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Published: 26 February 2009

Brave take on Rachmaninov’s masterpiece

PREVIEW:FINCHLEY CHORAL SOCIETY
Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church

AS choral challenges go, Rachmaninov’s Vespers are a serious contender. Over an hour of continuous unaccompanied singing, in Russian, will test any choir.
Finchley Choral Society takes up the challenge at Hampstead Garden Suburb’s Free Church on Saturday March 14.
Written in 1915, Rachmaninov’s Vespers are a beautiful setting of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony.
The work has been praised as “the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church” and is generally regarded as Rachmaninov’s finest accomplishment.
The programme will be framed by other Russian works by Tchaikovsky, Labinski and Chesnokov, and organ works by Liszt and Mushel.
Grace Rossiter will conduct the choir and will be joined by the superb soloists Catherine Hopper, Ed Goater and Richard Harvey on the organ.

• Finchley Choral Society will be perform Sergei Rachmaninov’s Vespers and choral works by Tchaikovsky, Labinski and Chesnokov at 7.45pm on Saturday March 14 in Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, Central Square, NW11. Adults £12, children £1. 020 8883 5631.

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