CEFC – Stravinsky: Mass, Bruckner: Mass in E minor – 7:30pm
Renowned choir, CEFC returns to Holy Trinity, Sloane Square for another concert of contrasts and choral magic..
Programme
Stravinsky: Mass
Jessica Curry: Songs from her new album Shielding Songs
Philip Glass: Vessels (from Koyaanisqatsi)
Bruckner: Mass in E minor
Event Details
Doors Open at 6:45PM
Starts at 7:30PM
This typically eclectic feast of a programme is characteristic of the much-admired Crouch End Festival Chorus under its conductor, David Temple, as it returns once again to the glorious surroundings of Holy Trinity Sloane Square.
Bruckner’s Mass in E minor, originally composed for the outdoors, sounds magnificent in a large church. A 15-piece woodwind and brass group joins CEFC in music that echoes the world of Palestrina, Gabrieli and Schütz.
Scored for similar forces, Stravinsky’s Mass inhabits an entirely different sound-world – chant-like, stark and hypnotically beautiful.
Jessica Curry, whose award-winning music for video games has touched so many, wrote several songs during a time of extreme personal difficulty that are featured on her 2025 album, Shielding Songs. Powerful and pure, they include Kiss the Bairns, Pie Jesu and Home.
Upcoming Events
Crouch End Festival Chorus – Reimagined: Monteverdi to MacMillan – 7.30pm
Reimagined: Monteverdi to MacMillan
A captivating evening of sacred and reimagined choral works, blending Renaissance masters with modern voices. Featuring Crouch End Festival Chorus and the Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
David Temple MBE, Music Director of Crouch End Festival Chorus says
When I first heard the Ferio Saxophone Quartet perform last summer, I immediately got in touch and asked if they would like to work with CEFC and me. What is extraordinary is the amazing variety of musical colours produced by this excellent quartet.
This palette of colours works brilliantly for early music, as they could easily pass for cornetts and sackbuts - hence our collaboration performing works by Monteverdi and Schütz.
They are equally at home with contemporary works by James MacMillan, Roderick Williams and Sarah Rimkus. Our concert will be a delicious mixture of ‘reimagined’ works from Monteverdi to MacMillan.
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