed by Poulenc's Missa Brevis Messe en sol majeur (Mass in G major), and ending with Howells' famous and challenging Take Him Earth for Cherishing. St James's Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St James's Church
Sussex Gardens
Paddington
London
W2 3UD
England
Programme
Francis Poulenc – Mass in G major, FP 89
Edward Elgar – There is Sweet Music, Op.53 no.1
Charles Villiers Stanford – God and the Universe, Op.97 no.2
Performers
Gabriel Chernick – Conductor
Jonathan Schranz – Conductor
Fisher Consort
I Dodici
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Programme Note
Two semi-professional London consorts join forces for an evening of choral favourites. Featuring music by Stanford, Nystedt and Elgar. The music of tonight's concert spans nearly one hundred years, from Elgar's There is Sweet Music to Knut Nystedt's arrangement of Bach's funeral song Komm, süßer Tod (Come, sweet death). The concert begins with one of Stanford's lesser known works, God and the Universe, followed by Poulenc's Missa Brevis Messe en sol majeur (Mass in G major), and ending with Howells' famous and challenging Take Him Earth for Cherishing.
