Mayfield Festival Choir and the Ripieno Players directed by Jeremy Summerly
This is the first of two concerts that Mayfield Festival Choir will give during the 2024 Mayfield Festival of Music and the Arts. The programme also includes Gounod’s Petite Symphonie.
Charles Gounod’s delightful nonet (‘Little Symphony’) went down a storm at its first performance in Paris in 1885, mainly because it’s pretty and lovely to listen to.
Bruckner’s Mass in E minor is altogether bigger and more austere, and had to wait three years after the date of its composition before it was premièred in 1869. It was first performed outdoors, because the building for which it was written still hadn’t been finished. Mayfield is fortunate in having a church that was completed some years ago…
Why not make an evening of it in Mayfield?
Mayfield has several excellent pubs and restaurants providing pre-concert food and post-concert drinks.
The Middle House (High Street) Serves food all day on both Saturdays (until 20:45) and on Sundays (until 19:30). www.themiddlehousemayfield.co.uk 01435 872146
Rose & Crown (at the bottom of Fletching Street)Serves food on Sundays until 4 pm www.roseandcrownmayfield.co.uk 01435 872200