Brahms Requiem - Lea Singers: Brahms, Parry and Porter at St Nicholas Church, Harpenden on Saturday 27th November 2021

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Brahms Requiem - Lea Singers

Brahms, Parry and Porter

Add to my Calendar 27-11-2021 19:30 27-11-2021 21:30 36 Brahms Requiem - Lea Singers Harpenden chamber choir The Lea Singers mark their return to live concert-giving with Parry’s joyful anthem I was Glad, a short Nocturne written during lockdown by singer-composer Kim Porter and the monumental Brahms Requiem. The version you hear this evening was arranged by Brahms himself for four hands at one piano and used for the British premiere of the work in London on 10 July 1871. Choral music at its most moving. St Nicholas Church, Harpenden DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Nicholas Church
Church Green
Harpenden
Herts
AL5 2TP
England

Saturday 27th November 2021
7:30 PM

Programme

Johannes Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45
Kim Porter – Nocturne
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad

Performers

Victoria Longdon – Conductor
Charles Andrews – piano
Rebecca Taylor – piano
Charlotte Bowden – soprano
Michael Roche – baritone

Lea Singers

Programme Note

Harpenden chamber choir The Lea Singers mark their return to live concert-giving with Parry’s joyful anthem I was Glad, a short Nocturne written during lockdown by singer-composer Kim Porter and the monumental Brahms Requiem.

The version you hear this evening was arranged by Brahms himself for four hands at one piano and used for the British premiere of the work in London on 10 July 1871. Choral music at its most moving.

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