'Joyous' new concert coming up from Harrogate's experienced Vocalis singers

Vocalis’s performance of Joseph Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai will take place on Saturday, October 17 at 7pm at the Wesley Centre.

Directed by James Savage-Hanford, this experienced choir will be welcoming back the Dales Ensemble and pianist Tim Harper for the concert which is just the tip of the iceberg of a exciting programme of music for its new season.

First established in 1974 as the Harrogate Chamber Singers, originating from an evening class at Harrogate College, Vocalis performs a wide variety of music, sacred and secular, from the 15th century to the present day in both a cappella and accompanied pieces.

For its autumn concert, Vocalis’s direcotor has chosen a varied programme of music spanning the Classical musical period of Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven to the Romantic music of Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann.

The Missa Sancti Nicolai scored for SATB soloists and choir will be accompanied by strings and piano.

Vocalis will also sing unaccompanied motets and partsongs by Brahms Geistliches lied, Bruckner Christus Factus Est, Locus Iste and Os Justi and Clara Schumann Abendfeier and Gondoliera

To complete the programme, the Dales Ensemble string quartet will play Sonatas II, V and VI from The Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn, and Tim Harper will perform the Largo-Allegro from Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor by Beethoven.

Vocalis is currently recruiting altos and tenors via Christine via [email protected]

Information: www.harrogatevocalis.org.uk