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Summer Concert
Summer Concert 2011
Chester Cathedral Nave Choir perform their summer concert on 30 June 2011 under the direction of Laurence Lyndon-Jones.
The Concert will consist of the famous and amazing Three Shakespeare Songs by Vaughan-Williams as well as his challenging Mass in G Minor together with other English choral works.
The Three Shakespeare Songs are taken from the fine works of The Tempest and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Each pieces has it’s own intricacies with inter-weaving parts making the human voice play both the part of the singer and percussion in truly beautiful arrangements of this fine text
1. Full Fathom Five
2. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers
3. Over Hill, Over Dale
- The Mass in G Minor is full of amazing English cadences throughout – some more subtle than others. Starting with a subdued and intense Kyrie the music moves through the traditional format in a weaving manner with the Agnus Dei as the climax splitting the choir into 12 parts!
We hope you can join us on 30 June for this wonderful concert. Tickets are available from the Cathedral Box Office for just £10 each.
Thank you once again for your support!
Handel Messiah
Chester Cathedral – Saturday 22nd May 7:30pm
Messiah is one of Handel’s most famous works and is considered to be one of the greatest works in the history of music. It premiered in Dublin on 13 April 1742. However – owing to bad weather delaying the ferry crossing to Ireland – Handel rehearsed the piece in Chester Cathedral.
The 18th Century Concert Orchestra communicates the brilliance and drama of baroque music – combining period instruments – candlelight and resplendent 18th-century attire to present a uniquely atmospheric recreation of 18th-century musical life.
Tickets £25 VIP, £15 adults, £13.50 concession, £5 children under 10
VIP Tickets include premium seats with a drink and canapé reception in the interval.
This concert is heavily supported by the Friends of Chester Cathedral
Mostly Mozart Concert
Saturday 23rd January 7:30pm
The majority of the music is by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the title would suggest. There is also music by Franz Josef Haydn – and an Englishman who was a pupil of Mozart’s – Thomas Attwood. The organ will be used in the concert and we also have three string players performing in some of the musical items.
Purcell, Bach and Vivaldi Gloria Concert – 13th June 2009
Music includes the famous Gloria by Vivaldi as well as music by Purcell and Bach
The choir are supported by the 18th Century Concert Orchestra
For a wonderful evening of fine music come along to Chester Cathedral on 13th June 2009 for this special event.
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Brahms German Requiem (1871 London Version)
The concert which took place on 14th March, 2009 featured :
Songs of farewell – C.H.H. Parry
A German Requiem - Johannes Brahms
The Brahms was the early 1871 London version with piano duet accompaniment. Soloists were Becky Hay and Ed Hartwell Jones