Abendlied

Cantores Chamber Choir, directed by Simon Harper and accompanied by organist Warwick Cole, presents a programme of Baroque and Romantic music by Schutz, Bach, Bruckner, Brahms and Rheinberger. Organist and composer Josef Rheinberger was born in Lichtenstein but spent most of his life in Bavaria, and the central work of the programme is his sumptuous Mass for Double Choir in E flat, and the programme will conclude with his glorious six-part anthem Abendlied. The concert will open with J.S. Bach's motet 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht', based on a chorale melody, followed by three motets by Heinrich Schutz, who was regarded as the most important German composer before Bach. The programme will also feature four motets by Austrian organist and composer Anton Bruckner, and two pieces by Johannes Brahms, including his exquisite setting of words by the 16th Century poet Paul Flemming, 'Geistliches Lied'.