Concert Details
| Title: | Between Earth and Heaven |
| Performed by: | Mayfield Festival Choir |
| Promoted by: | Mayfield Festival |
| Time: | Sunday, 12 May 2013, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield |
| Description: | • Angelus ad virginem • Dufay: Gloria ad modum tubae • Mozart: Ave verum corpus • Britten: Ceremony of Carols • Fauré: Requiem Chaucer’s 14th-century clerk was accustomed to sing the Angelus ad virginem to his own accompaniment in his Oxford lodgings. The young Dufay composed his attention-seeking Gloria in the manner of a trumpet for a civic function in early-15th century Rimini. Mozart penned his Ave verum corpus in 1791, in the last few months of his life, while trying to seek permanent and secure employment. Fauré wrote his Requiem in 1888, when he was organist of the society church of La Madeleine in Paris’s fashionable 8th arrondissement. And Britten compiled his Ceremony of Carols during World War II, while sailing across the Atlantic under constant threat of submarine attack. A Swedish cargo ship, a French salon, an Austrian apartment, an Italian market square, and an English attic are all relevant locations to the music in this programme. But all of these works are ultimately designed to be heard in church. They deal variously with proclamation, devotion, nurture, and loss. This concert celebrates the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth as well as the 125th anniversary of the first performance of Fauré’s iconic Requiem, and weaves a celebratory narrative around the relationship between birth and death, and between earth and heaven. |
| Tickets: | Ticket prices £20, £18, £12, £8. Half price for under 18s. Available online and locally from 29 March 2013. See website for details. |
| Contact: | Jane Bolger |
