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Our 40th season kicks off – in Liverpool!
The first concert, Hail Gladdening Light, in the Manchester Chorale’s 40th season was held in Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral. The very appreciative audience didn’t quite fill (!) the 2300 capacity, but what do you expect when Liverpool are playing at home. The lay clerk David, who greeted us and opened the right doors for us, said we sang an excellent concert. He knew the best place to listen to us – the reverberation was enormous and went on for seconds after our last notes. And what a fantastic cathedral. The luminosity created by the stained-glass windows had a marked similarity to a certain Barcelona church (that still isn't finished).
Here’s the programme:
Ola Gjeilo Prelude
Tomás Luis de Victoria O Vos Omnes
Sergei Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo
Michael Fairbairn I Will Come to You
Anton Bruckner Os Justi
Moses Hogan We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace
Alonso Lobo Versa Est in Luctum
Stephen Paulus The Road Home
Jake Runestad Let My Love Be Heard
Kate Rusby Underneath the Stars
Charles Wood Hail, Gladdening Light
And here's a stamp from the same year The Manchester Chorale was formed:
Royal mail stamp featuring Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral from 1969
