Spring Light Choral Concert From Addison Singers

Joined by the Junior Chamber Choir from Godolphin and Latymer School

Addison Oratorio and Chamber Choirs are combining with Godolphin and Latymer School Junior Chamber Choir for their next concert in Chiswick.

This concert, celebrating Springtime and the clocks going forward, features regular organist Edward Kemp-Luck and has a distinctly European flavour with a focus on British and Hungarian music. The Oratorio Choir sing music by two composers whose music is strongly associated with their respective countries - the imposing 'Te Deum & Benedictus' by Elgar and Kodaly's 'Pange Lingua', full of references to the melodies of Hungarian folk music. They will be joined by the Godolphin and Latymer School Junior Chamber Choir for Bob Chilcott's uplifting 'Canticles of Light'.

The programme will also see the world premiere of Michael Berkeley's 'Magdalene', the first of the new commissions that the Addison Singers have undertaken, written in memory of the much missed Cathy Bereznicki. The Chamber Choir add to the Hungarian flavour with sacred music by Liszt and two quirky 'folk-inspired' pieces by the greatest Hungarian composer of the second half of the twentieth century, Gyorgy Ligeti.

Featuring

Bob Chilcott - Canticles of Light

Edward Elgar – Te Deum & Benedictus

Michael Berkeley - Magdalena (World premiere)

Zoltan Kodaly - Pange Lingua

Music by Liszt and Ligeti

Junior Chamber Choir from Godolphin and Latymer School

Organist: Edward Kemp-Luck

Conductor: David Wordsworth

The concert takes place on Saturday 30 March at 7.30pm at St Peter's Church, Southfield Road, W4 1BB. Tickets can be bought in advance from here for £12 or under 16s £3. On the door the cost £15.

March 24, 2019