Stour Festival Orchestra & Choir Eleonore Cockerham soprano Ellie Stamp mezzo-soprano George Clark baritone Robert Hollingworth conductor Johann Michael Bach Halt, was du hast & Unser Leben waehret siebenzig Jahre J.C./J.S.Bach Ich lasse dich nicht Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture & Magnificat in D S.S Wesley Ascribe unto the Lord Mendelssohn Psalm 114 Da Israel aus Aegypten zog Its hard to realise just how popular and influential Mendelssohns music was in 19th-century England - but how little of it is now performed. The dramatic choral cantata When Israel came out of Egypt is rarely heard but a tour de force as descriptive as the Hebrides Overture. Magnificat, though, reminds us of his debt to generations of Bachs as he grew up in Berlin, so we also offer well-known tunes in arrangements by Johann Christoph and Johann Michael Bach. Mendelssohns own influence can be heard in the music of S.S.Wesley, a guilty pleasure of mine since the age of nine. The full orchestrated version of one of his greatest anthems is a feast! Sponsored by Lady Wilkinson