Cloudburst
St Barnabas Cathedral, Derby Road, Nottingham
Saturday 10 March 2012 at 8.00 p.m.
With the HELIX ENSEMBLE
and Clare Devine (Soprano)
conducted by Richard Roddis
Eric Whitacre's music is all the rage at the moment, especially since the invention of his Virtual Choir, and
Carl Rütti - from Switzerland - was inspired to compose choral music by hearing English choirs.
Programme
- Requiem - Carl Rütti
- When David Heard - Eric Whitacre
- Cloudburst - Eric Whitacre
- The Seal Lullaby - Eric Whitacre
- Hebrew Love Songs - Eric Whitacre
Following our annual Come & Sing, our March programme brings together two major contemporary composers: Eric Whitacre and Carl Rütti. The Requiem by Rütti is an atmospheric work for soloists, double choir, strings, organ and harp. It seeks to express feelings of grief, despair, anger, but also comfort. There are processional and spatial elements, and in the climactic final In Paradisum the deceased is, as it were, escorted out on a last journey, to the accompaniment of a blackbird's song.
Whitacre's Cloudburst brilliantly recreates a tropical storm, effected by the singers through an array of novel techniques. When David heard, by contrast, is almost a requiem - an outpouring of impassioned grief in a choral texture which spreads massively across eighteen voice-parts. A programme not to be missed!
Tickets:
Full price: £10.00
Full-time student or under 21: £5.00
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