A hundred years after the end of the First World War in 1918, this concert presents three works that allow us to reflect on events of this most momentous of years.
Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light is an intensely moving requiem setting of compassion for the grieving, its text including the poem ‘In Flanders Field’.
Sasha Johnson Manning’s choral suite War’s Embers was commissioned by the Whittingham Lives project which commemorates Whittingham Asylum where many shell shocked soldiers were treated after WW1 and is based on the poetry of Ivor Gurney, a tragic victim of war who spent many years in an asylum.
Leonard Bernstein, born in 1918, combined the Hebrew and Christian choral traditions in his uplifting setting of the Psalms in 1965, a plea for peace in Israel during a turbulent time in the young country’s history.
St George's Singers and their conductor Neil Taylor will be joined by Graham Eccles (organ), Pete Durrant (piano), Louise Thompson (harp), Ged Marcianak (percussion) and soloists Léonie Maxwell(soprano), Joseph Judge (countertenor) and Terence Ayebare (baritone).
