Recent Concerts

Choral Masterpieces from Venice

9th March 2013

Beatus vir Monteverdi
   
Messa Concertata  Cavalli
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus and Benedictus
Agnus Dei
 
   
 Interval  
   
Gloria Vivaldi
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Et in terra pax hominibus
Laudamus te
Gratias agimus tibi Domine Deus, Rex coelestis
Domine Fili unigenite
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
Quoniam tu solus sanctus
Cum Sancto Spiritu
 

Christmas at Blackmore

18th December 2012

Gaudete! arr. Ben Parry
O Magnum Mysterium Tomás Luis de Victoria
   
Of the Father’s love begotten arr. David Willcocks
   
A little child there is yborn Malcolm Archer
Infant holy arr. David Willcocks
Here is the little door Herbert Howells
Magnificat (Collegium Regale) Herbert Howells
   
O little town of Bethlehem arr. R. Vaughan Williams
   
The linden tree carol arr. Reginald Jacques
The holly and the ivy Matthew Owens
Christmas Day Gustav Holst
   
Interval  
   
It came upon the midnight clear     adapted Arthur Sullivan
   
Nativity carol John Rutter
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming arr. David Blackwell
My Lord has Come Will Todd
Sussex  Carol arr. Bob Chilcott
   
Reading  
Eddi’s Service Rudyard Kipling
   
In the bleak midwinter Harold Darke
What child is this? Thomas Hewitt Jones
   
Hark! the herald angels sing Felix Mendelssohn

Note-able Anniversaries

27th October 2012

Laudate Dominum  Sweelinck
Dixit Maria  Hassler
   
Edinburgh Mass Jackson
Kyrie and Gloria  
   
Organ solo:  
 Trio Sonata No. 4 in E minor BWV 528  J.S. Bach
   1st movement  
   
Jubilate Deo G. Gabrieli
   
Edinburgh Mass Jackson
Sanctus and Agnus Dei  
   
Inviolata Willaert
   
Interval  
   
Kyrie G. Gabrieli
Komm, Jesu, komm J.S. Bach
Great love hath no man Ireland
   
Organ solo  
 Chorale Prelude: In Dir ist Freude BWV 615 J.S. Bach
   
Trois chansons de Charles d'Orleans Debussy
   Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!  
   Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin  
   Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain  
   
O Peaceful Night E. German

 

William Byrd Anniversary Concert

3rd July 2012

Gaudeamus omnes in Domino Byrd
   
Mass for Five Voices Byrd
  Kyrie and Gloria  
   
Ad te levavi White
O Lord, the maker of all thing Mundy
Ave Maria Parsons
   
Organ solo  
Pavan 'The Earle of Salisbury' and Galliard  Byrd
   
Mass for Five Voices Byrd
  Sanctus and Benedictus  
  Agnus Dei  
   
Laudate Dominum Byrd
   
Interval  
   
Pastyme with good companye Henry VIII
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth Byrd
All creatures now Bennet
   
Reading  
from 'The Streets of Pompeii' Henry Reed
   
O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mea Monteverdi
Lieto godea Gabrieli
Scaldava il sol Marenzio
Bella Angioletta Gesualdo
   
Mátra Pictures Kodály

 

 

 

Touches of Sweet Harmony

21st April 2012

Michael Frith - accompanist

Phil Toms - double bass

Choruses from The Fairy Queen Henry Purcell
   Hail! great parent  
   May the God of Wit inspire  
   Now join your warbling voices all  
   Hush! no more!  
   I press her hand gently  
   A thousand, thousand ways  
  They shall be as happy  
   
from Five Elizabethan Lyrics C. Armstrong Gibbs
  Fidele  
  Matin Song  
  A Lover's Song  
   
Sonnet: How can my Muse want subject to invent Shakespeare
   
Three Shakespeare Settings (First performance) Christopher Tinker
  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  
  Sigh no more, ladies  
  I know a bank  
   
Sonnet: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Shakespeare
   
Three Shakespeare Songs R. Vaughan Williams
  Full Fathom Five  
  The Cloud-Capp'd Towers  
  Over Hill, Over Dale  
   
Full Fathom Five Charles Wood
   
Interval  
   
Serenade to Music R. Vaughan Williams
   
Sonnet: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws Shakespeare
   
Blow, blow, thou winter wind John Rutter
   
Sonnet: Anne Hathaway Carol Ann Duffy
   
Songs and Sonnets George Shearing
  Live with me and be my love  
  When daffodils begin to peer  
  It was a lover and his lass  
  Spring  
  Who is Silvia?  
  Fie on sinful fantasy  
  Hey, ho, the wind and the rain  

 

Christmas at Blackmore

20th December 2011

with Michael Frith - organ

Hodie Christus natus est Sweelinck

O come, O come, Emmanuel

arr. Willcocks
 From "Messiah" Handel
    And the glory of the Lord  
    And he shall purify  
    For unto us a child is born  
    Pastoral Symphony  
   There were shepherds  
   Glory to God  
   
Magnificat Arvo Part
A Hymn to the Virgin Britten

Reading

 

O little Town of Bethlehem

arr. Vaughan Williams

Videte miraculum

Tallis
The Virgin unspotted arr. I. Holst
The twelve kindly months I Holst
   
I wonder as I wander Rutti
Child of the stable's secret birth           Hewitt Jones
                                                         
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child Leighton
What sweeter music Rutter

O come, all ye faithful

arr.Willcocks
Hodie Christus natus est Poulenc

 

An Old Belief - Music spanning five centuries

22nd October 2011

Ave Regina coeli Dufay
Ave Maria

Josquin

Brentwood Brass  
Sonata Pian' e Forte

Giovanni Gabrieli

O magnum mysterium
Jubilate Deo

Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli

Brentwood Brass  
Earle of Oxford's Marche

Byrd arr. Howarth

Timor et Tremor
Ave verum Corpus
Crucifixus

Lassus
Lassus
Lotti

Interval

 
Songs of Farewell Parry
My soul, there is a country
I know my soul hath power
Never, weather beaten sail
There is an old belief

 
As torrents in summer
My love dwelt in a northern land

Elgar
Elgar

Brentwood Brass  
Excerpt from Water Music Suite No.1
Shenandoah
Eleanor Rigby

Handel arr. Antonin Vaigl
Trad. arr. Alan Fernie
Lennon & McCartney arr. Fernie

Spirituals from A Child of our Time Tippett
Steal away
Nobody knows
Go down, Moses
By and by
Deep river