Mozart
Requiem in d minor
Ola Gjeilo
Sunrise Mass
Requiem in D Minor
W A Mozart
Sunrise Mass
Ola Gjeilo
Saturday 29th October 2022
Tewkesbury Abbey
7.30pm
Cheltenham Bach Choir
& Göttinger Stadtkantorei
Directed by David Crown and Bernd Eberhardt
Orchestra
The Regency Sinfonia
The Regency Sinfonia comprises musicians who have busy schedules as freelance musicians in the Midlands and West of England, playing in a variety of different orchestras and in a myriad of musical styles. Their versatility and knowledge of the repertoire means that they are much in demand.
Soloists
Katy Crompton SOPRANO
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones MEZZO
Joseph Doody TENOR
Edward Grint BASS/BARITONE
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Ola Gjeilo
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) composed Sunrise Mass - a 30-minute work for choir and strings - with four sections: The Spheres (Kyrie), Sunrise (Gloria), The City (Credo), and Identity & The Ground (Sanctus/ Benedictus & Agnus Dei).
“...I wanted the musical development of the work to evolve from the most transparent and spacey, to something completely earthy and grounded; from nebulous and pristine to more emotional and dramatic, and eventually warm and solid – as a metaphor for human development from child to adult, or as a spiritual journey."
Ola Gjeilo
Bernd Eberhardt
As part of previous UK concert tours of Göttinger Stadtkantorei (the Göttingen City Choir), Bernd has conducted Mendelssohn in Tewkesbury Abbey, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Town Hall in Cheltenham.
Cheltenham Bach Choir are pleased to welcome Göttinger Stadtkantorei back to Tewkesbury Abbey. Together the two choirs will perform together with The Regency Sinfonia, under the joint musical direction of both Bernd Eberhardt and David Crown.
Read more about Bernd Eberhardt please visit his website
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G F Handel
Messiah
Messiah
G F Handel
Tuesday 20th December 2022
Cheltenham Town Hall
7.30pm
Directed by David Crown
Soloists
Eleanor Broomfield SOPRANO
Annie Reilly MEZZO
Richard Pinkstone TENOR
Felix Kemp BASS/BARITONE
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Orchestra
The Regency Sinfonia
The Regency Sinfonia comprises musicians who have busy schedules as freelance musicians in the Midlands and West of England, playing in a variety of different orchestras and in a myriad of musical styles. Their versatility and knowledge of the repertoire means that they are much in demand.
Monument to George Frideric Handel in Halle, Germany.
Messiah
Handel began working on Messiah in 1741, just before receiving an invitation to visit Dublin from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Handel took the score with him and it was in Dublin's New Music Hall when it was first performed in April 1742. The performance was an enormous success.
Divided into three parts, part one focuses on the time leading up to and at Christ’s birth. Audiences experience the joyous and powerful chorus For unto us a child is born, recitatives depicting angels bringing the good news to the shepherds and the uplifting final chorus Glory to God.
Part two relays Christ’s passion, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension with a range of emotional expression, from the crowd’s taunts He trusted in God, to the despair in the alto aria He was despised. Part two concludes with the uplifting sound of trumpets, drums and chorus blazing out the triumphant Hallelujah chorus.
Part three deals with the resurrection of Christ and the theme of Christian redemption in the soprano solo I know that my redeemer liveth. Equally moving is the bass aria The trumpet shall sound with a gloriously resounding trumpet solo. The final choruses Worthy is the Lamb and Amen is where Handel provides the audience with an exultant affirmation of faith.
Words sourced from John Bawden
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J S Bach
St Matthew Passion
St Matthew Passion
J S Bach
Saturday March 25th 2023
Tewkesbury Abbey
6.30pm
Directed by David Crown
Soloists
Mark Wilde (Evangelist)
Markus Matheis (Christus)
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Orchestra
The Musical and Amicable Society Baroque Orchestra
St Matthew Passion
The St Matthew Passion was written in two parts: Part One unfolds Christ’s betrayal, the Last Supper, his prayers and his subsequent arrest. Part Two traverses through the Crucifixion to death and burial of Christ.
Throughout the work the performance from the soloists feature more than the chorus. One of hundreds of sacred pieces Bach wrote during his long tenure as director of church music at Thomaskirche school, the story of the St Matthew Passion was taken mostly from the Gospel According to Matthew, but the verses that Bach set to music were provided by a number of contemporary poets. His principal contributor was Christian Friedrich Henrici, a poet who wrote under the name of Picander.
The detail from sculptural group The Deposition of the cross in church chiesa di San Francesco by Antonio Begarelli (1499-1565).
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