Remembrance
We span a century of choral music, from the Requiem Mass written in 1923 by the Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti in memory of his wife to Memorial for the Fallen and Lost by John Casken – a work written in 2014 in memory of the men of several villages in Upper Coquetdale in Northumberland who did not return from the Great War and have no known grave.
Our programme also features two world premières: a setting of John Keats’ To Autumn by our Composer-in-Association Zoe Dixon, and the motet Ave Maris Stella by our own Jonathan Lane, who won the prize for the best composition for a mixed choir in the 2023 Orfeó Català Competition in Spain. The official première of his piece will be given in Barcelona next year but we are honoured to have permission to give its actual first public performance.
Other works we shall perform include the well-loved motet Beati Quorum Via by Stanford, and a setting of the Libera Me by the Hungarian composer Lajos Bárdos.
Do join us for ‘Remembrance’ at St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London SW1V 2AD, on Thursday 16th November 2023 at 7pm, with a free Pre-Concert Talk at 6.30pm
Tickets: in advance for £20 (£10 U30, unwaged) from www.ticketsource.co.uk (plus booking fee)
or £25/£10 on the door.