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Wesley Church Centre
Saint John Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 1DA
England
Tickets
Prices: £18, Students £5
Book Tickets
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (cantata), BWV 140
Felix Mendelssohn – Sechs Sprüche, Op.79
Dale Trumbore – In the Middle
Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel
Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the Year
Performers
Elspeth Piggott – soprano
Graham McClusker – bass
Andra Vornicu – violin
Graham Eccles – piano / organ
Joseph Judge – Music Director
Programme Note
In this year's concert Chester Festival Chorus, along with our new Musical Director Joseph Judge, focus on the voices of the choir, accompanied by piano, two soloists and a violin. The theme is time. Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year uses poems from Emily Dickinson, William Blake and Alfred Tennyson to explore themes of time passing through the seasons and the years. It is for two choirs, so we are divided in two for this one! Dale Trumbore’s Stuck in the Middle explores similar themes of life passing as we busy ourselves with our daily activities. Mendelssohn’s beautiful Romantic-era Sechs Sprüche (also in 2 choirs) is a collection of 6 short anthems for the key days in the church year. JS Bach’s Wachet Auf (Awake! the voice calls to us) is perhaps his best known cantata. You will definitely recognise some of it! Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel I’m Spiegel has become a popular classic, and will be heard here in the version for solo piano and violin.
