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2019 Singing Day
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Gounod St Cecilia Mass
Conductor Neil Taylor
Accompanist Pete Durrant
Soprano Léonie Maxwell
Tenor Christopher Littlewood
Bass Robert Brooks
As a youth, Charles François Gounod intended to become a priest, but decided he was unsuited for the priesthood, and expressed his devotion in numerous works of sacred music. The Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile, dedicated to the patron saint of musicians, was his first major work, premiered in the Church of St Eustache in Paris on Saint Cecilia’s Day, 22 November 1855, and establishing him as a noteworthy composer. Gounod’s ability to compose dramatic music for the opera is clearly evident: the Gloria and Credo are famous for their drama, power and memorable melodies. Saint-Saëns ranked the Mass amongst Gounod’s best works, commenting ‘this serene light which rose before the musical world like a breaking dawn, troubled people enormously … at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered’.
£22 to sing (including music), £5 students, £5 audience
To register to sing, please click here to download our Singing Day application.
To download the full Singing Day 2019 leaflet, click here.
....... or contact Gillian Banks, tel 01925 213949
email: stgeorgessingingday@gmail.com
Come and Sing
Our annual Come and Sing evening is open to all, and this season will be held on Tuesday 23 April 2019 at St George’s Church in Poynton. If you already sing with another choir and just want an extra evening’s music-making, or are thinking of joining St George’s Singers, you are invited to join Neil Taylor, accompanist Pete Durrant and all the Choir members in rehearsing a selection of music from our current repertoire.
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Pieces performed at previous Singing Days:
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2018 - Haydn's The Creation
2017 - Vivaldi Gloria and Magnificat
2016 - Mendelssohn's Elijah (part 1)
2015 - Mozart's Coronation Mass and Haydn's Te Deum for Empress Marie Thérèse
2014 - Beethoven's Mass in C Major
2013 - Puccini's Messa di Gloria
2012 - Mozart's Requiem
2011 - Haydn's Nelson Mass
2010 - Dvořák's Mass in D and Kodály's Pange Lingua
2009 - Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle
2008 - Brahms' German Requiem
2007 - Orff's Carmina Burana
2006 - Mozart's Coronation Mass, K317, and the Solemn Vespers, K339
2005 - Music by Elgar, Finzi, Gibbons, Morley, Pearsall, Stanford and Vaughan Williams
2004 - Purcell's Fairy Queen
2003 - Fauré's Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Madrigal, and Saint-Saëns' Calme des Nuits
2002 - Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
2001 - Purcell's King Arthur
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