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Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Guildhall Square
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2BJ
Opening Times
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Prices
Tickets £20 in advance, £22 on the door Students and U16s £5
About us
Plymouth Philharmonic Choir invite you to join them, together with four first class soloists and orchestra, on Sunday 26 March at 7.30pm in The Guildhall when they perform the profoundly moving work, Dvořák's Stabat Mater.
Stabat Mater, a 13th century poem attributed to Jacopone da Todi, reflects on what Mary, the mother of Jesus, might have felt watching her son die on the cross. Dvořák's work was composed after a period of unimaginable personal tragedy when, in the space of two years, three of his children died. Dvořák's musical influences include Wagner, Brahms and Italian Opera and they are evident in this work which depicts every mood imaginable from grief through to hope and peace.
Edward Elgar, playing first violin in an 1884 performance conducted by Dvořák, wrote to a friend saying, "I wish you could hear Dvorak's music. It is simply ravishing. So tuneful and clever, and the orchestration is wonderful…. I cannot describe it: it must be heard." There can be few better recommendations!
Further information, together with ticket prices and availability, can be found on the choir's website (plymouthphilchoir.org).
