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Mozart: Mass in C minorThe William Byrd Singers
Eighteenth Century Orchestra
Stephanie Pfeffer soprano
Alexandra Wynn mezzo-soprano
Sipho Fubesi tenor
Louis Hurst bass
Keith Orrell conductor
Michael Haydn Ave Regina
Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, KV 339
Mozart Mass in C minor, KV 427
Mozart’s last work, the Requiem, is performed regularly by choirs. But what is arguably his greatest choral work, the Mass in C minor, is heard much less often. We will perform this great work on Sunday 11th March, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, with our Musical Director Keith Orrell, and the Eighteenth Century Orchestra, playing with period instruments. The concert will commence with Michael Haydn’s charming eight-part setting of Ave Regina Caelorum, and continues with Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, KV339. The latter work contains the famous soprano solo Laudate Dominum: this soprano solo, and the florid soprano arias in the Mass were probably written for Mozart’s wife Constanze, and will be sung by Stephanie Pfeffer. The other solo parts are taken by Alexandra Wynn, Sipho Fubesi and Louis Hurst.
Following our RNCM concerts in 2010 (Bach’s Mass in B Minor) and 2011 (Venetian music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries), this concert provides an opportunity to hear these wonderful works by Mozart.
Tickets £17.00 (£15.00 concessions, £5.00 students) from the RNCM box office or from choir members.
William Byrd Singers
David Curington oboe
Keith Orrell conductor
Byrd Sing Joyfully
Howells The summer is coming
Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid Op 49
Pizzetti Due Composizioni Corali
Britten Choral Dances from Gloriana Op 53
Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde
Wilkinson Dover Beach
Vaughan Wiliams Ten Blake songs
Pizetti Cade la sera
Holst Awake,awake, The evening watch, This have I done for my true love
Tickets £10.00 (£9.00 concessions, £5.00 students) at the door or from choir members.
Following the successful events held in the past eleven years, this workshop will provide keen singers with another opportunity to sing with the William Byrd Singers under the musical direction of Keith Orrell. Further details will be available at the Byrds’ concerts in Spring 2012.