The St Albans Chamber Choir’s summer concert entitled Peace takes place on Saturday 26th June at 7.30pm in the beautiful chapel of All Saint’s Pastoral Centre, London Colney. Musical Director John Gibbons has once again drawn together an inspiring programme of varied music, ranging from the Renaissance to the present day, much of it rarely performed.
At the centre of the programme are British composer John Joubert’s intense Pro Pace Motets. Linked by the theme of peace, they continue to resonate with audiences today as powerfully as they did when they were first composed in the 1950s.
The Chamber Choir will also be performing two relative rarities – the Missa da Pacem, attributed to the great Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prés and one of the great choral masterpieces of the early 16th century, and a piece from 1936, The Peaceable Kingdom by the American composer Randall Thompson, inspired by the extraordinary painting of the same name by the 19th century American primitive artist Edward Hicks.
The Choir are also delighted to welcome the young and much-acclaimed Russian violinist Boris Brovtsyn whose performance of Sonatas 5 & 6 (1923) for solo violin by Eugène Ysaÿe will be greatly enhanced by the vibrant acoustic of the Pastoral Centre Chapel.
Also on the programme are the atmospheric setting of the Lord’s Prayer by the contemporary Latvian composer Rihards Dubra, and a motet, Drop, drop slow tears,
by the young British composer Brian Moles, until recently a Lay Clerk at St Albans Cathedral.
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Tickets priced £12.50 (£1 for children and full-time students) are available from the Ticket Secretary on 0845 658 8982 (local rate call) or online at www.wegottickets.com/stalbanschamberchoir.