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East Oxford Community Choir and Orchestra

When
Saturday April 22, 2023 at 19:30
Where
St Michael and All Angels' Church, Abingdon
Tickets
£13, £11 (over 60s), £10 (students), £3 (under 18s)
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  1. Concerto for piano and orchestra No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
  2. Spring, for baritone, chorus and orchestra Op 20 - Sergey Rachmaninoff
  3. 7 Paroles du Christ en Croix - César Franck

Ths concert is a celebration of the music of Rachmaninoff, 150 years after his birth. The beautiful melodies of the 2nd piano concerto are followed by the one movement Spring Cantata, composed in 1902, just after the concerto. Based on a poem by Nekrasov, this dramatic piece tells of the triumph of Spring over Winter: a jealous husband abandons his intentions to maurder his wife when Spring urges love, tolerance and forgivenesss.

The work by Cesar Franck was composed in 1859 but was only discovered in 1955 and is rarely perfomred, unlike the settings of the Seven Last Words by Haydn and Schutz.


Venue
St Michael and All Angels' Church
Park Road
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 1DS
England


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