Classical programme, Spring term 2012
Brandenburg Choral Festival (Chamber Choir)
Morten Lauridsen - Nocturnes (2005)
Sir Hubert Parry - 'Never, Weather-beaten Sail' from 'Songs of Farewell'(1914 A Cappella motet)
Completed a short while before his death in the great Flu epidemic of 1918
Thomas Weelkes - Thule, The Period of Cosmography
Trad arr. Timothy Salter - Blow the Wind Southerly: Cold Blows the Wind
Campion - Never, Weather-beaten Sail
Bob Chilcott - Weather Report
Cecilia McDowall - Shipping Forecast (London Premier)
Classical Concert
Oratorio Choir
Gabriel Jackson - Hymn to St Petroc of Cornwall - New Commission (World Premiere)
Sir Hubert Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
Ireland - Greater Love Hath No Man
Brahms - How Lovely are thy Dwelling
Schubert - Psalm 23 (ladies voices only)
Vasks - Dona Nobis Pacem.
Chamber Choir
Laaus - Adoramus te Christe, Ave verum Corpus, Timor et tremor
Palestrina - Exsultate De, Tu es Petrus
Jonathan Dove - Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars.
Cornwall Concerts (Oratorio Choir)
Gabriel Jackson - Hymn to St Petroc of Cornwall - New Commission
Sir Hubert Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
Peteris Vasks - Dona Nobis Pacem
Bob Chilcott - Aesop's Fables
with Lauridsen, Salter
Classical programme, Winter term 2011
Classical Concert
Oratorio Choir included:
Vivaldi - Gloria
Haydn - Little Organ Mass
Handel - Coronation Anthem: Let Thy Hand be Strengthened
Cecilia McDowall - Ave Maris Stella
Chamber Choir includes:
Cecilia McDowall - I Have Done What is Mine to Do & 'Deus Portus Pacis'
Pawel Lukaszewski - Ave Maria
Classical programme, Summer term 2011
The programme included:
Shipley Festival - Chamber Choir only.
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Howard Skempton
Concerto for Violin & Oboe - J S Bach
We Who with Songs - Howard Skempton
Little Organ Mass - Haydn
Classical Concert
Oratorio Choir
Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle
Rossini was lucky enough to be able to retire before the age of 40, but despite his wealth and fame, he could not quite manage to stay away from his manuscript paper. The 'Petite Messe....' belongs to what the composer called 'the sins of his old age' and is a joyful affirmation of the composers faith, but also demonstrates that sacred music need need not always be terribly serious. Rossini manages to inject the same wit and sparkle into his setting of the Mass as he did in his operatic scores, helped by the unusual accompaniment given to the piano and harmonium. An uplifting piece for both performers and audience.
Chamber Choir
Morten Lauridsen - Nocturnes
Written as recently as 2005, this piece shows the wide-range of Lauridsen's literary tastes, setting texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, James Agee and a devastatingly beautiful love sonnet by Pablo Neruda. The composer spins out his characteristic long melodic lines and manages to create a timeless music that feels as if it was meant to live alongside the poems he chose to set.
Over the past few years his music has achieved almost iconic status in the USA and is quickly becoming equally as popular here in Europe.
Classical programme, Spring term 2011
The programme included:
Grainger Festival - 'The Harmonious Songsmith'
A journey through Grainger's wonderful song and choral repertoire including :'Brigg Fair', 'There was a Pig', 'Shallow Brown', 'Australian Up-Country Song', 'Early one-morning', 'Lost Lady Found'.
The Brandenburg Choral Festival
Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine
Howard Skempton - He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven
John Rutter - The Lord is my Shepherd
L Berkeley - The Lord is my Shepherd
Palestrina - Lamentations
James Macmillan - Jubuilate Deo (London Premiere)
Edwin Roxburgh - Lament (World Premiere)
G Gabrieli - Jubilate Deo
Addison Classical Spring Concert
Joseph Haydn - 'The Creation'
(Programme is subject to change, depending on availability of scores)
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