Choral music at the cathedral
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This bricolage of diverse cross-cultural elements is apparent across Navarasa : Nine Emotions and all of what YTK create.
James Yorkston weaves in Scottish folk, sangster and literary strands.
Jon Thorne is grounded in jazz and groove.
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Sacred choral music will feature in a concert at Dunblane Cathedral this Sunday, November 24. The Rosenethe Singers winter concert is built upon Bach’s ‘Jesu, Meine Freude’ and Swiss composer, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double choir along with flute solos and other choral music.
The evening will commence with a poignant canon by Philip Hayes ‘By the waters of Babylon.’
The virtuoso recorder solo ‘Two and a half minutes to midnight’ by the up and coming Hong Kong-born composer Dani Howard (born 1993) will be performed by Ines Zimmermann, who studied historical flute and recorder in Amsterdam, Bologna and Copenhagen.
Ines works freelance as a musician, teacher and author in Germany, writing journal articles and compositions for her students.
Bach’s great motet ‘ Jesu, meine Freude’ will be preceded by a movement from his Partita in E on the Cathedral’s Flentrop organ, played by Kevin eighth-generation hereditary musician Suhail Yusuf Khan brings to this feast of pulses and cycles is northern Indian classical, light classical (thumri, for example) and Sufi devotional
Duggan, who is also director of music at the cathedral.
Before Martin’s Mass, his Sonata da chiesa for flute and organ will be heard, a fascinating blend of 12 tone techniques within a tonal base, with long ethereal phrases contrasted ornamented counterpoint.
Martin’s Mass for Double Choir has never been performed in Dunblane Cathedral before and rarely in the surrounding area – so this is a unique opportunity to hear this work, which was first performed in 1963, the composer only allowing public performances much later in his life.
Since then its reputation has steadily grown and it’s now recognised as one of the great masterpieces of unaccompanied choral music.
The concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 and £10 concessions, schoolchildren free.
They can be reserved for payment and collection at the door by emailing info@ rosenethesingers.co.uk musical and literary forms.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan will play a special album launch show at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections before their own UK headline tour in March.