Rise, Heart: Mystical Songs
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All Saints’ Church,
Great Chesterford
CB10 1NP
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Saturday 20th June 7:30pm until 9:15pm
New Cambridge Singers under James Potter with a programme of glorious choral classics.
Tickets: £15 | Students £7, with refreshments included
John Donne, Richard Crashaw, George Herbert – between them they represented a strand of poetry which became known as Metaphysical: a style at once profoundly spiritual, philosophical, and wryly humorous. Composers have flocked to set their poetry, which inspired some of their finest works: Vaughan Williams’ magisterial, moving
Five mystical songs, Judith Weir’s haunting
Vertue, and Gerald Finzi’s choral masterpiece
Lo, the full, final sacrifice. This programme allows listeners to bask in the perfect union of words and music.
Programme:
- Gerald Finzi Welcome, sweet and sacred feast
- Hubert Parry My soul, there is a country
- Judith Weir A wreath
- Vaughan Williams Five mystical songs
- Hubert Parry At the earth's round imagined corners
- Judith Weir Vertue
- Gustav Holst The evening watch
- Gerald Finzi Lo, the full, final sacrifice
