Category Archives: choral

2018 Concert Series: Spring with Wagner, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Beethoven

26-28 October

Napier Cathedral

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Friday/Sunday – Napier Civic Choir, Soloists and HBO present: Avro Part: The Beatitudes, Morten Lauridsen: Luz Aeterna, Joseph Haydn: Mass in Time of War Paukenmesse, Hob. XXII:9.

Saturday – Soloists and HBO present: Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D Major, Op. 36.
Featured Soloist: Helene Pohl – New Zealand String Quartet.

Don’t miss this special occasion, as we complete our long-running Beethoven symphony cycle with a performance of his delightful second symphony. We are thrilled to welcome back Helene Pohl, first violinist of the New Zealand String Quartet, for Mendelssohn’s ever-popular violin concerto. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll is one of his most intimate works. Scored for chamber orchestra, it was composed as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, and provides a personal perspective on this great composer.

This contemplative programme with choir, soloists and orchestra, explores the beauty and power that music can offer in the darkest of circumstances. Morten Lauridsen composed his requiem, Lux Aeterna, in response to the death of his mother. Its five movements, each reflecting on biblical light, blend ancient, renaissance, romantic and modern music styles in a deeply moving humanism. Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Mass in the Time of War, so-named for its dramatic use of timpani, dates from a time when Europe was shrouded in conflict. Essentially of a lyrically joyful nature, it is one his most popular Mass settings, as is his Creation.

2018 Concert Series: Bach and Arvo Part Cantatas

When:

Fri 4 May 2018, 7:30pm–9:30pm 
Sun 6 May 2018, 2:30pm–4:30pm 

Where:Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning St, Napier, Hawke’s Bay / Gisborne

Restrictions:All Ages

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission: $39.00
  • General Admission – Gold Card Holders: $39.00
  • Choral & Orchestral Concert in 1 weekend – GC Holders: $68.00
  • Choral & Orchestral Concert in 1 weekend: $72.00
  • Student – Secondary and Tertiary: $10.00
  • 1 Adult accompanied by 2+ Secondary Students: $10.00

This intimate concert offers a rare chance to experience Bach’s masterful religious music, including his great Easter Cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden.

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is renowned for his gorgeously simple, yet moving music, and is now the most performed living composer in the world. On hearing his harmonic and reflective Te Deum, this popularity is entirely unsurprising. Enjoy this meditative concert with choir and orchestra.

Suitable for adults and students. Tickets available online at Ticketek* and cash or eftpos door sales.

2017 Concert Series: Handel’s Messiah

Friday 15 December at 7pm
Sunday 17 December at 2pm

Join us for our annual Christmas festivities as we once again share Handel’s enduring masterwork, Messiah. Possibly the most well known work in the choral repertoire, the drama in this oratorio ranges from intimate arias to the immensely famous and stirring Hallelujah chorus. We warmly welcome our regular patrons for whom this performance is an annual tradition – and look forward to meeting newcomers looking to make their Christmas particularly special.

Soprano: Lilia Carpinelli
Alto: Catherine Pierard
Tenor: Declan Cudd
Bass: Alex Lee

Napier Civic Choir
Hawke’s Bay Orchestra

2017 Concert Series: Haydn’s Creation

Of a performance of Handel’s Messiah, Haydn remarked that he “was struck as if he had been put back to the beginning of this studies and known nothing up until that moment”. His Creation was his response: an oratorio depicting no less than the creation of the world itself, as told in Genesis. The result of years of study and work, and immediately successful, it now stands as one of his greatest triumphs. Haydn’s Creation was the first work performed by the Napier Civic Choir under musical director José Aparicio, in 2011, and it is very special for us to be able to programme it again.
Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Browning Street, Napier
7.30pm Friday 4 August & 2.30pm Sunday 6 August
Anna Leese: soprano
Filipe Manu: tenor
Joel Amosa: bass
Hawke’s Bay Orchestra
José Aparicio: conductor

Tickets
Beattie and Forbes, Ahuriri / Wardini Books, Napier/ Take Note, Havelock North
Door Sales
Adult $39 or $75 choral plus orchestral concert, Student $15 each concert
EFTPOS available

2016 Concert Series: Handel’s Messiah

Soprano Anna Leese

Soprano Anna Leese

Artistic Director Jose Aparicio conducts Napier Civic Choir, with Hawke’s Bay Orchestra, in yet another splendid performance of Handel’s Messiah. Soloists Anna Leese – soprano; Christie Cook – alto; Frank Carter – tenor.

Handel turned to English oratorio in the 1730s in response to changes in public taste. Messiah was his sixth work in this genre. After an initially modest public reception, this oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. Its structure resembles that of opera without impersonations of characters or direct speech. We cannot think of a better way to welcome our Christmas festivities.

