Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra: Messa di Gloria

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra’s spring concert includes Pietro Mascgani’s dramatic and intensely beautiful Messa di Gloria. Acclaimed throughout the world for his brilliant Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni wrote the mass at the same time as his famous one-act opera, with which it shares a similar musical language. The first half of the concert features three lesser-known works by Giacomo Puccini, the brief Requiem, written to commemorate the death of Giuseppe Verdi, and two works originally written for string quartet, but later arranged for larger forces, the Three Minuets, and Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums). Ravel’s beautiful L’Aurore, for orchestra and chorus, complete the programme.