Bath MozartFest - They are at rest at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bath on Sunday 11th November 2018

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Bath MozartFest - They are at rest

Add to my Calendar 11-11-2018 16:30 11-11-2018 18:30 36 Bath MozartFest - They are at rest Bath Camerata, the city’s award-winning chamber choir, performs a concert specially devised for Remembrance Day on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It contains a cappella music with an appropriately elegiac and reflective tone by composers from some of the countries – Britain, Hungary, Russia, France and Germany – caught up in the conflict. The music is complemented by poetry and prose appropriate to the occasion, read by the much-loved actor Juliet Stevenson. St Mary the Virgin Church, Bath DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary the Virgin Church
Darlington Street
Bathwick
Bath
Somerset
BA2 4EB
England

Sunday 11th November 2018
4:30 PM

Programme

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Never weather-beaten sail
Zoltán Kodály – Esti Dal (Evening Song)
Sergei Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (Vespers): Nunc dimittis
Francis Poulenc – Un soir de neige, FP 126
Herbert Howells – Requiem
Cecilia McDowall – Standing as I do before God
Johannes Brahms – Warum ist das Licht gegeben?, Op.74 no.1
Edward Elgar – They Are At Rest, anthem

Performers

Benjamin Goodson – Conductor
Juliet Stevenson – Actor

Bath Camerata

Programme Note

Bath Camerata, the city’s award-winning chamber choir, performs a concert specially devised for Remembrance Day on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It contains a cappella music with an appropriately elegiac and reflective tone by composers from some of the countries – Britain, Hungary, Russia, France and Germany – caught up in the conflict.

The music is complemented by poetry and prose appropriate to the occasion, read by the much-loved actor Juliet Stevenson.

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