Joyfully Choral - at Chobham Festival: Handel, Bach, Purcell at St Lawrence Church, Chobham on Saturday 29th September 2018

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Joyfully Choral - at Chobham Festival

Handel, Bach, Purcell

Part of the Chobham Festival 2018

Add to my Calendar 29-09-2018 19:45 29-09-2018 21:45 36 Joyfully Choral - at Chobham Festival For the Festival Choir, we have brought together an ensemble of top professionals, conducted by Surrey-based tenor Roy Rashbrook. The centrepiece of this concert is Handel’s thrilling ‘Dixit Dominus’, one of his finest works – and one of his earliest – scored for five solo singers, chorus and instruments and written during his youthful years while he was living in Italy. Dating from 1707, it is famous for establishing the reputation of the dazzlingly gifted 22-year-old Mr Handel. The work is a setting of Psalm 110, which begins with the words Dixit Dominus, “The Lord Said”. Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring is the most common English title of a piece of music derived from the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (“Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life”). Contrary to the common assumption, the violinist and composer Johann Schop, not Bach, composed the  underlying chorale melody.  Bach harmonised and orchestrated it. Sleepers Awake is possibly Bach’s most famous cantata. The opening words contain a tune written by a Lutheran pastor, Philipp Nicolai. Sheep May Safely Graze was originally written for a birthday celebration of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, near the court of Weimar where Bach was based. Henry Purcell, the greatest English baroque composer- and many would claim the greatest ever native composer – had a short but brilliant life in music. He died at the age of only 36. His anthem, My Life is Inditing, was written for the coronation of James II in 1685. St Lawrence Church, Chobham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Lawrence Church
High Street
Chobham
Surrey
GU24 8AA
England

Saturday 29th September 2018
7:45 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Henry Purcell – My Heart is Inditing, Z.30
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata 'Sleepers Wake', BWV 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata, BWV 208: 'Sheep may safely graze'

Performers

Roy Rashbrook – Conductor
Dale Chambers – Leader / Director

Chobham Festival Choir

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Programme Note

For the Festival Choir, we have brought together an ensemble of top professionals, conducted by Surrey-based tenor Roy Rashbrook.

The centrepiece of this concert is Handel’s thrilling ‘Dixit Dominus’, one of his finest works – and one of his earliest – scored for five solo singers, chorus and instruments and written during his youthful years while he was living in Italy. Dating from 1707, it is famous for establishing the reputation of the dazzlingly gifted 22-year-old Mr Handel.

The work is a setting of Psalm 110, which begins with the words Dixit Dominus, “The Lord Said”.

Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring is the most common English title of a piece of music derived from the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (“Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life”). Contrary to the common assumption, the violinist and composer Johann Schop, not Bach, composed the underlying chorale melody. Bach harmonised and orchestrated it.

Sleepers Awake is possibly Bach’s most famous cantata. The opening words contain a tune written by a Lutheran pastor, Philipp Nicolai.

Sheep May Safely Graze was originally written for a birthday celebration of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, near the court of Weimar where Bach was based.

Henry Purcell, the greatest English baroque composer- and many would claim the greatest ever native composer – had a short but brilliant life in music. He died at the age of only 36. His anthem, My Life is Inditing, was written for the coronation of James II in 1685.

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