Welcome Spring at Earls Colne
For our Spring concert we are delighted to be celebrating four of the greatest composers. The lives of Purcell, Bach, Mozart and Haydn spanned from 1659 to 1809 and their music ranged from the Baroque to the Classical ages.
Tickets £15 (including wine in the interval) are available from Sarah Phillips:
sarahphillips365@outlook.com 01376 561719
Donation to St Andrew's Church.
We have chosen three of Purcell’s best loved Anthems including ‘I was Glad when they Said unto me’, and arguably Bach’s most famous cantata ‘Jesu, meine Freude’.
Haydn’s Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo is often known as his Little Organ Mass. He speeds through the familiar words of the mass by often giving the choir voices four different sets of words to sing at the same time! This gives rise to a joyous celebration of glorious music, and does indeed drastically shorten the work!
Mozart’s second setting of the Vespers was written in 1780 for Salzburg Cathedral and from it we have chosen his beautiful setting of ‘Laudate Dominum’ (O Praise the Lord), featuring a lilting soprano solo, echoed by the choir. It will truly be an uplifting welcome to Spring!