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Welcome to the 43rd season of the St Albans Chamber Choir
The highlight of the season will be Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
presented in their full form in the glorious setting of St Albans Abbey and for
which the Choir will be accompanied by notable soloists and instrumentalists
from the early music movement. The March concert features another Vespers, a
recently researched sequence by Monteverdi's predecessor, Victoria, performed
in the appropriate and beautiful Chapel at All Saints Pastoral Centre.
In December there is an opportunity to hear music from the Choir's new
recording 'Christmas across the Centuries', a sequence of contrasting Medieval
and modern settings of Christmas texts. In January the Choir and The Zemel
Choir give the London premiere of their jointly commissioned work The Mask of
Esther, in a repeat of the performance given in the Abbey the previous May, the
venue this time being the splendid West London Synagogue (near to Marble Arch).
The season opens and closes with concerts of English lyrical music,
celebrating the centenary of the birth of Gerald Finzi, a composer noted for
his response to words, resulting in "music that seems to be inevitably and
effortlessly at one with the poet's thoughts" (Andrew Burn).
Saturday 10 November
2001 at 8pm
United Reformed Church, Homewood Road, St Albans.
Finzi: |
Lo, the full, final sacrifice |
Howells: |
Sequence for St Michael |
Britten: |
Festival Te Deum |
Organ accompaniment |
A programme celebrating Finzi's centenary, including music by his
English contemporaries.
Ticket prices: £8
(£1*)
* The £1 ticket price is for young people
and students in full time education.
Saturday 1 December
2001 at 8pm
United Reformed Church, Homewood Road, St Albans.
Noel, Nowell, Nowel: music by composers past and present
including Medieval Anon, Bach, Poulenc, Leighton, Joubert and Mathias.
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Contrasting Medieval and modern versions of Christmas music, the
launch of the Choir's CD. Copies will be on sale - an ideal music lover's gift.
Ticket prices: £8 (£1*)
* The £1
ticket price is for young people and students in full time
education.
Sunday 13 January
2002 at 7.30 pm
West London Synagogue, 33 Seymour Place, W1
Bernstein: |
Chichester Psalms |
Malcolm Singer: |
The Mask of Esther |
Soloists: |
Vivienne Bellos, Robert Brody, with girl alto, harp,
percussion and organ. |
A second opportunity to hear The Mask of Esther at its London
premiere jointly with The Zemel Choir.
Ticket prices: Contact The Zemel
Choir, tel. 020 8368 6289 nearer the date for ticket
information.
Saturday 9 March 2002 at
8pm
All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney.
A Vespers sequence of psalms, motets and a Magnificat, set for
double and triple choir.
Ticket prices: £8
(£1*)
* The £1 ticket price is for young people
and students in full time education.
Saturday 18 May 2002 at
7.30pm
Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban
Monteverdi: |
Vespers of 1610 |
Soloists: |
Jenny Hansell, Judith Cunnold, Andrew King, Joseph Cornwell,
Joshua Ellicot, Simon Birchall, Julian Clarkson. |
With the Chameleon Baroque Ensemble. |
Experience the full glory of this justly famous music, in which
Monteverdi triumphantly demonstrated how ancient plainchant could be combined
with Baroque vocal and instrumental virtuosity.
Ticket prices: £16,
£12, £8, £4 and £1*
* The £1
ticket price is for young people and students in full time
education.
Saturday 6 July 2002 at
8pm
United Reformed Church, Homewood Road, St Albans
Finzi: |
Seven Poems of Robert Bridges |
Moeran: |
Songs of Springtime |
Britten: |
Choral Dances from Gloriana |
| with Martin Vishnick, solo guitar. |
Pastorally inspired music for a Summer evening.
Ticket Prices:
£8 and £1*
* The £1 ticket price is for
young people and students in full time education.
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