Preview - Three choirs... for one night only
Published: 15 March, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
Three of north London’s finest choirs – North Camden Choir, Camden Choir and Camden Chamber Choir – are in action on Saturday evening singing some really interesting music.
The North Camden Chorus, conducted by Ian Gibson, is at St Mary’s Brookfield, Dartmouth Park.
The choir is singing the Vaughan Williams piece Towards the Unknown Region and Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise.
The latter includes the famous duet for two sopranos I Waited for the Lord, being sung on Saturday by Emily Phillips and Catherine Carter.
Emily, born and bred in north London, was a sixth-form music scholar at South Hampstead High School.
Since then, her performances include the part of Servilia in Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus put on by the Hamsptead Garden Opera two years ago.
The Camden Choir, conducted by Julian Williamson, is singing works by Russian composers at Hampstead Parish Church, Church Row.
Among them is Rachmaninov’s a cappella choral composition The All-Night Vigil, praised as being his finest achievement and, indeed, the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Also being sung are works by Bortniansky and Tchaikovsky.
Third, the Camden Chamber Choir conducted by Peter Lea-Cox is singing The Luther Legacy at
St Mary-the-Virgin, Primrose Hill.
This is a collection of German pieces inspired by the Reformer ranging from Luther’s early 16th-century contemporary Johann Walter through the next two centuries to J S Bach’s The Fifth Evangelist.