Music in the Chapel, Oakham School, Oakham, Rutland

Music in the Chapel, Oakham School, Oakham, Rutland

Saint Nicolas

Sunday 4th December 2011  7.30pm

Oakham Choral Society Concert and Orchestra
Girls of Oakham School Chamber Choir

Holly Single Hurst soprano

John Graham Hall tenor

Angus Bower-Brown baritone

Martin Cropper violin

Tom Chatterton organ/chorus master

Peter Davis conductor


Vaughan Williams The Lark ascending

Finzi in Terra Pax

Britten Saint Nicolas

This concert has a real Christmas flavour, opening
with Vaughan Williams' much loved work and
Finzi's popular cantata, In Terra Pax, Benjamin Britten's
dramatic work, Saint Nicolas, tells the story of the
bishop of Myra, on whom Santa Claus is based.

It is a wonderful example of Britten's outstanding
ability to capture the essence of his subject matter
with a series of dramatic yet essentially simple ideas
to which performers and audiences can immediately
relate. The part of Nicolas is by operatic tenor
John Graham Hall.

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