2018 - 2019 Season

World War One Centenary Concert
Saturday 10 November, 7.30 pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Tickets: £15/£12 (£5 students).

Malcolm Archer: Requiem
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Movements from Rachmaninov’s Vespers
Amy Beach: Deus misereatur
Lili Boulanger: Hymn to the Sun
Edward Elgar: Serenade
Kromolicki: Jauchzet Gott, alle Lande

Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening by John Nash, © IWM.

On the eve of the centenary of the 1918 Armistice, we commemorate those on all sides who lost their lives in the Great War and the many conflicts that have followed it.
British composer Malcolm Archer’s moving yet contemporary setting of the Requiem text provides a calm, meditative focus for the evening.
The French composer Maurice Ravel served in a medical unit during the conflict, and dedicated each of the six movements of his suite for piano Le Tombeau de Couperin to the memory of friends killed in action.
Music by men and women from opposing sides who lived through the Great War completes the programme. We hear the music of Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger, two pioneering female composers from America and France, alongside well-known works by Rachmaninov and Elgar and rarely performed pieces from Poland and Germany.

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Season Overview

World War One Centenary Concert
Saturday 10 Nov 2018, ​7:30pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

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Christmas with the Choral
Tuesday 11 Dec 2018, ​7.30pm
Morningside Parish Church, Edinburgh

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New Year Messiah
Wednesday 2 Jan 2019, 12 noon
​Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Conductor: Michael Bawtree

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Karl Jenkins: 75 Birthday Celebrations
Sunday 3 March 3.00 pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Conductor: Sir Karl Jenkins

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Bach B Minor Mass
Saturday 18 May 2019, 7:30pm
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh

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Past Concerts

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