Handel, Mendelssohn and Mozart Mass in C Min at Tonbridge School Chapel, Tonbridge on Saturday 25th March 2023

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Handel, Mendelssohn and Mozart Mass in C Min

Add to my Calendar 25-03-2023 19:30 25-03-2023 21:30 36 Handel, Mendelssohn and Mozart Mass in C Min Who can fail to thrill to a choir singing the great coronation anthems written by Handel for King George II in 1727? Zadok starts loud and high, staying pretty much that way all the way through. The words come from the biblical account of the anointing of King Solomon and have been used at every English – then British - coronation since King Edgar was crowned in 973. Listen out for them as you watch the Coronation of King Charles III. If Zadok the Priest has a firm foundation in historical fact, The Magic Flute definitely comes from fantasy. There have been many theories about hidden meanings, religious and political intrigue underpinning this work. Like Zadok the Priest, it also opens with strident chords, followed by hints of themes that portray some of the opera’s main characters. Listen carefully and you can pick out the priest Sarastro, as well as Prince Tamino and his flute amongst all the notes. As the deer pants for streams of water is a translation of the opening of Psalm 42. Mendelssohn thought it his best sacred piece, and it sets quite a different pace and tone from our preceding pieces, worried and unsettling. We close our concert with Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass, a monumental work that was unfinished at his death, although since then various musicians have filled in the gaps. Performances require two sopranos, a tenor and a bass, together with double chorus and a large orchestra. It’s just as well that TPS’s numbers have returned to their pre-pandemic level, as they will all be needed for this solemn and wonderful work.   Tonbridge School Chapel, Tonbridge DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Tonbridge School Chapel
High Street
Tonbridge
Kent
TN9 1JP
England

Saturday 25th March 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute: Overture
Felix Mendelssohn – Psalm 42, Op.42
~ Interval ~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mass in C minor, K.427/417a

Performers

Naomi Butcher – Conductor
Anna Cavaliero – soprano
Rebecca Milford – soprano
Richard Robbins – tenor
Jonathan Eyers – Bass

Tonbridge Philharmonic Society

Programme Note

Who can fail to thrill to a choir singing the great coronation anthems written by Handel for King George II in 1727? Zadok starts loud and high, staying pretty much that way all the way through. The words come from the biblical account of the anointing of King Solomon and have been used at every English – then British - coronation since King Edgar was crowned in 973. Listen out for them as you watch the Coronation of King Charles III.

If Zadok the Priest has a firm foundation in historical fact, The Magic Flute definitely comes from fantasy. There have been many theories about hidden meanings, religious and political intrigue underpinning this work. Like Zadok the Priest, it also opens with strident chords, followed by hints of themes that portray some of the opera’s main characters. Listen carefully and you can pick out the priest Sarastro, as well as Prince Tamino and his flute amongst all the notes.

As the deer pants for streams of water is a translation of the opening of Psalm 42. Mendelssohn thought it his best sacred piece, and it sets quite a different pace and tone from our preceding pieces, worried and unsettling.

We close our concert with Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass, a monumental work that was unfinished at his death, although since then various musicians have filled in the gaps. Performances require two sopranos, a tenor and a bass, together with double chorus and a large orchestra. It’s just as well that TPS’s numbers have returned to their pre-pandemic level, as they will all be needed for this solemn and wonderful work.

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