Baroque Masterpieces Live Music & Concerts

The nave of Winchester Cathedral will resound with magnificent baroque trumpets and timpani as the Waynflete Singers are joined

BAROQUE MASTERPIECES : WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 9TH MARCH at 7.30pm
The nave of Winchester Cathedral will resound with magnificent baroque trumpets and timpani as the Waynflete Singers are joined by Florilegium for a brilliant evening of Baroque Masterpieces on Saturday March 9thThe evening features two joyful choral works, Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Dettingen Te Deum
Bach's Magnificat is one of his most popular works, with five part chorus, five soloists and full baroque orchestra complete with trumpets and timpaniHandel's Dettingen Te Deum, the hymn of praise written as a thanksgiving for the victory at the battle of Dettingen, similarly resounds with trumpets and an exultant soundAn outstanding line-up of soloists will join the choir
Baroque ensemble Florilegium, described in the Times as 'One of the most flamboyant of the younger generation of British Baroque ensembles' are well known to Winchester audiences for their stylish playing and lightness of touchTheir world-class performances have been enjoyed by in concert halls as far-flung as Buenos Aires, Sydney and Berlin
The choral works will be complemented by Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 3, a showpiece for the strings, and Handel's delightful Organ Concerto ''The Cuckoo and the Nightingale', with its lovely evocation of bird songThe solo part in the organ concerto will be played by George Castle, formerly organist at Worcester Cathedral and Winchester CathedralAndrew Lumsden, director of the Waynflete Singers will conduct and bring his usual passion and precision to the performance
Booking is open now through the Winchester Cathedral website What's On page
Winchester Cathedral | Baroque Masterpieces (winchester-cathedral.org.uk)
Cathedral Box Office: 01962 857275
Ticket prices: £15.00 - £50.00

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Artists: Waynflete Singers, Florilegium, Andrew Lumsden, George Castle, Rowan Pierce, Aoife Miskelly, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Gwilym Bowen, Morgan Pearse

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