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Victoria Hall
Main Street
Grange-over-Sands
Cumbria
LA11 6DP
England
Programme
Johann Christian Bach – Mit Weinen hebt sich’s an
Johann Michael Bach – Das Blut Jesu Christi (motet)
Johann Michael Bach – Halt, was du hast (motet)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Jesu, meine Freude (motet), BWV 227
Johann Sebastian Bach – Komm, Jesu, komm (motet), BWV 229
Henryk Gorecki – Totus Tuus, Op.60
Arvo Pärt – Bogoroditse Devo
Arvo Pärt – The Deer’s Cry
Arvo Pärt – Nunc Dimittis
Arvo Pärt – Magnificat
Performers
Gawain Glenton – Conductor
Christopher Stokes – chamber organ
Levens Choir
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Programme Note
At the heart of this concert are pieces by two composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and Arvo Pärt. Although they were born 250 years apart into different traditions, both were driven by their profound faith to change the way in which we understand music - in Bach’s case developing baroque counterpoint within the Lutheran tradition and Pärt’s new form of orthodox music with close, often clashing, harmonies inspired by Gregorian chant, under the title of ‘tintinnabulation’ (the Latin for the sound of small bells). Led by their conductor, Gawain Glenton, and accompanied by Manchester Cathedral’s accomplished organist Christopher Stokes, Levens Choir will perform some classic choral works of these two composers, along with pieces by two members of Bach’s extended musical family and Pärt’s Polish contemporary, Henryk Górecki.
