Sheringham & Cromer Choral Society

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Echoes of the Divine

Saturday 11th July 2026, 6:00pm
Binham Priory

Ticket Information:

Tickets priced at £20 (under 18’s and care-givers accompanied by a ticket holder) are on sale online at Try Booking , via members of the choir and on the door until sold out.

Note: seating is limited for this concert so early booking is recommended.

Composed between 1865 and 1868, Ein Deutsches Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem Ein Deutsches Requiem, as its title states, is set in the German language. It may well have been inspired by the recent death of Brahm’s mother. Tonight’s performance is in a version accompanied by 4 handed piano.

Written  between 1906 and 1911, Five Mystical Songs sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester with Vaughan Williams himself conducting.

Im Abendrot (At Sunset) is one of the Four Last Songs written by Richard Strauss in 1948 at the age of 84. Universally considered among the composer’s most beautiful, profound, and human works, Strauss’s Four Last Songs were among his last compositions and served as a final love letter to his wife of nearly 60 years, the soprano Pauline de Ahna.The title was provided posthumously by Strauss’s friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950.

Repertoire

Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams

Im Abendrot – Richard Strauss

Ein Deutsches Requiem – Johannes Brahms

Performers

Alexandra Bryant – soprano

Robert Gildon – baritone

Elizabeth Stacey – piano

John Stephens – piano

David Ballard – Conductor

Venue Information

Binham Priory

Warham Road
Binham
Fakenham
NR21 0DQ