2008 Concert Programmes
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7.30pm, Saturday 6th December, 2008
St. Paul's Church, Canterbury
Settings of words from the "Song of songs":
- John Dunstable - Quam pulcra est
- Guillaume Dufay - Anima mea liquefacta est
- Antoine Brumel - Sicut lilium interspinas
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
- Tomas Luis de Victoria - Trahe me post te
- Thomas Tomkins - My beloved spake unto me
- Henry Purcell - My beloved spake
- William Walton - Set me as a seal upon thine heart
- Francis Grier - Dilectus meus mihi
- Howard Skempton - Rise up, my love
And some seasonal music:
- Morten Lauridsen - O magnum mysterium
- William Mathias - Ave Rex
7.30pm, Saturday 28th June, 2008
St. Paul's Church, Canterbury
- William Beckmann - The north ship - guest soloists Ruth Beckmann (soprano), Peter Cook (soprano saxophone)
- William Byrd - Mass for four voices
- Ralph Vaughan Williams - The dark eyed sailor, Just as the tide was flowing, The lover's ghost
- Edward Elgar - As torrents in summer, The shower
7.30pm, Saturday 29th March, 2008
St. Paul's Church, Canterbury, with the Cantemus Orchestra
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Dixit Dominus
- Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus Vir
- Anton Bruckner - Three graduals for the church year
- Johannes Brahms - three songs from Weltliche
- Henry Purcell - Jehova quam multi hostes, Funeral sentences