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Our Autumn Concert will be held on Saturday, November 21st, 2026 at 7:30pm at the Abbey School, 17 Kendrick Road, Reading RG1 5DZTickets available online at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/reading-haydn-choir
or send an email to [email protected]
Tickets will also be on sale at the door
Adults: £19 (£1 off advance sales)
Under 19 years: £5
Tickets include refreshments
Our autumn concert features two contrasting works written over 100 years apart.
The Messa di Gloria by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was written as a graduation exercise early in his career in 1880. However it was not published until 1951 – Puccini had filed it away as his farewell to composing sacred music. It is an uncomplicated work. Its style is direct and unashamedly operatic, and it is clearly influenced by Puccini’s hero, Verdi.
John Rutter (b.1945) composed his Magnificat in 1990. It is a joyous work inspired by feast day festivities in Latin American countries. The extended composition is in seven movements based on the Latin text, interspersed with “Of a Rose, a lovely Rose“, an anonymous 15 th century English poem, the beginning of the Sanctus, and a prayer to Mary.
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Abbey School, 17 Kendrick Road, Reading RG1 5DZ, Infosec, 30 Kendrick Road, Reading, RG1 5DH, United Kingdom
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