What a season this is proving to be for Three Spires Singers! There has been great response to their boundary-pushing programmes with Graham Fitkin’s new Humphry Davy work in November and then Russell Pascoe’s original take on the requiem genre last month. It was wonderful to see so many of people at these first two concerts “post-Covid”.


For the Three Spires Singers July concert they are going back to some enduring, established classics by Mozart and Haydn.

Mozart’s C Minor Mass is full of angst, drama and unfettered joy, but there are also moments where Mozart shows his gift as a writer of melodies that transcend worldly things and take us onto another plane. Exhibit A is this clip from Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s recording of the work which I listened to a lot at university – the central ‘Christe’ section will melt even the most stressful of days: click here -
https://youtu.be/d55USFu6w-Y?t=148

As well as lots of involved writing for the choir, the work showcases two soprano soloists. You need exactly the right singers for these, with a tonal palette and vocal technique worthy of the music. Fortunately, the Three Spires Singers have Kirsty Hopkins and Rhiannon Llewellyn who I assure you will be worth the ticket price on their own.

They will be welcoming back Frederick Brown to play Mozart’s 23rd piano concerto. Freddie has performed since his days as a chorister in the cathedral choir, (you may know his parents Ian and Sarah who are linchpins of Three Spires Singers, among other things). It has been wonderful to follow his journey through Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music to his current position as a pianist and conductor with Welsh National Opera. Freddie has always thought deeply about music (and many other things!) but when he played Mozart 21 with the Three Spires Singers a few years ago he showed that enviable quality of being unencumbered by all of that thought when in the moment of performance – we can’t wait to hear his stylish and beautiful playing again on 2nd July.

TICKETS

All seats unreserved - come early for the best seats.

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Nave £25 - Gallery £20 - Side Aisles: £18 - Age 25 or under £1
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