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Chorus gears up for Gloria
PREVIEW: NORTH LONDON CONCERTS
Various Venues
by Sarah Dawes
THE North Camden Chorus grew out of the William Ellis and Parliament Hill Schools’ parents’ and friends’ choir, so it is perhaps appropriate that they have chosen Vivaldi’s Gloria for their next concert.
It was written specially for the girls’ orphanage in Venice where he taught music from 1703. The girls were given training in choral singing, as well as instrumental tuition.
Contemporary reports say the concerts were of a very high standard, and the income raised helped with the running costs of the orphanage.
This Friday at 7.30 in St Mary’s Brookfield, Dartmouth Park, the North Camden Chorus, under its conductor Ian Gibson, himself a School Music Director, will be performing the Gloria as well as several motets, Elgar’s Ave Verum, Lift up your Heads O ye Gates, by William Mathias and I waited patiently for the Lord by local composer and teacher Philip Godfrey.
If you can’t manage Friday night, wend your way to St Mark’s Primrose Hill on Saturday, at 7.30pm where the Royal Free Music Society and the Hampstead Sinfonietta will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no 5, Op 64, conducted by Andrew Rochford, and Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass, conducted by Wyn Hyland.
The slow movement of the Fifth symphony has been used in several television shows and will be recognised by many who have never heard the whole work. The St Cecilia Mass was written in1855, 20 years before Gounod came to live in England.
It was so popular that it was published in several forms in England and he had problems with its copyright. It is very operatic with the most wonderfully rousing Credo.
Gounod’s younger contemporary Sir John Stainer was organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1860 to 1872 when he moved to St Paul’s Cathedral. He later became professor of music at Oxford and was knighted in 1888.
On Sunday at 6pm, his cantata The Crucifixion will be performed by the Cantors of St Mary’s Brookfield.
This is part of the Palm Sunday services, and the conductor will be Andrew Nicholson their Director of Music. The organ will be played by Alastair Friend. They will also perform two motets, Crucifixus est by Lotti, (1667-1740) another Venetian, and Vater Unser by Cornelius (1824-74) Gerry Cornelius. Tickets £5 on the door or in advance on 020 7267 5941.
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