Show 39 - Tuesday 25th January and repeat Sat 29th

With the year starting early for South Devon Choir and others taking things at a more leisurely pace we can hear the rest of the programme from SDC Evening with Mozart, once again, lots of note bashing and learning but some very nice passages coming through.  We hear the Beatus Vir from the Vespers and Rex Tremendae and Lacrymosa from the Requiem.  I will try to translate the Latin where possible.

Hope you can listen in

John

Show 38 - Tuesday 18th January and repeat Sat 22nd

Continuing with South Devon Choir for the moment we listen in on their second rehearsal of the year - it is  Mozart's Solemn Vespers this week and they are working on the first two parts of the work.  The Dixit Domine (the Lord Spoke) and Confitibor (I Confess) - once again this is the first time the choir have done this, probably more of the choir have not sung this before than with the Requiem from last week - so lots of learning and note bashing again.  Very much in the Mozart tradition and easy on the ear if you like his work, even at this early stage some marvellous passages coming over, can't wait to hear it nearer the concert date.

hope you can join me

John

Show 37 - Tuesday 11th January and repeat Sat 15th

1st show of the new year is with South Devon choir as they meet back and start rehearsing for their next concert when they perform Mozar's Requiem, Solemn Vespers and Ave Verum corpus.  We are only listening to the first practice of the Requiem.  For most of the choir it their first encounter with it , so there is plenty of note bashing and learning.   The programme is all sung in Latin, which I will try to translate from the score for you where it gives the english as well.

I hope you can listen in and get to learn it with them - we will hear the finished product on April 16th at Central Church, Torquay, performed with the Festival Orchestra in the concert, called "An Evening with Mozart".

John