Music association back in Mbombela with another instalment of spring concert
The Lowveld Chamber Music Association recently hosted a spring concert that featured a variety of vocalists and instrumentalists, who filled the Penryn Chapel with moving sounds.
Spring was in the air on Sunday September 10, at a wonderful concert by the Lowveld Chamber Music Association hosted at the Penryn Chapel.
The concert opened with Janette Rottcher dazzling her virtuoso piano skills. She was followed by the Nocoré’s dark and brooding “Spaséñiye, sodélal”. Their next item was an arrangement by Karl Jenkins of his music, first published on his debut album, Songs of Sanctuary, in 1994.
One of the highlights was the daring trio of piano, flute and clarinet, by Rottcher, Cassandra Mönnig and Isabel van Veenhuyzen.
The afternoon took a lighter tone with sultry and jazzy vocals by Lizanne Barnard, and light classical bonbons of Schubert by Julia Burger, and Mozart by Jurgens Naudé.
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The Bel Canto Girls’ Choir of Hoërskool Nelspruit was a delight to the ear, with tight harmonies and clear diction. Their rendition of Franco Prinsloo’s “Heuningkrans” was especially moving.
The concert ended with “Gabriela’s Song” by the Nocoré Ensemble.
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This was the theme song of the Oscar-winning movie As It Is in Heaven, with the overriding theme to ‘create music that will open a person’s heart’, and the concert surely did just that.
