FRENCH Baroque music, including the instantly recognisable piece used at the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest, is on the programme at Hutton Kirk on Sunday, June 8, for the next concert of the Paxton based Merse Singers.
The evening is being sponsored by the French Institute in Edinburgh and includes the first Scottish performance of a piece by Michel Corrette, an eighteenth century composer.
The piece was written in homage to the famous Italian composer Vivald
i and is an adaptation of the well-known Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Corrette has added woodwind instruments and voice to Vivaldi's string orchestra and it is a setting of psalm 148, describing the praise of God through nature's mountains, rivers and animals.
The other choral piece in the programme is by another French composer, Charpentier and is a spectacular setting of the Te deum which includes the music used in the opening titles of the Eurovision Song Concert.
A three day course of instruction on the music precedes the concert, led by Frances Cooper and Roderick Bryce. Anyone is welcome to join the singers for the course and details can be obtained from Mike Lowry on (01289) 386798 or John Ward on (01890) 817186. They can also provide details about tickets for the concert (£10).
The orchestra for the concert includes members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and other specialist performers on instruments dating from the 18th century who are making performing at this event a regular date in their June calendar.
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