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Hampstead Chamber Choir: Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms
A programme of joyous, expressive, and spiritual music from the 19th and 20th centuries featuring Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Kodály’s Missa Brevis and Janáček’s Otčenáš. The Chichester Psalms, written in 1965 and sung in Hebrew, is a jazzy, thrilling, and beautifully melodic arrangement for chorus, organ, harp and percussion with a haunting solo for boy soprano. The Janáček, Otčenáš of 1906 is a setting in Czech of the Lord’s Prayer in six short sections. With the accompaniment of organ and harp,…
Hampstead Chamber Choir: Parisian Masters
* Olivier Messiaen’s O Sacrum Convivium * Louis Vierne’s Messe Solonelle * Quatre motets pour le temps de penitence by Francis Poulenc, and * Charles-Marie Widor’s Messe a deux choeurs et deux orgues Charles-Marie Widor is best known for the Toccatta, the finale from his Fifth Symphony for Organ. The Mass for Two Choirs and Two Organs was originally written in 1878 for a choir of Baritones – the Chorus of the seminary next door to St Sulpice in Paris,…