GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO!
St Andrew's Church, Curry Rivel TA10 0HQ
With this concert we returned, post-pandemic lockdown, to live music-making with great joy, albeit tempered by caution and uncertainty! We chose music of joy, light, and thankfulness, reflecting our own feelings at being 'released' from a long period of darkness.
Vivaldi's extraordinary Gloria was paired with several anthems from John Rutter’s Psalmfest. Though the musical language of the two composers is very different, they share an immediacy, a directness and an infectious excitement that seemed ideal for our return to the concert platform. We were joined by our very good friend Richard Pearce on the organ, and the concert also featured several of the choir members as soloists.
This was a very happy occasion, and it was lovely to meet up with our audience again after such an unwelcome enforced separation.
VIVALDI Gloria in D (RV589)
RUTTER Psalmfest (excerpts)
JS BACH Chorale Prelude on 'In dir ist Freude' BWV615
JS BACH Chorale Prelude on ‘Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier’ BWV731
Richard Pearce organ
Richard Laing conductor
