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Tickets: £35, £25, £15
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610
Monteverdi’s famous Vespers was first printed in Venice in 1610 when the composer was working at the ducal court in Mantua. The work is monumental in scale, and requires a choir large and skilful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece. It is being performed for the first time in the Temple Church, 400 years after it was first published.
The Sixteen is an internationally acclaimed choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers in 1979. The group's special reputation is for performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, bringing fresh insights into Baroque and early Classical music and a diversity of twentieth-century music, and is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder, Harry Christophers.
£20, £15, £10
Temple Church Choir
Greg Morris - Director
Sally Pryce - Harp
Benjamin Britten A Ceremony of Carols
John Rutter Carols arranged for trebles and harp
Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols is a delightful choral piece for Christmas, scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp. It consists of eleven movements, the texts of which came from The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, by Gerald Bullett, written in Middle English. Originally conceived as a series of unrelated songs, it was later unified into one piece with the framing processional and recessional.
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