On Saturday November 25th, the 70 strong Marches Choir of Bishop’s Castle, joining with Cantorion Aberteifi from Cardigan, West Wales, present an evening of music from Haydn, Mozart and Pergolesi. The choir will again be joined by the Marches Sinfonia, with leader David Gregory. 

The featured work is Joseph Haydn's 'Imperial Nelson Mass' of 1805, which is brimming with the unmistakable imprints of Haydn's delightfully melodic charm and harmonic beauty. The choir will also present Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful ‘Laudate Dominum’ featuring soprano soloist Hannah Davey, who will make her third appearance at Bishops Castle.

Two works by Giovanni Pergolesi, an Italian Baroque composer, will complete the programme – ‘Magnificat’, a superb, festal setting, and his lively, engaging ‘Flute Concerto in G’.  Both are from a composer of modest, yet significant output - he died at only 26! The flute soloist is Christopher Lacey, a local professional musician, well known in the area.

Musical Director Alistair Auld says “this concert is full of uplifting melodic charm and often charged with a surge of energy that is characteristic of these three 18th Century composers, whose lives span the Baroque and Classical eras of music.”