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Somerset Chamber Choir Concert – Serenade to Music
July 29, 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Serenade to Music – A wide ranging and multi-faceted programme celebrates the power of music in a brilliant sequence of choral and solo vocal works from the C18th and C20th centuries.Some great instrumental works are included too for this Graham Caldbeck’s final concert as the choir’s Musical Director after an extraordinarily successful 27 years. He has chosen works by some of the choir’s favourite composers and others of personal significance to him.
Featuring
- Somerset Chamber Choir – https://www.somersetchamberchoir.org/
- Southern Sinfonia – https://www.southernsinfonia.co.uk/
- Graham Caldbeck – Conductor
- Susanna Hurrell – Soprano – https://www.susannahurrell.com/
- Katie Bray – Mezzo-soprano – https://www.katieemilybray.com/
- Andrew Tortise – Tenor – https://www.andrewtortise.com
- George Humphreys – Bass – https://www.george-humphreys.co.uk/
- Christopher Stokes – Organ
Programme Details.
- Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft BWV50 – Johann Sebastian Bach
- The King shall rejoice – George Frideric Handel
- Exsultate, jubilate K165 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Regina Coeli K276 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Te Deum – Franz Joseph Haydn
- Interval
- Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten – Arvo Pärt
- Bring us, O Lord God – William Harris
- Hymn (Suite for Harp 83 – Benjamin Britten
- Valiant-for-Truth – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury – Benjamin Britten
- The Old Hundredth – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Changed – James MacMillan
- Serenade to Music – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Tickets: £25; £22; £18; £15; £12; £10; £7
From Taunton Visitor Centre, Market House, Fore Street, Taunton, TA1 1JD Tel: 01823-340470 – Open Monday to Saturday – 09.30 to 16.30
& From Wells Cathedral Box Office, Wells Cathedral Tel: 01749-672773 or 01749-671663 or email shop@wellscathedral.uk.net Box Office open Monday to Saturday – 10.30 to 16.30 & Sunday 11.30 to 16.30
& on line at Somerset Chamber Choir web site – https://www.somersetchamberchoir.org/tickets.htm