{"id":11719,"date":"2025-03-31T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:41:33","slug":"image-gallery-the-rose-and-the-thorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2025\/03\/31\/image-gallery-the-rose-and-the-thorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Gallery: ‘The Rose and the Thorns’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our upper-voices chamber choir, Minerva Voices, the Cecilian Choir, soloists and consort on what one member of the audience described as an ‘immersive’ performance on Friday.<\/p>\n

Minerva Voices<\/strong>, accompanied by pianists Hannah Tudor<\/strong> and Ida Bright<\/strong>, presented a first half of choral works from various stations around the concert-hall, in a range of music from Sarah Quartel’s meditative environmental message,\u00a0This We Know<\/em>, to the medieval\u00a0Ah, Robyn<\/em> and Russell Hepplewhite’s lyrical\u00a0Fly away over the sea<\/em>.’<\/p>\n

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The mixed-voice Cecilian Choir<\/strong> took to the stage for the second half for a dramatic realisation of Pergolesi’s powerful\u00a0Stabat Mater<\/em>, featuring final-year soloists Rachel Fung, Florence Kingdon, Leonie Carrette<\/strong> and Amanda Schott<\/strong>. Pergolesi’s setting of the poem reflecting on Christ’s crucifixion came to vivid life, with strong, confident singing from both choir and soloists alike.<\/p>\n

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Images: Karina Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n