Music and Reformation at St Michael and All Angels Church, London on Saturday 25th November 2017

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Music and Reformation

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Details

St Michael and All Angels Church
Bath Road
Chiswick
London
W4 1TT
England

Saturday 25th November 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Richard Wagner – Parsifal: Prelude and Good Friday music
Johann Sebastian Bach – Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80: Chorale (arr. L Stokowski)
Cecilia McDowall – Floreat Oriana
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no.5 in D minor 'Reformation', Op.107

Performers

Marc Dooley – Conductor
Iwona Boesche – Leader

West London Sinfonia

Programme Note

Our programme follows a musical thread from Bach's chorale for Reformation Day in Leipzig, to Wagner's use of the Dresden Amen at Batreuth , by way of Mendelssohn's symphony written to commemorate a key event in Reformation history. "Floreat Oriana" commissioned by WLS for the Royal Diamond Jubilee in 2012, celebrates a milestone of the second Elizabethan Age.

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