Danesborough Chorus Summer Concert: Puccini Messa di Gloria at St Mary's Church, Woburn on Saturday 24th June 2023

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Danesborough Chorus Summer Concert

Puccini Messa di Gloria

Add to my Calendar 24-06-2023 19:30 24-06-2023 21:30 36 Danesborough Chorus Summer Concert As a tribute to the Coronation of King Charles III on 6 May, our Musical Director, Ian Smith, will conduct Danesborough Chorus in a performance of Purcell’s Coronation anthem My Heart is Inditing.  Henry Purcell’s My Heart is Inditing was composed for the Coronation of King James II in Westminster Abbey in 1685. Handel later used it as the model for his better known anthems written for the Coronation of George II in 1727 which have since become standard for later Coronations. Dies Natalis is a solo cantata by the 20th-century English composer Gerald Finzi. It features exquisite settings of four texts by Thomas Traherne, a 17th-century English metaphysical poet, priest and theologian, and was first performed at the Three Choirs Festival in 1946 conducted by Finzi himself. Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria is a Mass for orchestra and chorus, with tenor and bass soloists. Puccini wrote the Mass as his graduation exercise from the Instituto Musicale Pacini; he was intending to become a church musician. It had its first performance in 1880 but, after hearing Verdi’s Aida, his interests took him away from writing sacred music. The success of his operas meant that the Mass was forgotten and not performed again for more than 70 years, until it was rediscovered in 1951. Since then, it has rapidly secured an important place in the modern choral repertoire. St Mary's Church, Woburn DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary's Church
Park Street
Woburn
Bedfordshire
MK17 9PG
England

Saturday 24th June 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
Gerald Finzi – Dies Natalis, Op.8
Henry Purcell – My Heart is Inditing, Z.30

Performers

Benjamin Bevan – baritone
Mark Le Brocq – tenor
Ian Smith – Conductor

Danesborough Chorus
Alina Orchestra

Programme Note

As a tribute to the Coronation of King Charles III on 6 May, our Musical Director, Ian Smith, will conduct Danesborough Chorus in a performance of Purcell’s Coronation anthem My Heart is Inditing.

Henry Purcell’s My Heart is Inditing was composed for the Coronation of King James II in Westminster Abbey in 1685. Handel later used it as the model for his better known anthems written for the Coronation of George II in 1727 which have since become standard for later Coronations.

Dies Natalis is a solo cantata by the 20th-century English composer Gerald Finzi. It features exquisite settings of four texts by Thomas Traherne, a 17th-century English metaphysical poet, priest and theologian, and was first performed at the Three Choirs Festival in 1946 conducted by Finzi himself.

Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria is a Mass for orchestra and chorus, with tenor and bass soloists. Puccini wrote the Mass as his graduation exercise from the Instituto Musicale Pacini; he was intending to become a church musician. It had its first performance in 1880 but, after hearing Verdi’s Aida, his interests took him away from writing sacred music. The success of his operas meant that the Mass was forgotten and not performed again for more than 70 years, until it was rediscovered in 1951. Since then, it has rapidly secured an important place in the modern choral repertoire.

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