RESOUNDING BRASS AND SOARING VOICES
Start celebrating Christmas with an outstanding brass ensemble, a full chorus, and the music of British composers including Howard (the Snowman) Blake, and Paul Patterson.
On Saturday December 15 2007, in the warm atmosphere of the Emmanuel United Reformed Church in Cambridge, Prime Brass (one of the UK’s leading brass ensembles) joins forces with the Cambridge Philharmonic Society Chorus in a glorious concert of music for voices and brass instruments.
Formed in 1989, Prime Brass are a Cambridge-based group who entertain audiences both here and abroad. Virtuosic and engaging, one of their specialities is music written for brass and voices. This December concert, therefore, features exactly the kind of repertoire they are especially happy to play.
The evening kicks off with Paul Patterson’s exciting Paris Fanfare, written to celebrate the opening of the Channel Tunnel, and finishes with the composer’s Magnificat, a blaze of sonorous beauty in which Patterson uses the combination of brass and voices to exhilirating and spine-tingling effect. Fans of the Cambridge Philharmonic Society will know that Paul Patterson has been the Society’s composer in focus for the last twelve months, during which time they have performed many of his works including his version of Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood, which was received so enthusiastically by the Philharmonic’s younger fans earlier this year.
Returning briefly to Paris, the audience will also hear Guy Llewellyn play Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular Andante for Horn and Organ, and the combined forces of Prime Brass and the Philharmonic chorus, conducted by Tim Redmond, will then perform Four Songs of the Nativity, Howard Blake’s beautiful settings of four medieval carols about the Virgin Mary and the birth of Christ.
A feast for the ear and a delight for the eyes, this concert will leave the audience inspired and uplifted.
Tickets (£12 unreserved; £6 children and students on the door) can be bought online at www.cam-phil.org.uk, and are also available from the Cambridge Arts Theatre Box Office, St Mary's Passage, Cambridge (tel: 01223 503333).
Emmanuel United Reformed Church is situated on Trumpington Street. The concert starts at 7.30pm.
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