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February 2019
W A Mozart – Requiem
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed…
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G F Handel – Messiah
George Frideric Handel (born: Georg Friedrich Händel) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle-upon-Saale and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the…
Find out more »May 2019
Last Night of the Proms – Charity concert
Charity concert for the benefit of Lifeline with an eclectic mixture of music in the vein of the London Last Night of the Proms concerts – complete with Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ and Elgar’s ‘ Land of Hope and Glory’. Sure to put a smile on your face. Conducted by Richard Cock.
Find out more »Last Night of the Proms – Charity concert
Charity concert for the benefit of Lifeline with an eclectic mixture of music in the vein of the London Last Night of the Proms concerts – complete with Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ and Elgar’s ‘ Land of Hope and Glory’. Sure to put a smile on your face. Conducted by Richard Cock.
Find out more »June 2019
J Rutter – Feel the Spirit & A Vivaldi – Gloria
John Rutter was born in London 24 September 1945. Rutter grew up living over the Globe pub on London's Marylebone Road. He was educated at Highgate School where fellow pupils included John Tavener, Howard Shelley, Brian Chapple and Nicholas Snowman, and as a chorister there took part in the first (1963) recording of Britten's War Requiem under the composer's baton. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir. While still an undergraduate he…
Find out more »October 2019
J Brahms – A German Requiem
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow. Brahms composed for…
Find out more »December 2019
Christmas With Richard Cock
The traditional family Christmas concert with Richard Cock and the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg without which it really isn’t Christmas in Johannesburg. Young and old will be joined in singing some of the wonderful carols we all know and love. The choir will of course entertain you with other Christmas music both new and old. The proper way to start Christmas. * Special ticket price for Christmas Concerts R230 * Seniors, students & scholars R185 Conducted by Richard Cock.
Find out more »Christmas With Richard Cock
The traditional family Christmas concert with Richard Cock and the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg without which it really isn’t Christmas in Johannesburg. Young and old will be joined in singing some of the wonderful carols we all know and love. The choir will of course entertain you with other Christmas music both new and old. The proper way to start Christmas. * Special ticket price for Christmas Concerts R230 * Seniors, students & scholars R185 Conducted by Richard Cock.
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L van Beethoven – 9th Symphony (the Choral Symphony)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential musicians of this period, and is considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time. There is no authentic record of the date of his birth; however, as children of that era were traditionally baptised the day…
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