Elgar's Music Makers & Puccini's Messa di Gloria

7:30pm, Sat, 13 Apr 2024

Type of event:	Choral Society Concert
Start time:	7:30pm
End time:	9:30pm
Venue:	Town Hall, High Street, Congleton, CW12 1BN
Description:	Tickets available on the door. A glorious concert awaits music lovers, as Congleton Choral Society presents its Spring concert on April 13th with a choir of 85, 3 soloists and a 33 piece orchestra. Get your tickets early as space will be limited! Both Puccini and Elgar were famous in their lifetimes. Think of a great English composer with memorable tunes and Elgar comes to mind. Think of a great Italian composer with memorable tunes and Puccini presents himself. Puccini composed the Messa di Gloria as his graduation exercise with its first performance in Lucca on July 12, 1880 but was not performed until sixty years later. Elgar composedThe Music Makers for the Birmingham Festival in 1912 and was his last major choral work. The piece is satisfyingly scattered with musical references to his other works: The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures. his Symphonies, the Violin Concerto and "Nimrod" (from the Enigma Variations). Taken from a longer article about Puccini & Elgar. You can read it here >> Orchestra: The National Festival Orchestra , leader: Sally Robinson Conductor: Tom Newall Mezzo-soprano: Emily Howard Cobley Tenor: Seán Ruane Bass: Miles Taylor