Our next concert

Sunday 24 March 2024 – 7.30pm
St John`s Church Buxton

Picture of Hungarian composer Zoltan
Kodály

Music from Central Europe

Dvořák            Stabat Mater
Kodály Psalmus Hungaricus

Soloists:

CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY
Leader: Steven Wilkie

MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
SAM HAYES – conductor

For our Spring concert, we look to the distinctive musical styles of countries in central Europe. Antonín Dvořák is ever popular for his use of Moravian and Bohemian folk music and rhythms, particularly in his symphonies. In this concert we perform his most popular sacred work – the Stabat Mater. Its composition was prompted by the deaths in infancy of his first three children and it sets the 20 verses of a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary that portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ’s mother during his crucifixion.

The other half of this concert features a work by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály. His Psalmus Hungaricus was composed one hundred years ago to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of Buda, Pest and Óbuda to form the modern Hungarian capital city. The work, for chorus, orchestra and tenor soloist was last performed by the Society in 1986.

Programme cover from Buxton Musical Society’s 1986 performance of Dvořák Stabat Mater

Tickets: £15.00 available from:

Buxton Opera House Box Office: 0845 127 2190 or 01298 72190 or book online: buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

Tickets are also available from Society members and on the door before each concert in St John’s Church (limited availability)