Fri, 06 Dec
|Glossop Parish Church
Christmas Concert 2024
Moonlight by Candlelight: Come and hear classical masterpieces - including Beethoven's evocative Moonlight Sonata - in the beautiful setting of Old Glossop Parish Church, performed by world-class musicians.
Time and Location
06 Dec 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
Glossop Parish Church, Church St South, Glossop SK13 7RU, UK
About this event
Come and hear classical masterpieces in the beautiful setting of Old Glossop Parish Church, performed by world-class musicians. Our festival president, Viv McLean, lauded internationally for his wonderful musicianship and spectacular pianism returns to the festival to open the concert with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and also perform a selection of intimate Mazurkas and Waltzes by Chopin on a beautiful Steinway piano.
Friend of the festival, virtuoso violinist Katie Stillman - newly appointed leader of the Orchestra of Opera North - will perform works by Mozart and Gershwin.
The concert will also feature works that take their inspiration from Christmas, including selections from Liszt's Christmas Tree Suite for piano duet - Viv will be joined once again by Glossop's own acclaimed concert pianist, Benjamin Powell - and Percy Grainger's moving arrangement of 'The Sussex Mummer's Carol'.
Glossop Parish Church will be lit by candlelight and provide glorious acoustics and a hugely…
