This year we are joining with our friends in The Capriol Chamber Orchestra to bring you a selection of much-loved classical pieces and a host of carols to make your Christmas really special.
The programme includes:
– Vivaldi’s Kyrie RV587
– Vivaldi’s Gloria
– Corelli’s Christmas Concerto (selected movements)
… and a host of carols including Bob Chilcott’s ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ and Jonathan Trim’s ‘Away in A Manger’.
Vivaldi’s Kyrie, requiring two choirs and two string orchestras, is not often performed and the musical drama it creates is a rare treat. This will be followed by Vivaldi’s better known and very popular Gloria. The Capriol Chamber Orchestra continues the classical theme with Corelli’s Christmas Concerto – a festive masterpiece.
The evening will conclude with a host of carols, including Chilcott’s adventurous and entertaining arrangement of The Twelve Days of Christmas and Jonathan Trim’s wonderful setting of Away in a Manger.
The performance will be directed by Andrew Hopwood and Jonathan Trim and accompanied by Julian Elloway.
The concert will be supporting Mindsong – a local charity reaching out to people with dementia through music and song.
Doors open at 6.45pm for pre-concert drinks and the concert starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets £18.00 (free for under 18’s) available online from ticketsource.co.uk or from M&B Stores, Minchinhampton. Box Office: 0333 666 3366
Programme
Vivaldi Kyrie (RV587)
Vivaldi Gloria
Interval
A Ukrainian Alleluia Leontovych
Good King Wenceslas Jacques
Sans Day carol Rutter
Mid-winter Chilcott
Corelli Christmas Concerto Opus 6 No.8
The Shepherds’ Farewell Berlioz
The Twelve Days of Christmas Chilcott
Away in a Manger Jonathan Trim
Hark the Herald Willcocks
Please join us for the carols shown in italics
Save the date for this glorious mass which was described by the composer as ‘the last sin of my old age’. Although it translates to ‘Little solemn mass’ it is definitely neither!