This concert sees two of Cork‘s finest musical traditions join forces as the Choral Festival together with Cork Symphony Orchestra open the festival in style with a full-scale production of this spectacular choral symphony in its centenary year. They are joined by the Harlow Chorus and the CSO Festival Chorus, in a performance which also proudly presents soloists Nyle Wolfe (baritone) and Mary Hegarty (soprano).Cork City Hall

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For five members of the famous Regensburger Domspatzen Cathedral Boys‘ Choir, the aim to make a capella singing their lives had already developed at school: soon after leaving, they put it into practice and founded a vocal ensemble.It was a fortunate love affair that also brought a soprano into their ranks. There are no stylistic limitations to Singer Pur’s repertoire. This a capella vocal sextet present a concert drawing from their repertoire which includes “anything performable by six voices”; from medieval times to the avant-garde and a host of new compositions and arrangements written for the group, various forms of improvisation, co-operations with musicians as diverse as the Hilliard Ensemble, the composer and jazz clarinettist Michael Riessler and the electric guitar quintet Go Guitars. North Cathedral

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