Saturday 26 October 2024, 7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church, St Albans
Rejoice my heart!
Magnificat - Pergolesi
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11 - Fauré
Piano Concerto in G - Haydn
Ave Verum Corpus, K.618 - Mozart
Mass No.4 in C major, D.452 - Schubert
Gemma Summerfield - Soprano
Laura Fleur - Mezzo Soprano
Thomas Elwin - Tenor
Sam Young - Bass
The Caccini Consort - Leader Julian Fish
Matthew Woodward - Piano
Michael Veazey - Conductor
Tickets: Unreserved £18; Students £9; Under 16 Free
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school. The circumstances surrounding the composition of this Magnificat in B flat are unknown, and it may have been composed by his teacher Francesco Durante. In structure it follows a cantata-like approach typical of the 18th-century baroque, thus it is laid out in six movements.
Gabriel Fauré wrote Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11, in 1865 at the end of his student days and it won the composition prize at his college, the École Niedermeyer.
Joseph Haydn wrote his Concerto in G major, Hob XVIII:4 in 1782, and it was published two years later. It was played at the Concert Spirituel in Paris by the famous blind Viennese pianist Maria Theresia von Paradis in the spring of 1784.
Ave Verum Corpus, K.618, is a motet in D major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. It is a setting of the 14th century Eucharistic Latin hymn "Ave verum corpus" (Hail, True Body).
Mass No. 4 in C major, D.452, is the fourth of six settings of the Mass composed by Franz Schubert. It was written in the summer of 1816, and possibly received its first performance in late summer or early autumn of the same year at the Lichtental Church.
