Cantores Chamber Choir, directed by Simon Harper and accompanied by organist Warwick Cole, presents a programme of Baroque and Romantic music by Schütz, Bach, Bruckner, Brahms and Rheinberger. Organist and composer Josef Rheinberger was born in Liechtenstein but spent most of his life in Bavaria, and the central work of the programme is his sumptuous Mass for Double Choir in E flat, and the programme will conclude with his glorious six-part anthem Abendlied. The concert will open with J.S. Bach’s motet ‘O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht’, based on a chorale melody, followed by three motets by Heinrich Schütz, who was regarded as the most important German composer before Bach. The programme will also feature four motets by Austrian organist and composer Anton Bruckner, and two pieces by Johannes Brahms, including his exquisite setting of words by the 16th Century poet Paul Flemming, ‘Geistliches Lied’.
Saturday 1 July 2023 at Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton (7:30pm)
Tickets £15 to include a programme. U18s free. Book online here or call Andrew on 07800 737078. U18s free – they don’t need a ticket.