Schwabinger Kantorei Munchen

Great Witley Church

Conductor.. Candida Kirchhoff
Organist: Francesca Massey
Organ Scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor
2002

Mozart: Ave Verum Handel: Zadok the Priest
JS Bach: Prelude & Fugue in E flat (St Anne)
also well-known works by
Brahms, Bruckner, Mendelssohn and others

Schwabinger Kantorei München was founded in 1955 and is based in, and supported by, one of the major Protestant churches in Munich, the Erlöserkirche. The choir of 50 members comes from all parts of Munich and is well-known for its concerts. Recent highlights have been performances in Paris and Amsterdam, and on radio and TV. This visit to Worcestershire, hosted by the ESO Choir, is part of an international choir exchange.

As well as the concert at Great Witley in 2002, the choir is gave performances in Hereford and Coventry Cathedrals with Francesca Massey.

© www.greatwitleychurch.org.uk
Britain's finest Baroque Church. St. Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley, A443 Worcester - Tenbury Wells road, 10 miles north-west of Worcester. As the parish church for the villages of Great Witley and Little Witley it is used regularly for services and concerts. The church is open to visitors daily. The church, now almost fully restored, displays a splendour which is unique amongst country churches in Britain, with exquisite gilded decorations throughout, numerous paintings by Antonio Bellucci, ten painted glass windows depicting scenes from the New Testament, highly decorative carving and a large monument by Rysbrack. It also has a fine organ, its case being from the instrument on which Handel played. Many musicians consider its acoustics for music to be as fine as any building of its size outside London