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Bournemouth Bach Choir perform Jenkins The Armed Man
A concert on Remembrance weekend, Bournemouth Bach Choir, Orchestra and soloists perform Jenkins' The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace alongside Haydn's Nelson Mass
Add to my Calendar 08-11-2025 19:30 08-11-2025 21:30 36 Bournemouth Bach Choir perform Jenkins The Armed Man A wonderfully evocative concert to be given on the Remembrance weekend, Bournemouth Bach Choir and Orchestra, with a wonderful line-up of soloists, perform Jenkins' The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace alongside Haydn's Nelson Mass.Haydn wrote his magnificent Nelson Mass with the sound of guns never far away in Europe at the very end of the 18th century. Jenkins’ popular and deeply moving The Armed Man, written to commemorate the millennium, is as an anti-war piece based on the traditional Mass alongside other religious and secular texts from a variety of cultures. It is dedicated to the victims of the war in Kosovo.Come and hear these fabulous works in the beautiful setting of Wimborne Minster. Wimborne Minster, Wimborne DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Wimborne Minster
High Street
Wimborne
Dorset
BH21 1HT
England
Programme
Joseph Haydn – Mass no.11 in D minor 'Nelson', Hob.XXII:11
Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man (A Mass for Peace)
Performers
Tim Hooper – Conductor
Amy Carson – soprano
Charlotte King – mezzo-soprano
Michael Aitkenhead – tenor
Jonathan Prentice – baritone
Bournemouth Bach Choir
Bournemouth Bach Choir Orchestra
Programme Note
A wonderfully evocative concert to be given on the Remembrance weekend, Bournemouth Bach Choir and Orchestra, with a wonderful line-up of soloists, perform Jenkins' The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace alongside Haydn's Nelson Mass.
Haydn wrote his magnificent Nelson Mass with the sound of guns never far away in Europe at the very end of the 18th century. Jenkins’ popular and deeply moving The Armed Man, written to commemorate the millennium, is as an anti-war piece based on the traditional Mass alongside other religious and secular texts from a variety of cultures. It is dedicated to the victims of the war in Kosovo.
Come and hear these fabulous works in the beautiful setting of Wimborne Minster.
