The RFMS Choir & Hampstead Sinfonietta present an evening of music by Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach and William Boyce.
The choir will perform JS Bach's joyful hymn of praise - ‘Lobet den Herrn’ and his beautiful ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’.
The singers will also split into two choirs to perform Antonio Vivaldi’s exquisite setting of Beatus Vir. This beautiful motet is the best known of several versions of Psalm 111 (‘Blessed is the man’) that the prolific Italian Baroque musician and priest composed to be sung in church at Vespers. With intense rhythms and rousing melodies, the two vocal parts intertwine and echo each other - reflecting the polychoral music traditions of Vivaldi’s native Venice.
The joyful mood continues with Mozart’s ‘29thSymphony in A major’, performed by the Hampstead Sinfonietta. Composed in 1774 in Salzburg where he worked as a court musician, the graceful and energetic symphony reflects the self-confidence of the prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus, only eighteen years old at the time.
The orchestra will also perform the British 18th century composer William Boyce’s ‘Symphony no 4 in F major’.
