Swansea Bach Coir - From Vatican to Village

Swansea Bach Coir are performing at Swansea Minster on Saturday 14 November, with the concert starting at 18:00. The evening is titled From Vatican to Village, and it's organised by the Minster itself, so it's a local production right in the heart of the city.

The programme centres on the music of G.F. Handel, with local performers taking on two of his choral works: Dixit Dominus and the Chandos Anthems. Dixit Dominus is one of Handel's early, large-scale settings of the Psalm, written while he was still in Italy, and the Chandos Anthems are the set of anthems he composed for James Brydges, the 1st Duke of Chandos, during his time in England. The title From Vatican to Village points to that shift in Handel's career, from the grand, continental style of his early years to the more English, church-focused music he wrote later.

It's a local choir on the bill, so the voices you'll hear are from right here in the city. The Minster is at 11A Saint Mary's Square, and the concert runs from 18:00 on the Saturday, which makes it an easy one to fit in before your evening gets going. Tickets go from free up to £22.38, and you get them through Eventbrite.