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Poulenc: Gloria / Vaughan Williams: Hodie
Worcester Festival Choral Society at Worcester Cathedral
Part of the Worcester Festival Choral Society 2018-19
Add to my Calendar 17-11-2018 19:30 17-11-2018 21:30 36 Poulenc: Gloria / Vaughan Williams: Hodie A feast of beautiful 20th Century choral music comes to Worcester Cathedral this November, as one of the region’s most accomplished choirs, Worcester Festival Choral Society, performs Vaughan Williams’s glorious ‘Christmas Cantata’ Hodie (This Day), and Poulenc’s celebrated Gloria. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Hodie was the composer’s last major choral-orchestral work. Celebratory and richly scored, this brilliant musical mosaic was first conducted by Vaughan Williams himself at Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival in 1954. WFCS is proud to reprise the work in the same nave, 64 years later. The choir also performs Francis Poulenc’s celebrated Gloria, which brims with ingenious musical expression, great beauty and a sense of pure enjoyment. Performing with the 150 members of Worcester Festival Choral Society – many of whom are selected to sing in the annual Three Choirs Festival chorus – will be the Worcester Cathedral an Voluntary Choir choristers, Meridian Sinfonia and acclaimed soloists. Worcester Cathedral Director of Music, Dr Peter Nardone, conducts. Worcester Cathedral, Worcester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Worcester Cathedral
8 College Yard
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2LA
England
Programme
Francis Poulenc – Gloria, FP 177
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hodie
Performers
Susanna Fairbairn – soprano
Tom Robson – tenor
Alex Ashworth – baritone
Christopher Allsop – Conductor
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Meridian Sinfonia
Worcester Cathedral Choir & Voluntary Choir choristers
Other concerts in this Season
Programme Note
A feast of beautiful 20th Century choral music comes to Worcester Cathedral this November, as one of the region’s most accomplished choirs, Worcester Festival Choral Society, performs Vaughan Williams’s glorious ‘Christmas Cantata’ Hodie (This Day), and Poulenc’s celebrated Gloria.
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Hodie was the composer’s last major choral-orchestral work. Celebratory and richly scored, this brilliant musical mosaic was first conducted by Vaughan Williams himself at Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival in 1954. WFCS is proud to reprise the work in the same nave, 64 years later.
The choir also performs Francis Poulenc’s celebrated Gloria, which brims with ingenious musical expression, great beauty and a sense of pure enjoyment.
Performing with the 150 members of Worcester Festival Choral Society – many of whom are selected to sing in the annual Three Choirs Festival chorus – will be the Worcester Cathedral an Voluntary Choir choristers, Meridian Sinfonia and acclaimed soloists. Worcester Cathedral Director of Music, Dr Peter Nardone, conducts.
