Crouch End Festival Chorus – 7:30pm
Hailed by Betjeman as the Arts and Crafts cathedral, Holy Trinity Sloane Square provides the magnificent backdrop for the eclectic repertoire which kicks off the 40th anniversary season of the renowned Crouch End Festival Chorus.
This concert of a cappella works features Tallis’s glorious 40-part motet Spem in alium, the ethereal, lyrical Mass in G minor by Vaughan Williams, and Allegri’s mesmerising Miserere. The concert is completed by Rheinberger’s gentle lullaby Abendlied, and three pieces from the recently released Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers.
CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS
THE CHOIR
In the 40 years since it gave its first concert, Crouch End Festival Chorus, under the leadership of its co-founder David Temple MBE, has grown to be one of the world’s leading and most versatile symphonic choirs.
Now with over 140 singers on its books, it stages its own promotions in the UK’s leading concert venues, has made seventeen appearances at the BBC Proms and worked with some of the finest conductors and orchestras.
Its repertoire extends from the Renaissance through more traditional choral music to works by leading contemporary composers including John Adams, Hans Zimmer and Philip Glass. CEFC regularly commissions new choral music and champions underrepresented composers.
CEFC is in great demand for live promotions and recordings, most recently Elgar’s great oratorio The Kingdom, with soloists Francesca Chiejina, Dame Sarah Connolly, Benjamin Hulett and Ashley Riches, to be released by Signum Records. Its film and TV work has included the Elton John biopic, Rocketman, and Dr Who.
TICKETS
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