
Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra: Messa di Gloria
April 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
All Saints’ Church
Church Way
Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra’s spring concert includes Pietro Mascagni’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 Minuet No. 1, and Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums). The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, and Ravel’s beautiful L’Aurore, for orchestra and chorus, complete the programme.