Stage: Brighton Festival Chorus
Leading choir to appear in European premiere following Brighton Festival success
Following a grand achievement in this year’s Brighton Festival, Brighton Festival Chorus proudly announced it will perform Malcolm Hawkins’ ‘Martha And Lazarus’ in a grand finale of its 2013-14 season. This experimental new work will be presented, as a European premiere, alongside Maurice Duruflé’s ‘Requiem’ and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’.
The massed voices of Brighton Festival Chorus will be joined by the Orpheus Sinfonia and Benjamin Baker (on violin), under the expert baton of James Morgan. This concert will round off BFC’s 2013-14 season on home territory.
This is the fourth concert that BFC is performing in Brighton and Hove in 2014. It follows the resounding success of its March promotion featuring John Rutter’s ‘Requiem’ and ‘Mass Of The Children’, its performance in the Brighton Festival of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Litany’ with the City of London Sinfonia and the Hilliard Ensemble, and its appearance in the closing concert of the Brighton Festival where the Chorus was splendidly showcased in two great works, Bernstein’s ‘Chichester Psalms’ and Stravinsky’s ‘Symphony Of Psalms’ with the renowned Philharmonia Orchestra.
Each year, BFC promotes two or three concerts locally in Brighton and Hove, alongside its work in the Brighton Festival and busy schedule of engagements. This season alone, the schedule includes performances in Northern France of the Verdi ‘Requiem’, which will be performed in Thurrock on 3–4 July with the Orchestre de Picardie and Orchestre de Bretagne, conducted by Arie van Beek, and joined by Thurrock Community Choir as part of a European cultural exchange.
BFC, along with the London Symphony Chorus, performed to a full house in Symfunny at the Royal Albert Hall on 4 June along with such stars as Al Murray, Armstrong and Miller, Alfie Boe, Rebecca Ferguson, Jane Horrocks, Jane Asher and Sarah Brightman. Asher and Brightman conducted the massed choirs, in aid of a charity for Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease.
Saturday 12 July 2014, 8pm
All Saints Church, Hove
Tickets: £20/£16/£5 under-16s (unreserved seating); group discounts available
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