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Rejoice!

Academy of Ancient Music

,Milton Court Concert Hall
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Rejoice greatly in an evening of music to stir the soul and lift the spirits. Celebrate with some of baroque’s musical masters heard here at their most irrepressibly joyful and effervescent. 

Rising young soprano Rowan Pierce, an AAM favourite, joins the orchestra for two sacred cantatas. Only rediscovered in 2001, Handel’s sparkling Gloria has already established itself as one of the great coloratura cantatas, showcasing the soprano voice in a sequence of dazzling, virtuosic movements. Overflowing with jubilant energy, Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen pairs a solo soprano and trumpet in music that sets them in exuberant competition. Pierce is joined by the AAM’s principal trumpeter David Blackadder, who is also the soloist for Torello’s high-spirited Concerto in D major.

With the programme also including the thrilling Let the Bright Seraphim from Handel’s Samson and Clarke’s ever-popular Trumpet Tune, this is a concert that promises to send you home with a smile on your face and a spring in your step.

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The performance is expected to finish around 9.30pm, including a 20 minute interval.

Programme

Clarke Mr Shore's Trumpett Tune
Handel 'Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion' from Messiah, HWV56
Corelli Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6 No 7
Torello Concerto for Trumpet in D major
Handel Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Purcell 'Sound the Trumpet' from Come Ye Sons of Art
Handel 'Let the Bright Seraphim' from Samson, HWV57
Concerto grosso in G major, Op.6 No.1, HWV319
J S Bach Cantata 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen', BWV51

Performers

Academy of Ancient Music
Bojan Čičić violin
Rowan Pierce soprano
David Blackadder trumpet

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