With only a couple of weeks to go to its summer gala concert – Bradford Cathedral, Saturday 12 July – the choir is putting the finishing touches to a fabulous programme of choral favourites – see the full programme below.
Chordiality will be joined on the evening by the National Festival Orchestra and by the Cathedral Organist and Musical Director Graham Thorpe and flute soloist Rosie Walsh. The accompanist will be Helen Orme.
The centrepiece at the concert will be Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved Requiem Mass. Voted 19th out of 300 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame, the Requiem encompasses some of the most beautiful melodies that Fauré ever composed. Far from sombre, Fauré’s composition is noted for its uplifting warmth and subtlety. In the composer’s own words, the piece embraces “a happy deliverance” and “an aspiration towards happiness above”.
The Requiem will be performed alongside another Fauré favourite, Cantique De Jean Racine, a piece that he composed for a competition, which he won, at the age of nineteen.
The full programme at Chordiality’s Cathedral concert will be:
- Cantique De Jean Racine (Gabriel Fauré) – orchestra, organ and choir
- Meditation on Bach’s Prelude in C (Charles Francois Gounod) – violin and piano
- Requiem (Gabriel Fauré) – orchestra, organ and choir
Interval with refreshments
- The Heavens Are Telling (Joseph Haydn) – orchestra, organ and choir
- The Rose (Ola Gjeilo) – choir and piano
- Caccini’s Ave Maria (Vladimir Vavilov arr Patrick Leibergen) – choir, piano and flute
- For The Beauty Of The Earth (John Rutter) – orchestra and choir
- Every Time I Feel The Spirit (Trad arr Iain Farrington) – organ
- Total Praise (Richard Smallwood arr Dave Williamson) – choir and piano
- Sing Gently (Eric Whitacre) – choir piano
- Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Guiseppe Verdi) – orchestra, organ and choir
- Sarabande (George Frideric Handel) – orchestra and organ
- Worthy Is The Lamb and Amen Chorus (George Frideric Handel) – orchestra, organ and choir
There will be a ‘bucket collection’ at the concert for Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank, which is the choir’s current adopted charity. The Food Bank is a non-denominational organisation, which distributes donated food bags to organisations working with vulnerable people in need of food.
To reserve your seats for the concert, tickets £18 including refreshments, phone 07949 696064, email chordiality.choir@hotmail.com or book online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/chordiality.