Saturday 25th November 2023
St Mary’s Church Fordingbridge SP6 1BB
7.30 PM
Tickets
Interval refreshments included
£15 advance booking
£18 at the door
£5 for 18s and under
Available from the Fordingbridge Bookshop in Salisbury St or online at ticketsource.co.uk/fordingbridgechoral
Contact
Call our Secretary for more information on 01425 656348
Visit our pages here on our website at fordingbridgechoral.org.uk
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We are a registered charity no 1199533
Our Winter Concert this year is anticipated to be one of the most spectacular concerts of recent years at Fordingbridge Choral Society. The choir is to be joined by the leading professional players of the Edwards Ensemble and soloists Alicia Mallace-Goulbourne (soprano), Persha Darling (soprano) and Thomas Aminfar-Antoniw (tenor).
We will be performing one of the greatest musical outpourings of love ever written, Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner, written for his newly wed Cosima and famously performed for her on the Christmas morning of 1870.
Brahms and Mendelssohn make up the programme with Brahms’ Song of Destiny, described as one of his greatest choral works together with his German Requiem, and which he adapted to conclude with a blissful return to hope after its earlier desperation and futility.
Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise, the choral element of his 2nd Symphony, contains some of his most remarkable choral writing, arguably surpassing his popular Elijah, with vibrant choruses and evocative solos, notably his masterstroke Watchman scene.
The FCS Winter Concert on Saturday November 25th 2023 is to be conducted by our Music Director Nigel Edwards, a former St. Paul’s Cathedral chorister and Principal BBC violinist.
Singers of all voices are always welcome and details of how to join and the concert can be found one the website here or from the secretary on 01425 656348. Rehearsals are in Fordingbridge on Wednesdays at 7.30pm.