Reading Haydn Choir, Spring Concert - Mozart, Handel & Rutter
Our Spring concert will be held at St Joseph's College RG1 5JT, on 2nd April at 7.30pm. We'll be singing works from the 18th and 20th centuries which all feature brass instruments within our professional orchestra.
Vesperae solennes de confessore was the last choral work Mozart composed, in 1780, for liturgical use in Salzburg Cathedral, where the young Mozart’s father originally got him the job of producing music for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Mozart hated the job and the Archbishop so much that he quit twice, but still wrote the “Vespers” with their sublime and glorious “Laudate Dominum” while employed with the Cathedral.
Handel was commissioned to write the four Coronation Anthems for the enthronement of George II in 1727, shortly after being granted British citizenship by George I; one of his last acts before he died. The Anthems were immediately popular and have remained so to this day. So much so that Handel reused substantial sections in a number of his later oratorios, with just the words changed.
John Rutter was commissioned to compose his rousing Gloria for an American choir in 1974. Rutter himself describing it as ‘exalted, devotional and jubilant’, it has since become one of his most popular works. It is scored for choir, brass, percussion and organ. We’re confident that you’ll enjoy hearing it as much as the Choir enjoys singing it!
Tickets from rdghaydnchoir+tickets@gmail.com or on the door.
