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Somerset Chamber Choir 40th Anniversary Concert - Sound the Trumpet!

Sat 27 Jul 24
Concert starts at 7pm

Tickets: Adults £30, £25, £20, £15, £10 (under 16’s half price)

More detail at www.somersetchamberchoir.org Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells BA5 2UE Somerset Chamber Choir 40th Anniversary Concert Sound the Trumpet Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2UE Somerset Chamber Choir Andrea Brown – Conductor Florilegium Emily Vine – Soprano Amy Carson – Soprano Tristram Cooke – Countertenor Kieron White – Tenor Angus McPhee - Baritone Choir concert details - www.somersetchamberchoir.org/concerts.htm Programme Details Eternal Source of Light Divine – George Frideric Handel Cantate Domino – Hieronymus Praetorius Thomas Tallis – Spem in Album Come Ye Sons of Art – Henry Purcell Magnificat – Johann Sebastian Bach Music of utter calm and tranquillity Be sure not to miss this celebration of the choir’s foundation in 1984. Unquestionably one of the most beautiful and most poetic of English cathedrals, Wells Cathedral provides the magnificent setting for Somerset Chamber Choir’s joyous Anniversary Concert, celebrating 40 years of glorious music-making. With a distinguished line-up of musicians, this will be a concert sparkling with resplendent jewels of the Renaissance and Baroque. The Choir, under the dynamic direction of Andrea Brown, will be joined by Florilegium, one of Britain’s most outstanding period-instrument ensembles, and a stunning array of vocal soloists. Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part masterpiece Spem in Alium, in a dramatic arrangement featuring cornetts & sackbuts, will form the centrepiece of this very special concert which will also include exuberant music by H Praetorius, JS Bach’s dazzling Magnificat in D, the soaring lines of Handel’s sublime Eternal Source of Light Divine, and one of Purcell’s most popular works, Come Ye Sons of Art. “Florilegium have become an indispensable feature on the early music landscape. Long may they prosper” (The Times)... READ MORE>

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