75th ANNIVERSARY SEASON - A BRITISH CHORAL CELEBRATION: Stanford: Mass in G & Rutter: Magnificat
7:30pm, Sat, 7 Nov 2026
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Type of event: Performance Start time: 7:30pm Venue: All Saints Church
Wiltshire Road
Wokingham
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Stanford: Mass in G & Rutter: Magnificat
We will kick off our 75th Anniversary season with these 2 magnificent works that demonstrate the richness and variety of British choral music.
In 1892, Stanford completed his Mass in G Major , one of the most substantial Latin choral works Britain produced in the Nineteenth Century. In 2014, it received its world première recording, featuring the Choir of Exeter College Oxford directed by George de Voil, now Musical Director of Wokingham Choral Society.
WCS will give what is believed to be only the second ever concert performance with orchestra of this opulent Mass. From a new meticulously prepared edition by George de Voil and James Speakman, the vivid colours of this tuneful and characterful masterpiece will come to life, showing such diverse influences as Schubert, Dvorak, Bruckner and Beethoven.
John Rutter composed his extended setting of the Magnificat in 1990. With its colourful style and Latin American influences, it is a joyful piece in 7 movements which weaves the 15th-century English poem 'Of a Rose, a lovely Rose' around the traditional liturgical text of the Magnificat.
