Eternal Peace - Saturday 30th November
St James the Greater, London Road, Leicester, LE2 1NE
Leicester Bach Choir presents
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem
Marcel Dupré – Motets (op.9)
Frank Martin – Mass for double choir (extracts)
Conductor: Richard Laing
Simon Hogan (Organist – Southwark Cathedral)
Iona Kaye (mezzo soprano) and Samuel Snowden (baritone)
Rebecca Burden (cello)
We have a programme of fabulous music for you, all under the baton of our inspiring Music Director, Richard Laing, including Duruflé’s Requiem: beautiful, impressionistic, modal harmonies forming a glowing support to ancient plainsong-inspired melody lines.
Frank Martin’s Mass for unaccompanied Double Choir, is a work of wrmth, serenity and passion, which Martin described as ‘a matter entirely between God and myself’ – probably a reason why it lay neglected in a drawer for over forty years until it was rediscovered and performed in 1963.
Marcel Dupré was a virtuoso organist and composer. His setting of the Four Motets Op 9 was originally written for choir with two organs. We suspect that’s why Richard has engaged Simon Hogan (from Southwark Cathedral) to accompany us on just the one organ as he always seems to perform as though he is equipped with at least four hands and four feet!
We continue to support outstanding young artists in launching their careers and will be joined, both in the Requiem and in their own cameo performances, by two prize-winning postgraduate soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music: Iona Kaye (mezzo soprano) and Samuel Snowden (baritone).
