Andrew
Staples - Evangelist
Håkan
Ekenäs - Christus
Sophie
Bevan - Soprano
Anna
Grevelius - Mezzo-Soprano
Ben
Johnson - Tenor
Jacques
Imbrailo - Baritone
Aberdeen Bach Choir - Guest Conductor Graham Wiseman, Rehearsal Conductor
Neil Meldrum
(Conductor James Lobban was ill)
Aberdeen Sinfonietta: Leader - Brian Dargie
Ripieno Choir of St Margaret's School for Girls: Conductor - Drew Tulloch
Sunday 23 April 2006 in St. Machar's Cathedral
Review by Alan Cooper (opens in a new window; close that window to continue browsing the Aberdeen Bach Choir website)
Past performances have been reviewed by local music critics:
"It was in the final work, the Messe du Jubile by Daniel-Lesur,that choir and organist came triumphantly together. This work was filled with magical and unusual choral effects which the singers took joyfully in their stride." - Alan Cooper (Press and Journal).
"...an exciting performance of Haydn's Creation Mass, featuring more excellent orchestral playing and crisp, well-tuned singing from the choir. The male voices, hopelessly outnumbered numerically, deserve special congratulation for matching the volume of the ladies without forcing the vocal tone." - David Haggart (Press and Journal).
"The choir sang with such inexhaustable power and joy it was easy to be swept along in a wave of ravishing sound." - Roddy Philips (EveningExpress), on our Easter 1997 performance of Schubert's Mass in E flat and Handel's Dettingen Te Deum.
The repertoire of the choir is comprehensive and varied and past recitals have
included works such as:
‡ Missa 'Bell' Amfitrit' Altera', Psalm: Domine Exaudi - LASSUS
‡ Vespro Della Beata Vergine, 1610, Christmas Vespers - MONTEVERDI
‡ Te Deum and Jubilate - PURCELL
‡ St. Matthew Passion, Mass in B Minor, Christmas Oratorio - BACH
‡ Dettingen Te Deum, Dixit Dominus - HANDEL
‡ "Paukenmesse", "Maria Theresa" Mass - HAYDN
‡ Mass in D Major, "Missa Sancta Theresiae" - MICHAEL HAYDN (First Scottish Performance)
‡ "Great" Mass in C Minor, Requiem - MOZART
‡ Mass in Eb - SCHUBERT
‡ Missa Choralis - LISZT
‡ Requiem - CORNELIUS
‡ Mass in F Minor, Motets - BRUCKNER
‡ Symphony of Psalms - STRAVINSKY
‡ Messe Du Jubil³ - DANIEL-LESUR
‡ The Twelve - WALTON
‡ Hymn to St. Cecilia, St. Nicholas - BRITTEN
‡ Chichester Psalms - BERNSTEIN
‡ Benedictus - HOWARD BLAKE
‡ Russian Requiem - PEHKONEN
‡ Gloria, Requiem - JOHN RUTTER
‡ Celebration in Psalms (commissioned by the choir) - MARTIN DALBY
‡ The Chronicle
of Saint Machar (commissioned by the choir) - JOHN McLEOD
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