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Somerset Chamber Choir: Mozart Requiem at Wells Cathedral
| Published: 23rd June 2013 17:42 |
The beautiful sounds of Mozart's Requiem will be heard in Wells Cathedral this month at Somerset Chamber Choir's 27 July concert.
Mozart's Requiem is shrouded in mystery and intrigue, but it is no secret that is one of the world's most enduring and popular pieces of music. Left incomplete at the time of his death, Mozart's musical last words will be heard in the same programme as James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross - setting Jesus's last words to vivid music of desolate, dignified beauty and serenity.
Together with performances of MacMillan's Strathclyde motet In splendoribus sanctorum - featuring flamboyant flourishes on solo trumpet over choral plainsong, and Mozart's intimate motet Ave verum corpus, the concert promises to be a moving and memorable summer evening of music in the grand setting of Wells Cathedral.
The choir - which has stage an annual Wells Cathedral concert since the early 1990s - will be joined by the superb professional orchestra Southern Sinfonia, together with four very fine young soloists: the soprano Ruby Hughes who is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and who makes her BBC Proms debut later this summer, the mezzo-soprano Helen Sherman - a Young Concert Artists Trust performer, tenor Andrew Tortise who is a former Wells Cathedral Choral Scholar and was also a soloist at the choir's 2011 Bach B minor Mass, and baritone Callum Thorpe, all conducted by Graham Caldbeck.
The concert takes place on Saturday 27 July 2013 at Wells Cathedral at 7pm.
Tickets are available from Taunton TIC (01823 336344) or online at www.somersetchamberchoir.org.uk
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