Septura

Programme:
Schütz - Das Wort ward Fleisch
JS Bach - Christmas Suite
Praetorius - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Brahms - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Handel - Messiah Highlights
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite

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‘Festive Favourites’, including Silent Night, Deck the Hall, The Three Kings.

Brass instruments are part of the musical fabric of Christmas, and in this concert, Septura’s spotlight focuses on the highlights – some familiar, some not – of the rich and varied Christmas canon.

The seasonal celebration of Christmas – with its broad themes of renewal, God made flesh, and the saviour of all mankind – has been the inspiration for so many great musical masterpieces through the centuries.

Septura explore some of the most enduring, in a wide-ranging programme spanning five centuries of music, including Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Messiah, and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. Where years of repetition have dulled the impact of these wonderful works Septura illuminate them afresh, casting them in a brand new light through the unique and uplifting sound of the brass septet.