Sheffield Bach Choir presents a wonderful programme of paired works, each pair featuring a well-known and popular piece alongside a lesser-known work by the same composer.
For example, Handel’s wonderful Zadok the Priest is paired with The King shall rejoice, and popular favourite Jerusalem by Parry with the beautiful Never Weather-Beaten Sail from his Songs of Farewell.
J S Bach works featured are Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, which most people know, and Christ lag in Todesbanden, less well known but equally marvellous.
Two settings of The Spirit of the Lord will be sung – a lesser known one by Norman Barnes, the founding conductor of the choir and music teacher at King Edward VII school, and the well-known setting of the same text by Edward Elgar, whose wonderful Nimrod from the Enigma Variations also features on the programme by way of an organ piece. Organist Peter Shepherd will also play an arrangement of Holst favourite Jupiter from The Planets, arranged by Peter Petrof.
Tickets are available online so come on down to St Mark’s Church Broomhill for a super summer feast of choral and organ delights!
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