SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 3PM Central Methodist Church, Todmorden ENTRY BY DONATION
This afternoon concert lasting a little under an hour will present a warming winter feast of choral music. It will include music by the great English Baroque composer Henry Purcell alongside his older German contemporary Heinrich Schütz. The programme will also include works by several contemporary composers such as the now legendary Estonian Arvo Pärt, as well as the American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Other living composers featured in the programme will be Sally Beamish and the popular Norwegian-born Ola Gjeilo. Finally, this concert will include works that represent the real pinnacle of choral music from the Romantic period of Classical music: motets by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.
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SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 5.30-7.30PM HEPTONSTALL CHURCH £10/£8/£1 (18 & under)
This year’s Hepton Singers winter concert will span nine centuries, from the hauntingly beautiful melodic chants by the twelfth-century Benedictine abbess and visionary Hildegard of Bingen, through to Caroline Shaw, a composer right at the vanguard of contemporary writing for the human voice.
Besides Caroline Shaw, other contemporary composers featured include Kerry Andrew, Sally Beamish, Ola Gjeilo, and the great Estonian composer Arvo Pärt who celebrated his 90th birthday during 2025.
From centuries past, the programme will include music by the great early Baroque German composer Heinrich Schütz, the intense harmonic writing of English composer Henry Purcell as well as the lush, multi-voice polyphony of the sixteenth-century Venetian Giovanni Gabrieli.
Also represented is the apotheosis of Romantic choral music in the form of the motets by the Austrian symphonist Anton Bruckner. Finally, the programme will include one of the most unusual yet awe-inspiring choral works to have been written in recent years, Stars by Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds.
Tickets £10/£8/£1 (18 and under): ticketsource.co.uk/heptonsingers
