An English Christmas, With The Chiswick Choir
Performing at St Michael & All Angels Church
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For their final concert of 2019, Chiswick Choir will perform An English Christmas a selection of festive pieces from English composers including Finzi, Vaughan Williams , Britten and Holst conducted by Music Director Hilary Campbell.
It takes place at St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, W4 1TT on Saturday 7 December at 7.30pm.
The main work in the first half is Britten's Ceremony of Carols, a diverse and imaginative setting of medieval and Tudor carols for harp and choir.
The concert includes contrasting fantasias on well known Christmas carols from Holst and Vaughan Williams for soloists and choir. The late work by Finzi In Terra Pax, subtitled ‘Christmas Scene' is based on a Robert Bridges' poem alongside the passage from St Luke’s gospel relating the angel’s appearance to the shepherds. Soloists sing the poem and the words of the angel with the choir singing the biblical text. A moving and intricate composition rightly one of Finzi's most popular works.
The concert also includes Holst's monumental setting of Psalm 148 that he wrote for St Paul's Girls' School when Director of Music there.
Christmas Day – Gustav Holst
A Ceremony of Carols – Benjamin Britten
Psalm 148 – Gustav Holst
In Terra Pax – Gerald Finzi
Fantasia on Christmas Carols – Vaughan Williams
Starts at 7:30PM
Tickets are £5 for under 21 and £15 for all others.
Chiswick Choir is a large amateur choir that has been rehearsing and performing in Chiswick W4 for over forty years. The Choir performs at least three concerts each year and has covered a wide repertoire covering classical choral works from the 16th-20th centuries along with more contemporary pieces.
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November 30, 2019
