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Pakefield Singers present a Haydn Double Bill
Pakefield Singers will be performing their next concert in St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft at 7.30pm on Saturday 28th October with the Pakefield Players led by Jim O’Toole and Vetta Wise conducting. We present two glorious works by Joseph Haydn: his dramatic Nelson Mass and the lyrical Missa Brevis in F also known as the Jugendmesse.
The ‘Nelson’ is the most substantial of Haydn’s masses and probably the most well-known. Why the title ‘Nelson’ no one can be sure but it was certainly written within an month of the decisive Battle of the Nile in 1798, at which Admiral Lord Nelson was victorious, and by the time of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 it was routinely referred to as the Nelson mass.
The programme also includes Monteverdi’s well know setting of Psalm 112, Beatus Vir sung by chamber group the Aurora Consort.
The ‘Nelson’ is the most substantial of Haydn’s masses and probably the most well-known. Why the title ‘Nelson’ no one can be sure but it was certainly written within an month of the decisive Battle of the Nile in 1798, at which Admiral Lord Nelson was victorious, and by the time of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 it was routinely referred to as the Nelson mass.
The programme also includes Monteverdi’s well know setting of Psalm 112, Beatus Vir sung by chamber group the Aurora Consort.
Saturday 28 Oct 2023
St Margaret’s Church
Hollingsworth Road,
Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 4BW
Tickets - £15 (accompanied age 16 and under free)From www.ticketsource.co.uk/pakefield-singers
and on the door. Unreserved seating
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