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Royal Free Singers - Haydn: Nelson Mass, Willcocks and Mozart
Parish Church of St. John the Baptist Berkshire SL4 1LT
Saturday 29 March
The concert starts at 7.30 p.m.Disabled entrance at the side of the church.
Refreshments in the interval.
Tickets: £20, £5 student/child 12-16, under 12's free
Also available on the door, until sold out.
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Royal Free Singers - Haydn: Nelson Mass, Willcocks and Mozart
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Willcocks: O Joyful Soul
Mozart Symphony No. 29
Royal Free Singers with Southern Pro Musica
Conductor: Jonathan Willcocks
Soprano: Katherine Gregory
Alto: Ruby Bak
Tenor: Francis Melville
Bass: Oliver Bowes
Please join us for an exciting programme of music from the classical and contemporary genres.
We are delighted to welcome our Patron, the composer Jonathan Willcocks who composed O Joyful Soul to be guest conductor for the evening.
We start with Mozart's sparkling symphony composed in 1774 when he was about 18, following a trip to Vienna with his father where he heard the latest works of Haydn and others. The experience seemed him to inspire him to write a number of important new works and this is one of Mozart's better known early symphonies.
O Joyful Soul was commissioned by Epsom Choral Society to celebrate a major anniversary for the choir and was first performed in 2018. The structure is a five-movement work which has as its opening and closing the wonderful words of the Psalms of David, as its central pillar the heartfelt prayer of the 16th century Artchbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, and within this structure two poems by English writers who encapsulate much that is cherished in this country.
Haydn's Nelson Mass was composed in 1798, the same year as the premiere of his great oratorio The Creation, and of Nelson's victory over the French at Abukir. Its English title probably arose from Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton's later visit to the Esterhazy Court in September 1800, where several of Haydn's works were performed, including this mass.
Willcocks: O Joyful Soul
Mozart Symphony No. 29
Royal Free Singers with Southern Pro Musica
Conductor: Jonathan Willcocks
Soprano: Katherine Gregory
Alto: Ruby Bak
Tenor: Francis Melville
Bass: Oliver Bowes
Please join us for an exciting programme of music from the classical and contemporary genres.
We are delighted to welcome our Patron, the composer Jonathan Willcocks who composed O Joyful Soul to be guest conductor for the evening.
We start with Mozart's sparkling symphony composed in 1774 when he was about 18, following a trip to Vienna with his father where he heard the latest works of Haydn and others. The experience seemed him to inspire him to write a number of important new works and this is one of Mozart's better known early symphonies.
O Joyful Soul was commissioned by Epsom Choral Society to celebrate a major anniversary for the choir and was first performed in 2018. The structure is a five-movement work which has as its opening and closing the wonderful words of the Psalms of David, as its central pillar the heartfelt prayer of the 16th century Artchbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, and within this structure two poems by English writers who encapsulate much that is cherished in this country.
Haydn's Nelson Mass was composed in 1798, the same year as the premiere of his great oratorio The Creation, and of Nelson's victory over the French at Abukir. Its English title probably arose from Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton's later visit to the Esterhazy Court in September 1800, where several of Haydn's works were performed, including this mass.