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Details

St Mary's Catholic Cathedral
Broughton Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3JR
Scotland


Programme

Ralph Vaughan WilliamsMass in G minor
Kenneth LeightonMass for Double Choir, Op.44

Performers

Simon Leach – organ
Iain McLarty – Conductor

Scottish Chamber Choir

Programme Note

Music is a means of“stretching out to the ultimate realities through the medium of beauty.”
Vaughan Williams


The Scottish Chamber Choir, directed by Iain McLarty, opens its 2019/2020 Season with a concert of luminous music from two great British composers: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Kenneth Leighton.
Written for double choir, Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor (1921) and Leighton’s Mass Op 44 (1964) combine the lyricism of early English music with 20th century chromaticism and rhythmic intensity.  The result is a timeless, reflective choral idiom, creating a sense of human fragility and of searching for consolation in a troubled world.
Organ preludes on hymn tunes by the two composers, played by Simon Leach, organist of St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, are interspersed between the movements of the choral works.

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