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Plainchant Reimagined
This concert, the first with the choir's new conductor at the helm, presents three composers from the mid-20th and early 21st centuries whose music was shaped by medieval plainchant. Plainchaint, two examples of which will be sung by the choir, was the only form of music used by the Christian church until the 9th century, and it remains embedded in the identity of Christian sacred music to this day, creating a beautiful, sonorous architecture that rarely fails to transport its listeners.
The centrepiece of this Plainchant Reimagined programme is Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir (Messe Pour Double Choeur), written in the 1920s. The movements will be interpolated with medieval chant along with exquisite motets by Maurice Duruflé and Eric Whitacre that each reframe plainchant in their own distinctive style – by turns rich, romantic and positively technicolour.
The centrepiece of this Plainchant Reimagined programme is Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir (Messe Pour Double Choeur), written in the 1920s. The movements will be interpolated with medieval chant along with exquisite motets by Maurice Duruflé and Eric Whitacre that each reframe plainchant in their own distinctive style – by turns rich, romantic and positively technicolour.
Concert starts at 7:30pm
Tickets £18 | £12 | £10 | £5 (Concessions for under 18s and students)
tickets available from Bath Box Office
bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/plainchant-reimagined/booking-useful-info
Tickets £18 | £12 | £10 | £5 (Concessions for under 18s and students)
tickets available from Bath Box Office
bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/plainchant-reimagined/booking-useful-info
St Mary’s Bathwick BATH Somerset BA2 4EB
Sat 1 Apr 2023
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