NOVEMBER sees a musical highlight when The Petersfield Choir presents a stunning array of popular works which are both exciting and beautiful at it’s most spectacular concert yet.
The list includes Bach’s glorious Magnifica, an extravagant baroque masterpiece for choir and soloists.
Although this was heard in town earlier this year, The Petersfield Choir’s version includes four professional soloists and is accompanied by the excellent South Downs Camerata, augmented by organ, flutes, oboes, trumpets and timpani.
It promises to be a truly magnificent and unmissable experience, and is guaranteed to delight listeners of any age, said a choir spokesman.
To complement this, the choir and orchestra will also perform extracts from Bach’s Mass in B minor, which is widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of classical music. Full of energetic baroque majesty, the selection also includes the sublime Agnus Dei.
The programme includes Mozart’s Regina Coeli, a boisterous homage to the Queen of Heaven, and three well known orchestral miniatures by Handel.
The Petersfield Choir has a policy of making great music freely available to everyone.
This colourful concert promises to be as good to watch as to listen to, and is therefore suitable for everyone aged from 5 to 105. The choir confidently expects that any children attending will be inspired by the experience for many years to come. There is no charge for admission for the concert in St Peter’s Church, Petersfield, on Saturday, November 19, 2016, starting at 7.30pm.