Tours de Force: Choir and Organ Masterpieces

Pieces by Widor, Vierne, Saint-Saëns and Boulanger

Conductor:

Neil Taylor

Organ:

Graham Eccles

This concert is for choral and organ music lovers alike! The 19th century saw a great revival in French organ music, at the forefront of which were Charles-Marie Widor and his pupil Louis Vierne. In addition to their grandiose symphonies and virtuosic organ solos, they also composed masses and sacred motets for choir and organ, illustrating the limitless range of sounds the organ is capable of creating, from loud and brash to mysterious and ethereal.

This concert brings together two great organ masses – Widor’s majestic Mass for double choir, and Vierne’s Messe Solennelle – alongside well-known solo organ works and sacred motets from another great French organist, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Lili Boulanger, a pupil of Vierne who died tragically young at the age of 24.

Tickets: £16, £10 students/children, group discounts

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