Cantemus Chamber Choir

2011 Concert Programmes

Full listings: 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011

7.30pm, Saturday 25th June, 2011
St. Paul's Church, Canterbury

"Beginnings and endings"

This concert featured pairs of pieces: each "beginning" piece in the first half matched by an "ending" piece in the second half.

Beginnings

Psalm 1
Man blest no doubt from Nine psalm tunes for Archbishop Parker’s psalter [Concert mp3]

Thomas Tallis

 

Genesis 28: vv. 12, 17
Vidit Jacob scalam [Concert mp3]

Thomas Crecquillon

 

 

Day
Morgengruβ [Concert mp3]

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

 

 

 

Dawn
Ecco mormorar l’onde

Claudio Monteverdi

 

 

 

 

Kyrie
Le Roy Kyrie

John Taverner

 

 

 

 

 

Setting out
The sailor and young Nancy [Concert mp3]

Ernest John Moeran

 

 

Endings
   

 

 

 

 

 

Returning
I love my love [Concert mp3]

Gustav Holst

 

 

 

 

Agnus Dei
from Missa da pacem

Josquin Desprez (attrib.)

 

 

 

Dusk
Come, sable night

John Ward

 

 

Night
The long day closes [Concert mp3]

Arthur Sullivan

 

Revelations 21: vv. 1 - 4
And I saw a new heaven [Concert mp3]

Edgar Bainton

Psalm 150
Laudibus in sanctis [Concert mp3]

William Byrd

7.30pm, Saturday 2nd April, 2011
St. Paul's Church, Canterbury

"Light and Shade"

This concert featured music which contemplated the shade or darkness of death, or celebrated light and life.

  • Johannes Brahms – Zwei motetten Op.74 (Warum ist das Licht gegeben den Mühseligen?; O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf)
  • Francis Poulenc - Two motets from Four motets for the season of Lent (Timor et tremor; Vinea mea electa)
  • Eric Whitacre - Lux aurumque
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)
  • Thomas Luis de Victoria - Magnificat sexti toni (for twelve voices)