Our music
This is the music we are presenting during our 2024/25 season
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Our Year of singing: 2024/25​
Our Spring term will include music by:
John RUTTER - Requiem
Amadeus MOZART - Vespers
Edward ELGAR - Sea Pictures
John Rutter's Requiem is a musical setting of parts of the Latin Requiem with added psalms and biblical verses in English, completed in 1985. It is scored for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra or chamber ensemble. (Wikipedia)​​
Familiarise yourself with this performance recording on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV7kQKy-O7s
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Rehearsal tracks for the Rutter Requiem may be found on the Choralia site at https://www.choralia.net/rt01mp3/rt01mp3en.htm
Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor), K. 339, is a sacred choral composition, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. (Wikipedia)
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Many performances of this work may be found on YouTube. A fine example may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXe2W4CUMRI
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Rehearsal tracks may be found on several websites, but here is a link to Choralia;
https://www.choralia.net/mz02mp3/mz02mp3en.htm
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Additional rehearsal practice clips are available on YouTube - thanks to John Bowen of Shrewsbury Choral Society - here:
https://www.youtube.com/@johnbowen7568/search?query=mozart%20vespers​
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Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. Originally it was set for contralto and orchestra, but in 2010, the British composer Donald Fraser made a version for SATB chorus and strings - and this is the version we will perform.
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YouTube recordings of this work in Fraser's arrangement are fragmented. This is a list of the FIVE movements, recorded by the English Symphony Orchestra:
II. In Haven
IV. Where Corals Lie
V. The Swimmer
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Rehearsal tracks for each song, and SATB voice parts, may be found here: https://choralmusicpracticefiles.bandcamp.com/album/sea-pictures-edward-elgar-op-37​
