Blackford and Brahms

Camden Choir

To celebrate its Golden Jubilee the Camden Choir has commissioned a new piece from the Ivor Novello Award-winning composer Richard Blackford, and this will receive its World Première, along with lighter pieces by Brahms, at the Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square on Sunday 20 March 2022, beginning at 7.00 pm. Tickets start at £15 and can be purchased from the Cadogan Hall’s website https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/camden-choir/. Please come along and support us.

Richard Blackford has called his piece Babel, and it conflates the story of the Tower of the same name with Noah’s Flood. It’s great fun and the Choir is enjoying getting to grips with it. There are three excellent soloists – the Spanish soprano Lorena Paz Nieto, tenor Mark Le Brocq and baritone Stephen Gadd – and plenty of noise as well! The orchestration comprises organ, piano duet and two percussionists.

The first half of the programme includes Brahms's much-loved Liebeslieder Waltzes (Op.57), a solo by baritone Stephen Gadd (Der Mainacht) and, to conclude, Brahms's joyous Geistliches Lied.