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Details
St Mary’s Parish Church
30 Main Street
Burley in Wharfedale
West Yorkshire
LS29 7DT
England
Programme
Robert Webb – Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day
Edward Elgar – There is Sweet Music, Op.53 no.1
Edward Elgar – Deep in my Soul, Op.53 no.2
Edward Elgar – O Wild West Wind, Op.53 no.3
Edward Elgar – Owls (an epitaph), Op.53 no.4
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27
Henry Purcell – Hail, Bright Cecilia, Z.328
Performers
Robert Webb – choral director
Pinsuti Chamber Choir
Programme Note
Pinsuti's concert is dedicated to St Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
In an exciting and varied programme we span centuries of celebration from Purcell to Britten, along with a piece specially written for this concert by Musical Director, Robert Webb, and four part songs by Elgar.
Purcell's ode, "Hail! Bright Cecilia", celebrates the organ and the instruments of the orchestra through exciting vocal solos, trios, quartets and magnificent choruses, with instrumental accompaniment. Britten's masterful "Hymn to St Cecilia" is equally exciting and utterly different from the Purcell, conveying the various moods found in the three poems by W.H.Auden. Robert Webb's intriguing composition, on a text by Alexander Pope, receives its first performance, 110 years after Elgar composed his widely contrasting four part songs, includiing the dramatic "O wild West Wind".
It will be a varied evening and should be one of our best concerts yet! Come and join us in the fine acoustic of St Mary's.
