Exultate Singers celebrate the splendours of Venice

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 31 March 2014

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 29 March 2014

Gabrieli, O Magnum Mysterium

Gabrieli, Deus, deus meus respice in me à 12

Gabrieli, Magnificat a 33

Gabrieli, Buccinate

Gabrieli, Vieni, vieni, Himeneo

Monteverdi, Beatus Vir

Monteverdi, Gloria a 7 voci

Hassler, Duo seraphim

Hassler, Cantate Domino

Exultate Singers

David Ogden, Conductor

Rutter conducts Rutter: Colston Hall's Summer Gala Concert

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 20th June

This was, by no doubt, the largest ensemble on stage at Colston Hall this season with five choirs and an orchestra that took over the stage.

***11

The divine and the worldly: Exultate Singers at St George's Bristol

David Fay, 23rd February

Choral concerts often have programmes that read like compilation CDs. I don’t mean this negatively: there are countless reasons why a greater number of contrasting pieces is required – timbral, textual, temporal, contextual, historical, and so on.

****1

Exultate Singers in Roxanna Panufnik Premières

Paul Kilbey, 19th May

Contemporary religious music can seem to exist in a different world to the rest of contemporary music, and rarely since Messiaen was in his prime has there been much evidence of it as a really progressive wing of composition.

***11

Singing the London Underground: The Exultate Singers at St George's

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 25th February

A celebration of London with a tube map as a programme. What better way to celebrate 2012 and the coming of the Olympics? From Thomas Tallis’ Spem in Alium to Lionel Bart’s ‘Who Will Buy?’ from Oliver!, the night’s performance was not short of variety. It was clear that the conductor David Ogden had put great effort into the programme, and it was certainly worthwhile.

****1

Dove and Middleton's Odyssey wins hearts in Bristol

David Karlin, 28th January

The refurbished Beacon stages a world premiere of a large choral work which imbues complete empathy for one migrant and his story.

*****

Rutter conducts Rutter: Colston Hall's Summer Gala Concert

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 20th June

This was, by no doubt, the largest ensemble on stage at Colston Hall this season with five choirs and an orchestra that took over the stage.

***11

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.