by Alice Stainer | 18 May 2017 | Uncategorized
In the last of this series of blogs previewing our concert in Exeter College Chapel on 20th May, we come to the big iced beauty in the midst of our table of rich German fare: Josef Rheinberger’s Mass in E Flat Op.109 (Cantus Missae), sumptuously scored for double...
by Alice Stainer | 15 May 2017 | Uncategorized
Ready for a mouthful of sweet, fluffy Mendelssohn? Verleih uns Frieden was written during a visit to Rome in 1831 – the same trip that inspired the Italian Symphony – and sets Martin Luther’s translation of the Latin prayer for peace in our time, Dona...
by Alice Stainer | 9 May 2017 | Uncategorized
Hopefully your appetite for German confectionary has been whetted by our first blog instalment for this concert and you’ve saved room for the next course: Anton Bruckner. Bruckner’s highly-wrought motets are my personal favourites amongst our mighty Teutonic cake...
