Join the City of London Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus with conductor James Morgan, for a contemplative summer programme including Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Greensleeves and The Lark Ascending, Duruflé’s Requiem and the UK premiere of a new work from Libby Croad, The Brontë Suite.
Journey through some of Mozart’s most celebrated works with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus. The Clarinet Concerto, renowned for lyrical beauty and virtuosic demands, showcasing the remarkable talent of Katherine Lacy. Then, the grandeur, beauty and emotion of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor K.427, a masterpiece of sacred music blending the sacred solemnity of liturgical music with the dramatic expressiveness of opera, a testament to Mozart’s versatility.
200th Anniversary Concert. Brighton Festival Chorus will join the National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Rimma Sushanskaya to mark the exact 200th anniversary, to the day, of the first public performance of the Symphony. The Ninth Symphony premiered on 7 May 1824 at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, with the hall packed with an eager and curious audience. It was the composer’s first on-stage appearance in 12 years.
with the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Mozart’s Requiem was famously completed after his death by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Uniquely for this performance, Süssmayr’s Sanctus and Benedictus will be substituted by movements written by Mozart himself. The concert will also feature contemporary female composers Grammy-nominated Dobrinka Tabakova and Libby Croad and a premiere live performance of Juliette Pochin’s setting of Lemn Sissay’s poem Let There Be Peace.
Mezzo-Soprano – Ester Pavlů, Tiffin Boys’ Choir.