Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha Handel: And the Glory of the Lord – from The Messiah J. S. Bach: Fürchte dich nicht – motet, BWV 228 T. L. de Victoria: Ave Maria Palestrina: Exsultate Deo György Ligeti: Hungarian Rock Duruflé: Prelude and Fugue on the name ALAIN Wagner: Rienzi – overture Messiaen: O sacrum convivium Messiaen: Desseins éternels Messiaen: Dieu parmi nous John Tavener: The Lamb Philip Ledger: Sussex Carol John Rutter: There is a Flower Ch. Wood: Ding Dong, Merrily on H...igh Mark Blatchly: Silent Night William Matthias: A Babe is Born This concert evokes a traditional English Christmas with a British organist and choir. Centre stage will be one of Great Britain’s best known musicians Thomas Trotter. His career is linked to Birmingham where he was appointed the city organist in 1983. He is currently a guest professor at the London Royal College of Music, having formerly studied at Cambridge’s King’s College and then in Paris in Marie-Claire Alain’s class. In 2002, he was the first organist to win the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for best instrumental musician. He gives concerts all over Europe and solo recitals at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Vienna Musikverein and the Konzerthaus, as well as the London Royal Festival Hall. He has performed at leading festivals and worked with such conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Charles Mackerras and Simon Rattle. His recording of Liszt works won the French critics’ “Grand Prix du Disque” in 1995. The St. John’s College Choir has existed now for three hundred years and is one of the finest embodiments of the English choral tradition. They made many recordings with former conductor George Guest which are now regarded as classics; they sold over two hundred thousand copies of their series devoted to English choral music. Recently, Andrew Nethsingha was appointed choirmaster. Born in 1968, he began his musical career as a chorister in Exeter cathedral. Besides choral concerts, he regularly conducts the finest British symphonic ensembles, from the Philharmonia Orchestra to the Birmingham Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert will be preceded by a discussion entitled 'ForeWord', beginning at 18:30 in the Bartók Béla National Concert Hall, where people with a ticket for the performance in question can get acquainted with the performing artist and the works on show.
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