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Kodaly Missa Brevis
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Part of the Highgate Choral Society 2016-2017 Season
Add to my Calendar 06-05-2017 19:00 06-05-2017 21:00 36 Kodaly Missa Brevis Throughout 2017 the 50th anniversary of the death of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly is being marked. In 1945, while hiding with his wife and many others in the cellar of the Budapest Opera House during the Nazi occupation, he completed his Missa Brevis, which has originally been an organ mass. Its first performance was in the cloalroom of the Opera House, later receiving its official premiere at the 1948 Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. The Missa Brevis forms the second half of tonight's concert. By the time of this concert Highgate Choral Society will have been on its tenth tour abroad, to Naples, Sorrento and Pompeii, where they will have performed many of the shorter works in tonight's concert, by Finzi, Mascagni, Puccini, Rossini, Vaughan Williams and Verdi. St Michael's Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Michael's Church
South Grove
Highgate
London
N6 6BJ
England
Programme
Gerald Finzi – God is gone up, Op.27 no.2
Giuseppe Verdi – Otello: 'Ave Maria'
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown Region
Pietro Mascagni – Rejoice that the Lord has arisen
Gioachino Rossini – Ave Maria, motet
Gioachino Rossini – Tantum ergo
Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
~ Interval ~
Zoltán Kodály – Missa Brevis
Performers
Iúnó Connolly – soprano
Edward Batting – organ
Ronald Corp – Conductor
Highgate Choral Society
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Programme Note
Throughout 2017 the 50th anniversary of the death of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly is being marked. In 1945, while hiding with his wife and many others in the cellar of the Budapest Opera House during the Nazi occupation, he completed his Missa Brevis, which has originally been an organ mass. Its first performance was in the cloalroom of the Opera House, later receiving its official premiere at the 1948 Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. The Missa Brevis forms the second half of tonight's concert.
By the time of this concert Highgate Choral Society will have been on its tenth tour abroad, to Naples, Sorrento and Pompeii, where they will have performed many of the shorter works in tonight's concert, by Finzi, Mascagni, Puccini, Rossini, Vaughan Williams and Verdi.
