Talented quartet to join choir’s Mozart tribute
Crieff Choral Group will present ‘In Praise of Mozart’ next month.
The celebration of the great composer is billed as an evening not to be missed and takes place on Sunday, March 26, at 7.30pm in Crieff Parish Church.
Soloists Jessica Leary (soprano), Laura Margaret Smith (mezzosoprano), Ted Black (tenor) and Jonathan Sedgwick (bass) have all sung with Scottish Opera.
The choir and soloists will be accompanied by the City of Perth Sinfonia, all conducted by the choir’s director of music Peter Rutterford in a celebration of Mozart’s choral music.
A spokesperson for Crieff Choral Group said the evening will be “a wonderful programme to celebrate the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
“The concert will open with Ave Verum Corpus, a Eucharistic hymn dating from the 14th Century and attributed to Pope Innocent VI, proceeding on to ‘Regina Coeli’, the ancient Latin Marian hymn of the Christian Church.
“The popular and much beloved ‘Exsultate Jubilate’ completes the first half in style.
“In the second half the choir will sing the Coronation Mass in C major, a missa brevis written in 1779 when Mozart was court organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral.
“This piece became the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations at the imperial court in Vienna.”