Simon Ible, conductor Anita Watson,soprano Samantha Price, mezzo-soprano Ross Scanlon, tenor Timothy Dickinson, bass
Haydn Nelson Mass
“Arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition”, as declared by his chief biographer, H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn composed this highly dramatic and exciting work in 1798. Titled Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times), it was later nicknamed Nelson Mass following a performance attended by Admiral Nelson in 1800.
The University of Plymouth Choral Society has raised vital funds for the University’s Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence at a signing workshop.
The choir, led by musical director Simon Ible, sang favourite choruses by Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart and Bach at St Paul’s Church, Yelverton.
The event offered free admission to an informal afternoon performance with a retiring...
Saturday 18 March, 19:30 Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth £15/Friends £13
Simon Ible conductor Augusta Hebbert soprano Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron violin
Haydn: Little Organ Mass Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera
This concert reveals the expressive beauty of five centuries of European sacred voices through the music by Haydn, Vivaldi, Palestrina, Bach and Bruckner.
