Thaxted Music Festival 2008
Thaxted Church , Thaxted,
Essex CM6 2PE
7:30pm, Sunday 13 July 2008
Hertfordshire Chorus
Aurelian Symphony Orchestra
William Berger baritone
David Temple conductor
Holst:
The Hymn of Jesus
Vaughan Williams:
Toward the Unknown Region
Walton:
Belshazzar’s Feast
Thaxted is one of the most beautiful small towns in East Anglia. It is dominated by the exceptionally fine 600-year old Church and the Guildhall. The Church, with its fine acoustic and light and spacious interior, provides a wonderful setting for the Festival.
The programme is highly appropriate for this venue. Holst and Vaughan Williams were close friends, and Vaughan Williams wrote at least one major work for Holst’s Whitsuntide Singers in Thaxted Church. Both will often have played the Lincoln organ in the North Transept.
Hertfordshire Chorus closes this year's Festival with one of the most exciting choral works ever written – Walton’s dramatic masterpiece charting the downfall of King Belshazzar.
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