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Holy Trinity Church
Sloane Street
Sloane Square
London
SW1X 9BZ
England
Tickets
Prices: £18, £25, £28, £34, £38; students £10 all prices
Book Tickets
Programme
Claudio Monteverdi – Beatus vir, SV 268
William Byrd – Pavan and Two Galliards, The Earl of Salisbury
Johann Sebastian Bach – Italian Concerto (Third movement Presto)
Guillermo Lago – Ciudades suite: Sarajevo
Astor Piazzolla – Libertango
Edvard Grieg – Ave Maris Stellis
Anton Bruckner – Os justi, WAB 30
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus (trans. Elwood Williams)
Giovanni Gabrieli – Jubilate Deo
Heinrich Schütz – Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391
Heinrich Schütz – Ich weiss, dass mein Erlöser lebt, SWV 393
Heinrich Schütz – Das Wort ward Fleisch, SWV 385
Sarah Rimkus – Mater Dei
Roderick Williams – Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined
James MacMillan – Christus Vincit
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610: Dixit dominus
Performers
Peter Jaekel – organ / piano
David Temple – Conductor
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Programme Note
A concert of sacred choral music from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, interspersed with a number of secular instrumental works with the same range of dates, performed by the somewhat unusual combination of symphonic chorus and saxophone quartet. Adolphe Sax patented his newly-invented instrument, the saxophone in 1846. Originally taken up by classical ensembles and military bands, the saxophone became best known in dance orchestras and then in jazz. Part of its appeal is that properly played a saxophone can sound close to a human voice. Saxophone ensemble and choir blend together well, and the combination can reproduce the sound world of early baroque music, where vocal lines were often doubled or replaced by early brass instruments, in particular cornetts and sackbuts.
The concert draws on a wide range of traditions, whether English (Byrd and Roderick Williams), Austro-German (Bach, Mozart, Bruckner, Grieg) or more diverse (Rimkus, Lago, Piazzolla); but what is most audible in the baroque works in the concert (Monteverdi, Schütz, Lotti, Gabrieli) is the sound of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice.
The resonant acoustic of Holy Trinity, Sloane Square makes it the ideal venue for all these works.
