Mozart Requiem & Bach Magnificat at St John's Smith Square, London on Saturday 21st March 2020

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Mozart Requiem & Bach Magnificat

Add to my Calendar 21-03-2020 19:30 21-03-2020 21:30 36 Mozart Requiem & Bach Magnificat Following acclaimed performances of Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion, Mass in B minor and St Matthew Passion, and a highly successful Autumn tour to Leipzig, Anton Bruckner Choir and founder conductor Christopher Dawe return to St John’s Smith Square to complete their Bach odyssey. Fittingly the cycle concludes with the Magnificat in D, a microcosm of Bach’s choral music that packs into a scintillating half hour the full gamut of emotions, ranging from dazzling trumpet-led celebration to intensely felt spiritual intimacy. By way of contrast Mozart’s swansong, Requiem provides an opportunity to explore a range of darker colours within the overall spectrum of D major/minor, the sombreness of Mozart’s characteristic tragic key underlined with a rich scoring that draws on the imposing heft of trombones and basset horns. Anton Bruckner Choir is delighted to be joined in its 25th anniversary year by a team of outstanding young soloists and to collaborate once more with the London Mozart Players, ideal partners for the evening’s traversal of high Baroque and Classical styles. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Saturday 21st March 2020
7:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ave verum corpus, K.618
Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
~ Interval ~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D minor, K.626

Performers

Christopher Dawe – Conductor
Catriona Hewitson – soprano
Hollie-Anne Bangham – mezzo-soprano
James Hall – countertenor
Nick Pritchard – Tenor
Philip Tebb – Bass

Anton Bruckner Choir
London Mozart Players

Programme Note

Following acclaimed performances of Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion, Mass in B minor and St Matthew Passion, and a highly successful Autumn tour to Leipzig, Anton Bruckner Choir and founder conductor Christopher Dawe return to St John’s Smith Square to complete their Bach odyssey. Fittingly the cycle concludes with the Magnificat in D, a microcosm of Bach’s choral music that packs into a scintillating half hour the full gamut of emotions, ranging from dazzling trumpet-led celebration to intensely felt spiritual intimacy. By way of contrast Mozart’s swansong, Requiem provides an opportunity to explore a range of darker colours within the overall spectrum of D major/minor, the sombreness of Mozart’s characteristic tragic key underlined with a rich scoring that draws on the imposing heft of trombones and basset horns.

Anton Bruckner Choir is delighted to be joined in its 25th anniversary year by a team of outstanding young soloists and to collaborate once more with the London Mozart Players, ideal partners for the evening’s traversal of high Baroque and Classical styles.

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