St Nicholas' Parish Church
Harpenden, Herts AL5 2TP
Britten: St Nicholas
Vivaldi: Gloria
Holst: A Christmas Day
Lea Singers
Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Nicholas Hurndall Smith (tenor)
Laura Mitchell (soprano)
Miranda Westcott (mezzo-soprano)
with the Lawes Chamber Players led by Miles Golding
Tickets £16 (£14 concs, £6 under-16s) including refreshments
Telephone 01582 761246
Britten’s St Nicolas performed in St Nicholas Church on St Nicholas Day with a soloist called Nicholas: a feast of Nicholas. For this year’s concert on 6 December the Lea Singers are joining forces with a fantastic range of professional musicians living locally to perform music by Britten, Vivaldi and Holst.
The centre-piece will be Britten’s cantata, which dramatically brings to life legendary incidents in the life of Nicolas, the patron Saint of children, seamen and travellers. Nicholas Hurndall-Smith, known to Lea Singers’ audiences from his stirring performance as the Evangelist in the St John Passion in March, will sing the part of the adult Nicolas. The piece will also feature (pickled) boys from St Nicholas’ Church choir. The other works in the concert are Vivaldi’s Gloria, with soloists Laura Mitchell (soprano) and Miranda Westcott (mezzo-soprano), and Holst’s A Christmas Day, which includes a medley of well-known Christmas tunes.
The choir is delighted to welcome Robert Hollingworth to direct this concert. Robert is founder and director of the ground-breaking early music group I Fagiolini, as well as guest director with the BBC Singers and Netherlands Chamber Choir.
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