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8 ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY’S 143rd GOOD FRIDAY MESSIAH There is no better way to kick off the Easter weekend than with the joyous, moving music of Handel’s choral masterpiece, Messiah. This year sees the Royal Choral Society’s 143rd annual Good Friday afternoon performance at the Royal Albert Hall; it’s an event that forms an important part of London’s Easter celebrations. The Royal Choral Society was formed for the opening of the Royal Albert Hall in 1871, and the choir performed Messiah in its first season in 1872 but is was in 1876 the great Easter tradition of singing Messiah every Good Friday afternoon at the Royal Albert Hall began. It is thought that this choir has sung this profound spiritual epic more times than any other choral ensemble, estimated at around 280 performances. Messiah is the perfect musical choice for Passiontide, with the moving and uplifting music illustrating Christ’s passion, redemption and resurrection. Messiah contains one of the greatest choruses in the choral repertoire – the The Royal Choral Society. ‘Hallelujah Chorus’. It is thought that when King George II first heard the Hallelujah he stood up on his feet, and ever since, when the opening bars of this chorus are played, the audience rises to its feet: this is quite a sight in the sumptuous interior of a packed Royal Albert Hall on Good Friday afternoon. From the earliest days the finest orchestras, conductors and soloists have joined the RCS at the Royal Albert Hall on Good Friday and this year is no exception with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, soprano Mhairi Lawson, mezzo-soprano Madeleine Shaw, tenor Jamie MacDougall and bass Božidar Smiljani all joining the choir under the baton of conductor Richard Cooke. Be part of this great Easter tradition on Good Friday afternoon and enjoy Handel’s magnificent oratorio in one of the world’s greatest concert halls. Tickets are available from the website at www.royalalberthall.com or by telephone on 0845 401 5045. For further information visit www.royalchoralsociety.co.uk DELICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH SPECIAL GUESTS The Délica Chamber Orchestra will perform with Paula Duarte & Dante Culcuy tango dancers at Cadogan Hall on Thursday 11 April at 19.30. Visitors can experience classical music from a new perspective – Italian Melodies & Tangos arranged for string chamber orchestra, in works from Rossini and Puccini to tangos by Piazzolla and Albéniz and including leading tango dancers Paula Duarte and Dante Culcuy. Paula Duarte is currently world touring with tango dancer Michael Nadtochi, together they are known as ‘Paulita y el Gato’. She is also Principle dancer of Revelacion Tango tango stage show by Adriano Mauriello. The Délica Chamber Orchestra was founded in June 2017 in Madrid and comprises musicians from some of Europe’s most prestigious universities. Their diverse backgrounds, views and cultures come together in a powerful union of talent and love of music. Their broad range of musical styles, from Baroque to contemporary, has delighted audiences wherever they have performed, with playing of passion, sensitivity and elegance. For tickets, telephone 020 7730 4500. t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PLAYS MENDELSSOHN AND SCHUBERT Experience the intimacy and energy of live classical music performed without a conductor with the English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall (Sloane Square) on 16 April (19.30). The ECO’s leader Stephanie Gonley directs from the violin in a concert that’s been designed to show the ECO at its very best: chamber music on the most allembracing scale. Bartók’s Divertimento is one of the 20th Century’s greatest masterpieces for strings: a premonition of the Second World War, charged with a fierce, burning vitality that simply won’t roll over and be polite. Suk’s Serenade comes from a happier world: a song of summer, drenched in romantic melody and glowing with Bohemian sunshine. In other words, exactly what you’d hope for from Dvořák’s favourite pupil. In between, Stephanie steps into the spotlight, as soloist not just in the teenage Mendelssohn’s surprisingly dramatic ‘other’ violin concerto, but also in Schubert’s deliciously tuneful and virtuosic Rondo. The world’s most-recorded chamber orchestra, the ECO has long been an integral part of the UK’s orchestral heritage, with almost 60 years of music making across the globe. The illustrious history of the orchestra features many major musical figures including Benjamin Britten (the orchestra’s first patron), Mstislav Rostropovich, Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim and many others. Under the patronage of HRH Prince Charles, the ECO has been honoured to participate in a number of royal occasions over the years, most recently for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Later in the season, hear the ECO again on 22 May (at Cadogan Hall) with the phenomenal Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov directing Beethoven's First Piano Concerto from the keyboard. Cadogan Hall is a two-minute walk from Sloane Square tube station (District and Circle Line), in the heart of Chelsea. Box Office telephone 020 7730 4500 or visit www.cadoganhall.com The English Chamber Orchestra Photo: Chris Christodoulou. 9 t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
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