A Century of Reflection: Howard Goodall conducts the 麻豆社 Singers

13 Feb 2022, Milton Court

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麻豆社 Singers 2021-22 A Century of Reflection: Howard Goodall conducts the 麻豆社 Singers

16:00 Sun 13 Feb 2022 Milton Court

Howard Goodall conducts the 麻豆社 Singers in a concert of restorative, radiant choral music separated by a century but united by tragedy.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Mass in G minorExcept 'Credo', interspersed with pieces by Weir, Dunphy, Panufnik, Herbert, Wallen, Bax and Davies.
- - Judith Weir
  - Love Bade Me Welcome
- - Melissa Dunphy
  - Mourning Into Dancing
- - Roxanna Panufnik
  - Child Of Heaven
- - Philip Herbert
  - Agnus Dei
- - Errollyn Wallen
  - PACE
- - Arnold Bax
  - This Worldes Joie
- - Henry Walford Davies
  - God Be in My Head
- - Howard Goodall
  - Unconditional Love: A Cantata Of Gratitude And RemembranceEuropean premiere

Performers

麻豆社 Singers
Howard Goodall
conductor
conductor

Composers

Concert Information

Ralph Vaughan Williams鈥檚 Mass in G minor of 1921 was a game-changer for English choral music 鈥� a piece whose pastoral harmonies may sound like the stuff of English soil and summertime, but whose distinctive atmosphere reconnected the country鈥檚 music with a tradition that had lain dormant for four centuries. Here, the Mass鈥檚 movements are interspersed with contemporary works that harbour the same sense of peace and spirituality.

After the interval Howard Goodall conducts the European premiere of his own Unconditional Love. Written in lockdown, the cantata was conceived as 鈥榓 work of gratitude, of memorial and of hope for a world rebuilt鈥� after the pain of the pandemic. This radiant piece from one of the UK鈥檚 most communicative composers sets poetry written in times of hardship, much of it in 2020 and some by Goodall himself.

This concert is part of a weekend of music from the 麻豆社 Orchestras celebrating the 麻豆社 Centenary.