Sunday 30th October at 3:00 p.m.
Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds University School of Music
Mozart in Salzburg
Leeds Baroque, directed by Peter Holman, with Sarah Potter (soprano)
Mozart’s popular Coronation Mass K.317 (1779), performed with the Epistle Sonata K.329 and the virtuoso Exsultate, jubilate, K.165 as its offertory motet, is contrasted with the neglected Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K.243, one of his finest Salzburg church works. The programme is completed with the delightful Serenata notturna in D major K.239, a witty reinvention of the Baroque concerto grosso.
Next concert
Sunday 12th February at 3:00 p.m.
Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds University School of Music
Music for State Occasions
Locke – Blow – Purcell – Croft – Handel – Boyce
Leeds Baroque, directed by Peter Holman
This afternoon’s concert explores the rich vein of ceremonial music written at the behest of monarchs. The programme includes grand and stately coronation anthems by John Blow (1685), Henry Purcell (1685 and 1689) and Handel (1727), including Zadok the Priest, contrasted with Croft’s moving Burial Service, performed at state funerals ever since the early eighteenth century, and Matthew Locke’s remarkable polychoral anthem The king shall rejoice, written to celebrate a naval victory over the Dutch in 1666. The programme also includes Handel’s Overture to the Occasional Oratorio (1746), often played at later state occasions, including Queen Victoria’s coronation in 1838.
Booking information
Tickets for each concert £15 and £10 adult concessions, £5 students and young people (including interval refreshments) available on line from the Concerts web page at the University of Leeds. Tickets will be posted to you free of charge, and there is no fee for booking or using credit or debit cards. Also available at the door on the day of the concert.
If you would rather book by post, send a note of your requirements, your contact details (phone or e-mail), an SAE and a cheque payable to The University of Leeds to Box Office, University Concert Series, School of Music, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT.
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