Saturday 3rd December, 2011
St. Paul's Church, Canterbury
Music for Advent (with the early-music instrumental group, the Cantemus Players)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Conditor alme siderum
- Orlande de Lassus - Omnes de Saba venient
- Orlande de Lassus - Resonet in laudibus
- Orlande de Lassus - Magnificat sexti toni
- Francisco Guerrero - Canite tuba
- Guillaume Costeley - Allon, gay bergeres
- José de Torres y Martinez Bravo - La gloria se admire
- Francisco Escalada - Lauda Sion
- John-Baptiste Loeillet of London - Sonata in G op1, no2
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Messe de minuit
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
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Psalm 1
Man blest no doubt from Nine psalm tunes for Archbishop Parker’s psalter [Concert mp3]
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Thomas Tallis
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Genesis 28: vv. 12, 17
Vidit Jacob scalam [Concert mp3]
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Thomas Crecquillon
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Day
Morgengruβ [Concert mp3]
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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Dawn
Ecco mormorar l’onde
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Kyrie
Le Roy Kyrie
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John Taverner
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Setting out
The sailor and young Nancy [Concert mp3]
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Ernest John Moeran
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Endings
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Returning
I love my love [Concert mp3]
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Gustav Holst
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Agnus Dei
from Missa da pacem
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Josquin Desprez (attrib.)
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Dusk
Come, sable night
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John Ward
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Night
The long day closes [Concert mp3]
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Arthur Sullivan
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Revelations 21: vv. 1 - 4
And I saw a new heaven [Concert mp3]
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Edgar Bainton
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Psalm 150
Laudibus in sanctis [Concert mp3]
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William Byrd
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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)