Event overview
To celebrate the launch of a new publication by Oxford University Press, the Chamber Choir, conducted by Caroline Lenton-Ward, will perform a selection from the new book (copies of which will be available to buy).
With music by
Berezovsky
Tchaikovsky
Rakhmaninov
Schnittke
Prokofiev
The Choir performance is free and open to all.
"Russian Sacred Music for Choirs" presents the wonderful repertoire of Russian sacred choral music for unaccompanied mixed voices and covers a wide-ranging repertoire spanning the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Suitable for performance in concert or during Church services (liturgical descriptions included) and introduces composers who are central to musical developments yet little known outside Russia.
This collection of 27 Russian sacred choral works was compiled and edited by Russian music scholar and choral director Nöelle Mann, who was curator of the Prokofiev Archive at the Centre for Russian Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, until her death in 2010.
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Noëlle Mann was born in 1946 in south-west France and died in London in 2010. Having trained first as a concert pianist, Noëlle moved to the UK and read music at Goldsmiths College (University of London), during which she began researching the znamenny chant of the Russian Orthodox Church. Noëlle’s interest in the Russian choral tradition led her in 1993 to establish the Kalina Choir, the first UK choir exclusively dedicated to performing Russian choral music. Through this and subsequent choral directing, Noëlle developed her research and performance practice of this music. As a musicologist, Noëlle’s interests embraced both Russian choral music and the life and work of Serge Prokofiev. Noëlle became the Founding Curator of the Prokofiev Archive in 1994 and established the academic Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths College in 1997. In 2001, Noëlle founded and became Editor of Three Oranges, an academic journal dedicated to the study of the life and times of Prokofiev. She is the editor of Russian Sacred Music for Choirs. Oxford Sheet Music is distributed in the USA by Peters Edition.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 18 Nov 2013 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
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