CONCERTS for Craswall are delighted to welcome back the Elysian Singers, led by their ever popular conductor Sam Laughton, for a concert in Dore Abbey on Saturday, July 4 at 7.30pm.
This year they will sing music by the two great German baroque composers Handel and Bach. Born only 26 days apart in 1685, they both created amazing choral pieces, full of melodic and harmonious wonders, which are loved throughout the world to this day.
The Elysians will be joined by a small consort of the Craswall Players in Bach’s Mass in G minor, one of the elegant short works he composed for the Lutheran church, and the wondrous ‘Dixit Dominus’, Handel’s gloriously exuberant setting of Psalm 110, which he wrote at the age of 22, after travelling to Italy.
This concert will be repeated in London at St. James’s Piccadilly onJuly 9. Having appeared frequently on BBC and commercial television, Sam and The Elysians will make their Proms debut on July 27 in Holst’s The Planets. Tickets available from 01981 510332 or email enquiries@concertsforcraswall.org.
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