Haydn - Creation

Saturday 23rd March 2019, 7.30 pm
Royal Hall, Harrogate
The Amici Ensemble
Sarah Power, Soprano
Ben Thapa, Tenor
Miles Taylor, Bass
Andrew Padmore, Conductor

Tickets for this concert are priced from £15 to £20
with £5 tickets available for students, under 16s
and the unwaged.
Tickets from The Harrogate Box Office: Tel 01423 502116 (opening hours 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat)
The Creation is considered by many to be Haydn’s masterpiece composition. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as told in the book of Genesis. 

The work features three soloists who sing the parts of the three angels Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael in parts I and II. In part III Adam and Eve appear in the garden of Eden. The work also includes several monumental choruses for the HCS singers.
Faure - Requiem & Rutter - Feel the Spirit
Saturday 8th June 2019, 7.30 pm
Ripon Cathedral
The Amici Ensemble
Isobel Rose Soprano
Anna Burford Mezzo
Miles Taylor Bass
Andrew Padmore Conductor

Tickets for this concert are priced at £20 with £5 tickets available for students, under 16s and the unwaged.
Tickets are on sale from The Harrogate Box Office:
​Tel 01423 502116 (opening hours 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat) and will shortly be available from the shop within Ripon Cathedral
Fauré’s Requiem is scored intimately and departs significantly from the standard liturgical text. The work includes the lyrical (and frequently sung as a solo) Pie Jesu and the transcendent In Paradisum, with its soaring vocal line and murmuring harp accompaniment. The prevailing mood is one of peacefulness and serenity, and the work has often been described, quite justly, as a Requiem without the Last Judgement.
 
By contrast Rutter’s Feel the Spirit, a cycle of seven spirituals, featuring some wonderful Mezzo solo singing is vibrant, unique and classy and highly appealing. The ending just makes-you-want-to-jump-up-and-shout-“Yeah!”