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Concert Three: DEVOTION

Bruckner - Mass in E Minor
Honegger - King David

Saturday 27 September, 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell

Featuring:

Narrator - Raymond Hawthorne
Instrumental Ensemble
Conductor - To be announced

Composed in 1866, Bruckner's Mass in E Minor for choir and wind instruments is a fascinating work. It is the composer's only work to quote directly from another composer, and that from the most celebrated master of church mosic, Palestrina. By contrast Honegger's King David was devised as theatre music for a play, and in that version it shot the young composer to fame. He later reworked the music as an oratorio with narrator. Both works demonstrate the devout beliefs of the composers.

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