When:

Where: St Paul’s Church, Tennyson Street, Napier, Hawke’s Bay / Gisborne

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission Adult: $39.00
  • General Admission Student: $15.00
  • General Admission combo choral plus orchestral concert: $75.00
  • Door Sales Only

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2016 Concert Series: Brahms & Rossini

Martin Snell

Martin Snell

When:

Fri 23 Sep 2016, 7:30pm–9:30pm
Sun 25 Sep 2016, 2:30pm–4:30pm

Where:Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning St, Napier

Restrictions:All Ages

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission Adult: $39.00
  • General Admission Student: $15.00
  • General Admission combo choral plus orchestral concert: $75.00
  • Door Sales Only

Website:

Conductor Jose Aparicio; Soloists Martin Snell – bass; Lilia Carpinelli – soprano
Napier Civic Choir with Hawke’s Bay Orchestra present –
Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Brahms’ Begrabnisgesang, Op 13, Nanie Op 82 and Gesang der Parzen Op 89

After the Stabat Mater was performed complete for the first time in Paris, early 1842, the Escudiers reported that: “Rossini’s name was shouted out amid the applause, the audience left the theatre moved and seized the admiration that quickly won all Paris”. The Brahms is a combination of three of his shorter choral works. These arouse a range of feelings of solemnity, intensity, power, urgency and vitality while also performing a rich stormy tapestry. The choral pieces demonstrate beautifully the extent to which choral thing permeates Brahm’s orchestra writing.

2016 Concert Series: Mozart, Wagner, Schubert

Lisa Harper-Brown

When:

Fri 1 Jul 2016, 7:30pm–9:30pm
Sun 3 Jul 2016, 2:30pm–4:30pm

Where:Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning St, Napier

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission Adult: $39.00
  • General Admission Student: $15.00
  • General Admission combo choral plus orchestral concert: $75.00
  • Door Sales Only

Website:

Conductor Jose Aparicio. Napier Civic Choir and Hawke’s Bay Orchestra.
Soloists – Lisa Harper-Brown – soprano; Carleen Ebbs – soprano; Declan Cudd – tenor

Schubert’s Stabat Mater in G minor, D 175; Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder; Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor, K 427.

Lisa Harper-Brown performs one of Wagner’s two non-operatic works, expressing wistfulness, pathos and intensity in the romantic style. Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass, written for his wife, was a very intimate and personal work by this genius of Salzburg. Unfinished like his requiem, it possesses some of his most beautiful church music.

2016 Concert Series: Haydn, Mozart, Whitacre, Vaughan-Williams

When:

Fri 1 Apr 2016, 7:30pm–9:30pm
Sun 3 Apr 2016, 2:30pm–4:30pm

Where: Cathedral, Napier

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission Adult: $39.00
  • General Admission Student: $15.00
  • General Admission combo choral plus orchestral concert: $75.00
  • Door Sales Only

Napier Civic Choir with orchestra. Conductor Jose Aparicio
International soprano Madeleine Pierard features in Napier Civic Choir’s first 2016 concert programme which includes Haydn’s “Mass in B flat, Harmoniemesse”; Eric Whitacre’s “Five Hebrew Love Songs”; Vaughan Williams’ “In Windsor Forest”; and Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate”. Further information is available in the Choir’s annual booklet (free) available at libraries, Municipal Theatre, Napier Information Centre, Beattie and Forbes Napier and Take Note Havelock North bookshops.

Soloists: Madeleine Pierard, Sarah Court and Andrew Glover.

Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre dreamed of becoming a rich superstar, but was detoured by life-altering experiences in choir and band. This selection is a series of troubadour songs set to delicate Hebrew poems. Madeleine Pierard will take us on a virtuosic journey with Mozart’s motet and our wonderful quartet of soloists will dialogue with the choir in Haydn’s exquisite Mass.

2015 Concert Series: Elijah

ELIJAH

When:

Where:Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning St, Napier

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission Adult: $39.00
  • General Admission Student: $15.00
  • General Admission combo choral and orchestral: $75.00
  • Door Sales Only

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Napier Civic Choir presents Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”, the best example of 19th century oratorio. Soloists, choir and orchestra perform Mendelssohn’s dramatic interpretation of the resurrection of a dead youth, the bringing of rain to parched Israel, and the bodily ascension of Elijah on a fiery chariot into heaven. Soloists: Soprano Anna Leese, Mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Harris, Tenor Declan Cudd and Baritone Joel Amosa.

2015 Concert Series: Puccini Opera Excerpts

As part of its 2015 Contrast Concert Series, Napier Civic Choir presents an enthralling evening of Puccini at his best. Relish the opera excerpts including the beautiful Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly, the famous Nessun Dorma from Turandot, and arias from Tosca. Soloists are Hawke’s Bay’s own Soprano Anna Pierard with Tenor – Matthew Reardon, and Baritone – Simon Lobelson, both from Australia.

Be uplifted by Puccini’s Messa di Gloria. Remarkably he wrote this as a Master’s thesis at the age of 18 and hiding within it are hints of the power and themes of his later work. Beautiful, hopeful and operatic, this Mass is a lyrical treat for the ears and the soul!

When:

Where: Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, 28 Browning St, Napier

Ticket Information:

  • General Admission Adult: $39.00
  • General Admission Student: $15.00
  • General Admission combo choral and orchestral: $75.00
  • Buy Tickets – 0800 842 538
  • Additional fees may apply

Website:

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