Music for Passiontide at St Martin of Tours Church, Epsom on Saturday 25th March 2023

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Music for Passiontide

Part of the Epsom Chamber Choir 2022 - 2023 Season

Add to my Calendar 25-03-2023 19:30 25-03-2023 21:30 36 Music for Passiontide PASSIONTIDE MUSIC WORTH A JOURNEY  JS Bach walked 250 miles to listen to Buxtehude’s music but luckily, on 25th March, Epsom Chamber Choir’s audience only has to travel to St Martin’s Church, Epsom, to hear them sing his cantata Membra Jesu Nostri, the central work in their Music for Passiontide concert.   The choir will be accompanied by a small chamber ensemble to perform several gems of liturgical music written for Passiontide. They will be joined by invited soloists for Membra Jesu Nostri, which is a devotional cycle of seven cantatas, including one, Ad Cor – The Heart and the emotional core of the piece - which will be accompanied by period instruments. The programme will also include Lotti’s Crucifixus and music by Lassus, Weelkes and contemporary composers Paul Mealor and Sarah MacDonald.   Dieterich Buxtehude was a Danish composer and organist born in 1637. He was a great influence on the young JS Bach who, at the age of twenty, is said to have walked to Buxtehude’s home town – a distance equal to walking from Epsom to Cornwall - to hear Buxtehude play and then spent three months studying his music before walking home again.    Epsom Chamber Choir is one of Surrey’s leading chamber choirs, performing regularly at St Martin’s Church, where the excellent acoustics make the most of the choir’s superb sound. This Music for Passiontide concert will include an interval with refreshments available. St Martin of Tours Church, Epsom DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Martin of Tours Church
Church Street
Epsom
Surrey
KT17 4PX
England

Saturday 25th March 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Dietrich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75
Sarah Macdonald – Crux Fidelis
Sulpitia Cesis – Stabat Mater
Orlando di Lasso – Tristis est anima mea
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus (trans. Elwood Williams)
Felice Anerio – Christus factus est pro nobis
Paul Mealor – Ubi Caritas
Thomas Weelkes – Hosanna to the Son of David

Performers

Jack Apperley – guest conductor

Epsom Chamber Choir
Epsom Early Music Players

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Programme Note

PASSIONTIDE MUSIC WORTH A JOURNEY

JS Bach walked 250 miles to listen to Buxtehude’s music but luckily, on 25th March, Epsom Chamber Choir’s audience only has to travel to St Martin’s Church, Epsom, to hear them sing his cantata Membra Jesu Nostri, the central work in their Music for Passiontide concert.

The choir will be accompanied by a small chamber ensemble to perform several gems of liturgical music written for Passiontide. They will be joined by invited soloists for Membra Jesu Nostri, which is a devotional cycle of seven cantatas, including one, Ad Cor – The Heart and the emotional core of the piece - which will be accompanied by period instruments. The programme will also include Lotti’s Crucifixus and music by Lassus, Weelkes and contemporary composers Paul Mealor and Sarah MacDonald.

Dieterich Buxtehude was a Danish composer and organist born in 1637. He was a great influence on the young JS Bach who, at the age of twenty, is said to have walked to Buxtehude’s home town – a distance equal to walking from Epsom to Cornwall - to hear Buxtehude play and then spent three months studying his music before walking home again.

Epsom Chamber Choir is one of Surrey’s leading chamber choirs, performing regularly at St Martin’s Church, where the excellent acoustics make the most of the choir’s superb sound. This Music for Passiontide concert will include an interval with refreshments available.

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