Music for a Summer's Evening at St Mary the Virgin and All Saints Church, Potters Bar on Saturday 8th July 2023

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Music for a Summer's Evening

Add to my Calendar 08-07-2023 19:30 08-07-2023 21:30 36 Music for a Summer's Evening Mixing sunshine and pathos, religious and secular themes, our summer programme spans the centuries from Henry Purcell’s powerfully emotional Hear my Prayer (1682) and JS Bach’s joyous Lobet den Herrn, to the 21st century with an exciting contemporary composition by Libby Croad, To the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei of 1938, adds Latin liturgical text to his own Adagio for Strings. James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados combines sacred and secular themes using poems by Ariel Dorfman dealing with motherhood and loss in South America. We conclude with Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G Minor, a classical theme presented in the English style. St Mary the Virgin and All Saints Church, Potters Bar DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary the Virgin and All Saints Church
The Walk
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 1QQ
England

Saturday 8th July 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Mass in G minor
Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (motet), BWV 230
James MacMillan – Cantos Sagrados
Thomas Tallis – If ye love me
Henry Purcell – Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Z.15
Libby Croad – To the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei

Performers

Rufus Frowde – piano / organ
David Temple – Conductor

Hertfordshire Chorus

Programme Note

Mixing sunshine and pathos, religious and secular themes, our summer programme spans the centuries from Henry Purcell’s powerfully emotional Hear my Prayer (1682) and JS Bach’s joyous Lobet den Herrn, to the 21st century with an exciting contemporary composition by Libby Croad, To the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei of 1938, adds Latin liturgical text to his own Adagio for Strings.

James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados combines sacred and secular themes using poems by Ariel Dorfman dealing with motherhood and loss in South America.

We conclude with Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G Minor, a classical theme presented in the English style.

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