As part of Canterbury Music Club's 83rd Concert Season!
Alexander Rider, harp and
The Festive Chorale, director Grenville Hancox
Programme
“Harp music and accompanying words in a programme chosen to evoke the grandeur of the plains of central Asia from thence the journey of the Magi, and angelic voices in a star-littered sky”
Music for solo harp
Fantaisie op. 95 – C. Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Au seuil du Temple (At the Threshold of the Temple)
from Images Suite No. 1 – Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Danse Orientale – A. Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Bamyan – P. Hersant (b.1949)
Variations pastorales sur un vieux noël – Marcel Samuel Rousseau (1882-1955)
Interval
Flight of the angel (behind the mask) – Lauren Scott (b.1971)
Music for chorale and harp
A Ceremony of Carols – Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)