Rachmaninov's Vespers by candlelight at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on Thursday 1st November 2018

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Rachmaninov's Vespers by candlelight

Part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London 2018 Autumn Series

Add to my Calendar 01-11-2018 21:30 01-11-2018 23:30 36 Rachmaninov's Vespers by candlelight The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London welcomes back the Cambridge-based Fisher Consort for this performance of Rachmaninov’s Vespers, the second of this evening’s two concerts in the Autumn Series. Composed in 1915, Rachmaninov's 'All Night Vigil', as the Vespers are more correctly known, is something of a marathon of choral singing: fifteen movements, all unaccompanied, and with up to eleven different voice parts, fit together to create an hour-long work of almost symphonic proportions. It takes us into a different world – the world of the Russian Orthodox Church, with its legendary low bass singers, heavy incense-soaked atmosphere and melodies based on traditional Russian Orthodox chant, which Rachmaninov would have absorbed whilst attending services as a child. Join this fabulous choir and its conductor Jonathan Schranz in the lovely surroundings of a candlelit St Martin-in-the-Fields for this memorable and atmospheric performance. For more information please click here. St Martin-in-the-Fields, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
Westminster
London
WC2N 4JJ
England

Thursday 1st November 2018
9:30 PM

Programme

Sergei Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Op.37

Performers

Jonathan Schranz – Conductor

Fisher Consort

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Programme Note

The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London welcomes back the Cambridge-based Fisher Consort for this performance of Rachmaninov’s Vespers, the second of this evening’s two concerts in the Autumn Series. Composed in 1915, Rachmaninov's 'All Night Vigil', as the Vespers are more correctly known, is something of a marathon of choral singing: fifteen movements, all unaccompanied, and with up to eleven different voice parts, fit together to create an hour-long work of almost symphonic proportions. It takes us into a different world – the world of the Russian Orthodox Church, with its legendary low bass singers, heavy incense-soaked atmosphere and melodies based on traditional Russian Orthodox chant, which Rachmaninov would have absorbed whilst attending services as a child. Join this fabulous choir and its conductor Jonathan Schranz in the lovely surroundings of a candlelit St Martin-in-the-Fields for this memorable and atmospheric performance.

For more information please click here.

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