Colchester Chamber Choir Concert

Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.colchesterchamberchoir.org/concerts

Darkness and Light brings music to St Peter’s from the time of the Sun King, Louis XIV: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s popular and festive Messe de Minuit contrasted with one of his three great messes des morts, and Michel-Richard de Lalande’s magnificent De Profundis.

Lalande isn’t so well known today despite being Louis XIV’s favourite composer and hugely popular at the time. 2026 will be the 300th anniversary of Lalande’s death and this performance will be our contribution to the celebration.

The choir will be joined by a professional period orchestra and soloists. This will be our second concert in Coggeshall in recent years of music from this glittering age, when all the arts were brought together to glorify not only God, but his representative on earth – the absolute monarch Louis.