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The Sounds of Heaven
Saturday 08 June 2024, 7.30pm | Prior Park College, Bath
Our summer concert promises to be a feast of sound, featuring favourite and lesser-known works in the fabulous acoustic of Prior Park Chapel. In the year of the 100th anniversary of his death, we will be singing Stanford’s joyous Te Deum in B flat alongside Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb. We'll also be singing music by Busto, Dove, Lauridsen, Buchenberg, Guerrero, and others, maximising the possibilities of this wonderful venue. We are delighted to be joined by Peter King on the organ once again for this concert.
" I found myself transfixed by the sheer beauty of their singing and the depth of their understanding"
One of Bath’s most respected chamber choirs, The Handful has been performing in and around Bath since its inception in 2002. The Handful embraces a wide repertoire of music, classical and contemporary, and enjoys an enviable reputation for high quality, vibrant performances.
The Handful - An Evening of Festive Music
In all its grandeur, St. Mary the Virgin Bathwick resonated the warm and balanced voices of The Handful chamber choir as they presented an exceptional and articulate programme of music.
Tomos Watkins demonstrated the choir’s ability to sing a challenging and diverse repertoire of music from a wide range of styles and languages, enabling the audience to reflect upon how music portrays text. This was conveyed with a retrospective performance of the Magnificat, Exultate Deo and Cantate Domino as we heard settings by Swayne, Cui, Palestrina, Poulenc, Monteverdi and Rutter.
The Handful embraced the selection of music, performing with proportioned dynamic contrast, clear diction and eloquent phrasing. This concert provided not only an opportunity to hear the ability of an established chamber choir but to hear intricate solo performances from members of the choir. Highlighting what was a wonderfully festive evening of music was the unified and wholesome tone of Bach’s Der Geist hilft and a delicate and ethereal solo performance of Cesar Cui’s Magnificat, by Philippa Parfrey.
A delightful evening of music led by the brilliantly expressive and creative mind of Tomos Watkins.
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