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"Oh for the Wings of a Dove"
When: Saturday 28th March 2009 - 7:30pm
Where: Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, CF5 2YF
Cardiff Polyphonic Choir - conductor Neil Ferris - with the Welsh Chamber Players will perform a programme of Mendelssohn, Haydn and Respighi
Tickets from the BBC Audience Line: 03700 10 10 51
Mendelssohn’s moving setting of “Hear my Prayer” is one of his most popular choral anthems. It includes the particularly beautiful movement “Oh for the Wings of a Dove” - the title of the concert.
Haydn composed the 'Mass in Time of War' recognising Europe's collective concern over the ambitious, youthful and at the time successful Napoleon. The baleful timpani in the Agnus Dei reflects Haydn's reaction to the escalating military conflict; these passages inspired the work's nickname, 'Paukenmesse' (Kettledrum Mass).
Ancient Airs and Dances largely derive from Italian and French music for the lute. They have become one of the more popular pieces of Respighi (composer of the Pines of Rome and the Fountains of Rome) in the late twentieth century. There is not only great grace and simplicity but also delight in their tunefulness.
Mendelssohn's Jesu, meine Freude (Jesu, my joy) is one of his choral cantatas, and is based on the hymn that Bach used for his motet of the same name. Whilst still sounding as if it came from the pen of his idol Bach, Mendelssohn develops the original chorale with imagination, flair and beauty.