Concert Details
| Title: | Carl Orff Carmina Burana and works by Zoltán Kodály and Mia Makaroff |
| Performed by: | Brighton Festival Chorus |
| Time: | Saturday, 21 March 2020, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | All Saints Church, Hove |
| Description: | The familiar opening chords of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana make a magnificent introduction to a work which encompasses all the glory and tragedy of human life. O Fortuna is addressed to the fickle goddess of Fortune and though the sources of these texts go back to the middle ages, the sentiments they express, the feelings of love, of rejection, and of corruption and beauty still have resonance today. It is no surprise, given the power of Orff’s music, that Carmina Burana remains one of the most popular and exciting pieces in the world’s choral repertoire. The programme also includes Pange Lingua by Zoltán Kodály based on a medieval hymn written by Thomas Aquinas. This performance is dedicated to the memory of László Heltay, the founding Music Director of BFC and pupil of Kodály. Two pieces by the contemporary Finnish composer and conductor Mia Makaroff, Butterfly and Spes, complete the programme. Makaroff’s music has been made famous by Finnish a cappella group, Rajaton. Butterfly is an achingly beautiful song about love and the transience of life, while Spes combines two texts about hope, one in Sami and the other in Latin, to create an uplifting work. |
| Tickets: | £20, £12.50 (£5 for students and under 16s) Tickets on sale through ticketsource.co.uk 0333 666 3366 £1.75 booking fee is applied to all online bookings. An additional £1.00 booking fee will be added to all telephone bookings |
| Contact: | marketing@bfc.org.uk |
