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Worcester Festival Choral Society: Spring Spectacular
Dvorak - Te Deum / Borodin - Polovtsian Dances / Brahms - Alto Rhapsody / Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem
Part of the Worcester Festival Choral Society 2015-16 Season
Add to my Calendar 12-03-2016 19:30 12-03-2016 21:30 36 Worcester Festival Choral Society: Spring Spectacular In this varied and uplifting concert, the Chorus performs one of Czech composer Antonin Dvořák’s finest choral works, Te Deum, as well as the exciting, exotic Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor by Russian composer Alexander Borodin - his best-known composition. The meltingly romantic Alto Rhapsody by German composer Johannes Brahms was written in 1869 as a wedding gift for Robert Schumann’s daughter, Julie. Rounding off the evening, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s stunning, 1936 cantata Dona Nobis Pacem – in English, ‘Grant us Peace’ – offers a moving plea for peace amidst fears of a new war. Worcester Cathedral, Worcester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Worcester Cathedral
8 College Yard
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2LA
England
Programme
Antonin Dvorak – Te Deum, Op.103
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem (A Cry for Peace)
Johannes Brahms – Alto Rhapsody, Op.53
Aleksandr Borodin – Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Performers
Deborah Miles-Johnson – mezzo-soprano
Katherine Crompton – soprano
Timothy Dickinson – Bass
Meridian Sinfonia
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Programme Note
In this varied and uplifting concert, the Chorus performs one of Czech composer Antonin Dvořák’s finest choral works, Te Deum, as well as the exciting, exotic Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor by Russian composer Alexander Borodin - his best-known composition. The meltingly romantic Alto Rhapsody by German composer Johannes Brahms was written in 1869 as a wedding gift for Robert Schumann’s daughter, Julie. Rounding off the evening, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s stunning, 1936 cantata Dona Nobis Pacem – in English, ‘Grant us Peace’ – offers a moving plea for peace amidst fears of a new war.