Somerset Chamber Choir Concert - Mozart Mass in C Minor

Somerset Chamber Choir

Programme Details

Somerset Chamber Choir

Richard Laing – Conductor

Katie Trethewey - Soprano

Rhiannon Llewellyn – Soprano

Andrew Henley – Tenor

Angus McPhee – Baritone

Southern Sinfonia

• Amadeus Mozart – Great Mass in C minor, K427
• Ola Gjeilo – The Spheres
• Ola Gjeilo – Identity
• Ola Gjeilo – The Ground (from Sunrise Mass)
• Joseph Haydn – The Representation of Chaos (from the Creation)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Psalm 95, Op.46

In our Summer 2022 concert in Wells (postponed from 2020 due to COVID), we will perform Mozart’s Mass in C minor, a piece that many critics regard as Mozart's masterpiece in the field of religious composition, and which has a breadth of scale and a grandeur that recalls the great baroque choral masterpieces of Bach and Handel. We are also excited to be performing one of Mendelssohn’s five great Psalms for choir and orchestra, music that is less often performed than the Mozart Mass, but which nevertheless echoes its majestic splendour. Also included is Haydn's orchestral depiction, so ahead of its time, of the imagined chaos before the creation, a moment in time that we hope to echo in two movements from the 'transparent and spacey' Sunrise Mass by the popular Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo. We will be joined by Southern Sinfonia, one of the most distinctive chamber ensembles currently operating in the UK, and an exceptional line-up of young soloists.