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Conductor: Jack ApperleyOrchestra: Chameleon Arts Wind Ensemble
Tickets: £18 in advance, £20 on the day, Under 18s Free
Available online, ☎ 020 8672 5495 or text 07940 486163
This Autumn, we be making the most of the glorious space of St Martin’s Church, Epsom with the performance of two contrasting settings of the Catholic Mass by romantic Bruckner and modernist Stravinsky, both unusually accompanied by wind and brass ensemble.
We will also give the first performance of a commission of Psalm 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God” from our own talented tenor and composer Peter Burton.
The Chameleon Arts Wind Ensemble get the spotlight to themselves for Jonathan Dove’s ‘Figures in the Garden’.
Stravinsky’s Mass, completed in 1948, was inspired by a collection of Mozart masses which Stravinsky found at a second-hand store in Los Angeles. Stravinsky said, “As I played through these rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin, I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one." By this he meant one composed for liturgical use rather than for concert performance, commenting that, "Religious music without religion is almost always vulgar."
Some eighty years earlier in 1869, Bruckner’s Mass in E minor was commissioned by the Bishop of Linz Cathedral and first performed there. It is based strongly on old-church music tradition, particularly old Gregorian style singing with the opening Kyrie almost entirely made up of unaccompanied singing in eight parts.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Martin of Tours, Epsom, United Kingdom
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