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