Dolce Singers Tour to Chester Cathedral
Sat 17 May
|Chester
Dolce Singers tour to Chester Cathedral and join with Chester Music Society Choir to perform Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle. Heather Buckmaster soprano | Joyce Tindsley mezzo-soprano | Elgan LLyr Thomas tenor | Armand Rabot bass | Graham Eccles Piano | Jon Barton harmonium
Time & Location
17 May 2025, 19:30 – 21:30
Chester, St Werburgh St, Chester CH1 2DY, UK
About the event
Saturday 17 May 2025, 7.30pm
Chester Cathedral
Heather Buckmaster soprano | Joyce Tindsley mezzo-soprano | Elgan LLyr Thomas tenor | Armand Rabot bass | Chester Music Society Choir | Dolce Singers | Graham Eccles Piano | Jon Barton harmonium | Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
The Petite messe Solennelle is structured in several extended movements in the tradition of the missa solemnis, but the composer labelled it petite with a grain of irony. He wrote on the last page of the autograph manuscript:
Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass. Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. Not much technique, a little bit of heart, that's all. Blessings to you and grant me Paradise.