Paukenmesse – Mass in Time of War, Joseph Haydn

and music by

Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Lotti, Bruckner, Michael Haydn

Saturday 21 March 2015 at 7:30pm
Christ Church, Friezland
Saddleworth  OL3 7LE

Marco Bellasi – conductor
John LeGrove – organ

Jehanne Amza – soprano, Mary Jefferis – contralto
Chris Paterson – tenor, Michael Donmall – bass

Diego Vassallo, Lisa Meschi – violins
Jonas Lindner – viola, Joseph Donmall – cello
Delia Stevens – timpani, Sofia Mahan – trumpet

Welcome to the Pennine Singers’ springtime concert.

Paukenmesse – Mass in Time of War

Haydn’s 1796 mass setting provides a dramatic reflection of troubled times in the midst of the European war.
Paukenmesse – Kettledrum Mass – refers to the timpani which provide the pulse to a desperate cry for peace in the...