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Saturday 27 March 2010
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Hadleigh Choral Society & John Lill
Hadleigh Choral Society
The Chapel Choir of The Abbey School, Woodbridge
Colchester Symphony Orchestra
John Lill piano
Julie Roberts soprano
Eugene Ginty tenor
Owain Browne baritone
Christopher Phelps conductor
Finzi God is gone up, Op.27 No.2
Ireland Greater love hath no man
Brahms Concerto for Piano No.1 in D minor, Op.15
Orff Carmina Burana
The concert will open with two well-loved choral pieces by Finzi and Ireland arranged for full symphony orchestra.
Brahms’s Concerto for piano and orchestra No.1 is an imposing masterpiece of the Romantic era. From the flamboyant opening, to the tranquil adagio and through the spirited finale it is an immensely powerful work.
Carmina Burana is Carl Orff’s best-known work. Inspired by the Wheel of Fortune it is physical music, immediate and stunning in impact written for a large orchestra used percussively. The poems were written by wandering scholars and vagrant monks in the late 13th century and are by no means devotional. The monks were religious believers, but they tempered their Christianity with relish for the delights of bed and board. Orff combined his experience of musical theatre and teaching of rudimentary music to set the poems into what Orff, in the Latin subtitle, called ‘magic pictures’.
Please note this event is not an Aldeburgh Music promotion.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
7.30pm
Tickets £18, £15, £12
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Hadleigh Choral Society
A long-established Suffolk choir, Hadleigh Choral Society has been led since 1991 by the experienced conductor and arranger Christopher Phelps, and is accompanied by organist and conductor John Cooper.
Recent performances have included Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
Colchester Symphony Orchestra (leader: Beth Spendlove) has been conducted by Christopher Phelps since 1983.
John Lill, an old friend of Hadleigh Choral Society, needs no introduction to Snape audiences as one of Britain’s finest interpreters of Beethoven, Brahms and Rachmaninov.
