Stour Festival Orchestra & Choir
Mendelssohn and the Bachs
With Eleonore Cockerham (soprano), Ellie Stamp (mezzo-soprano), George Clark (baritone), Robert Hollingworth (conductor)

Stour Music
Sun, 29 June 2025
All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph
3:00pm
£25-40 (with concessions)
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It’s hard to realise just how popular and influential Mendelssohn’s music was in 19th-century England - but how little of it is now performed. The dramatic choral cantata ‘When Israel came out of Egypt’ is rarely heard but a tour de force as descriptive as the Hebrides Overture. Magnificat, though, reminds us of his debt to generations of Bachs as he grew up in Berlin, so we also offer well-known tunes in arrangements by Johann Christoph and Johann Michael Bach. Mendelssohn’s own influence can be heard in the music of S.S.Wesley, a guilty pleasure of mine since the age of nine. The full orchestrated version of one of his greatest anthems is a feast!
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Location
All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph
BOUGHTON ALUPH CHURCH, Church Lane, Boughton Aluph, TN25 4EU
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