Spring
Concert
- St Gabriel's
Church, Cwmbran, Saturday 20th March 2010, 7.30pm
Our
Spring Concert this year included the beautiful
Lux Aeterna written by the
highly respected American composer Morten Lauridsen.
This uplifting work echoes of a
direct link back over thirteen centuries to the codification of
plainchant by Pope Gregory, the playfulness of early Baroque
counterpoint, through to the cantus firmus employed by Bach and
Palestrina and the sonorities heard in Brahms' Requiem.
Lauridsen’s Ave
Maria,
written for the seventieth birthday
of the conductor of the Los Angeles Master Chorale also formed part
of our programme.
Also featured was a work by Joseph Haydn which was thought lost,
but was subsequently rediscovered after almost two centuries in the
National Museum, Prague, in 1964. We were pleased to present
Responsoria de
Venerabili Sacramento together with his Missa Brevis in F
Major.
The choir also performed Antonio Vivaldi’s Credo,
and a piece that we were very excited
to bring to the South Wales Audience - Max Bruch’s
Jubilate
Amen, a setting in Latin
of part of a poem by Thomas Moore and found in his
National
Airs, published in 1818 -
“Hark! The vesper hymn is stealing”
Nigel Jarrett of the South Wales Argus wrote a very positive review
of our concert which can be found here
Concert
- St Mary’s
Church, Usk, Monmouthshire, Saturday 22nd May 2010
This
concert took place in the beautiful Monmouthshire Town of Usk in
the Priory Church of St Mary. On a gloriously warm Saturday evening
- with temperatures rising as high as 25 degrees Centigrade - the
choir did not disappoint, performing such works as Prince
Albert’s ‘O Be
Joyful’, Tavener’s
‘The
Lamb’ and more modern
works such as the Kings Singers’ reworking of Billy Joel
Classic ‘And So It
Goes’, with the
beautifully soaring soprano voice of our own Anne
Price-Jones.
We look forward to welcoming you to our next concert. Please check
the ‘Upcoming Events’ page for further details.
Concert
- Saturday 19th
June 2010, 7.30pm
- St Catwg’s Church,
Llangattock
Christmas
Concert 2010
- St Gabriel's
Church, Cwmbran, Saturday 4th December 2010, 7.30pm
Our
Christmas concert was dedicated to the memory of Dr Godfrey Barker,
long-time member of the Choir and our treasure. He passed away
earlier this year, and the concert was a fitting tribute to
him.
Carol
Concert
- St Cadoc’s
Church, Caerleon, Saturday 18th December 2010, 7.30pm
Due
to the ice and snow, in what was Britain’s coldest winter for
almost 100 years, this concert was sadly cancelled on the grounds
of safety.
