CONCERT: BLISS

The Perth Undergraduate Choral Society Inc. presents:

BLISS

A Choral Journey from the Clasical to the Romantic Era.

Conductor: Sarah Penn

Organist: Dominic Perisnotti

Accompanist: Alistair Smith

Tickets $15/$10 call 9389 6469, email [email protected] or at the door

Program:

Laudate Dominum - W.A. Mozart (1780) from Vespers

Ave Verum - W.A. Mozart (1791)

Ave Maria - Franz Schubert (1825)

Ave Maria - Felix Mendelssohn (1830)

Lift Thine Eyes - Felix Mendelssohn (1845) from Elijah

Cantique de Jean Rancine - Gabrielle Faure (1865)

Missa Choralis - Franz Liszt (1865)

PUCS is presenting some of the finest choral pieces from the classical and romantic eras. We are especially pleased to be delivering a rare performance of the Missa Choralis by Franz Liszt.

In presenting works by the two great child prodigies of their eras, Mozart and Liszt it is a little known fact that both the Mozart Vespers and the Missa Choralis by Liszt were also much-favoured works of the composers. After a stella performing career as one of the great pianists, Liszt wrote the Missa Choralis in Rome where he had become intensly religious. It is said he wrote the Missa Choralis - heavily influenced by Palestrina's plainchant themes - in order to "restore mystical depths to church music and rescue it from the 'operatic style into which it had degenerated'" - Humphrey Smith