Vaughan Williams  Five Mystical Songs
Widor Organ Mass
Kodály Missa Brevis  

Sunday 30 May 2010, 3.00 pm
Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
Conductor Michael Bawtree
Organ Morley Whitehead

Edinburgh Royal Choral Union
Halifax Choral Society

The city’s largest choir, the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, joins forces with the Halifax Choral Society for an afternoon of choral and organ splendour. The programme includes Vaughan Williams's  Five Mystical Songs - settings of poems by the 17th-century poet George Herbert; Zoltán Kodály’s Missa Brevis - written under the full stress of  the Second World War in 1942 while Kodály was hiding with his friends in Budapest from occupying German forces; and the champion of French organ music – Charles-Marie Widor’s magnificent Organ Mass. The two choirs will be conducted by ERCU’s “conspicuously attentive and adept young conductor” Michael Bawtree with organ accompaniment provided by Morley Whitehead.

Tickets (£12, £15; concessions £10, student £5)   available from Usher Hall Box office   0131 228 1155 or www.usherhall.co.uk

 

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