Jul 4, 2015 ... Kodrtr$ Missa Brevis. Malcolm Riley - organ. Conductor - Alan Vincent.
ZoltinKod6ly was bom in 1882. Brought up in the Hungarian countryside ...
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
. AIAN VINCENT
GRAVESHAM
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Gravesham Choral Society St George's Church, Church St, Gravesend, Saturd ay 4'o July 2015 at 7.30pm
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Elgar Anthems Kodrtr$ Missa Brevis Malcolm Riley - organ Conductor
- Alan Vincent
ZoltinKod6ly was bom in 1882. Brought up in the Hungarian countryside, many of his compositions draw on the folk music he heard during childhood. This is exemplified in his lyrical Missa Brevis written when sheltering in the basement of the Budapest Opera House during non-stop bombing of the crty in 1945 by warring Nazis and Soviets. Tonight marks the 70n anniversary of its unlikey first performance in the Opera House cloakroom. Its official premidre was at the 1948 Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
A revision of his purely instrumental Organ Mass of 1942 and dedicated to his wife, Kod5ly's Missa Brevis is written for mixed chorus and organ with the regular parts of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei) fuarred by an inhoductory Introitus and postlude - Ite, missa est - for solo organ We welcome back Malcolm Riley as accompanist for the Mass and Elgar anthems, and as soloist in a varied selection of organ works including the Karg-Elert's magnificentNun danket alle Gott and Elgar's The tame bear. Of Edward Elgar's three anthems featured tonight, two are stand-alone compositions, and the third, The spirit of the Lord,the intensely moving opening chorus from his 1903 oratorio, The Apostles. Completed tfi 1912, Great is the Lordwas dedicated'1^/ith sincere regard" to the Very Reverend J. Armitage Robinson, Dean of Wells. This stirring account of Psalm 48 was first performed in Westminster Abbey. Elgar's dramatic setting of Psalm 39 in Give unto the Lordwas first heard at the Festival of the Sons of the Clerry in St Paul's Cathedral on 30April 1914. With the outbreak of World War I just three months hence, the passage "....yea, the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness, and strippeth the forests bare" eerily presages the horrors to come.
Tickets atf-12 (t5 full-time students) in advance by phoning 01474812726, from members of Gravesham Choral Society or on the door. www'gravesh?mcs'co'uk RECT'TERED
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