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Details
Trinity Church Centre
15 Nether Street
North Finchley
London
N12 7NN
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – Song of Destiny, Op.54
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown region
Felix Mendelssohn – Mitten wir im Leben sind, Op.23 no.3
Felix Mendelssohn – Heilig, WoO 27
Antonin Dvorak – Symphony no.8 in G major, Op.88
Performers
Christopher Stark – Conductor
Finchley Symphony Orchestra
Finchley Chamber Choir
Programme Note
Finchley Symphony Orchestra and Finchley Chamber Choir come together again with conductor Christopher Stark for the final concert of their seasons. The programme explores humanity’s place in the world – its beauty, its uncertainty and its longing for something beyond.
Dvorak’s Symphony No.8 inhabits a world of bucolic optimism, Bohemian melodies dancing one after another leading to a rousing finale.
Brahms’ ‘Song of Destiny’, sometimes called the ‘Little Requiem’, is a profound meditation on the divide between divine serenity and human fragility.
Two short pieces by Mendelssohn for unaccompanied choir, a motet and a setting of part of the Mass, provide moments of stillness.
Vaughan Williams’ first major choral work is a glowing setting of Walt Whitman’s visionary invitation to step beyond the familiar.
