Past Concert Programmes

TAKE THE HIGH ROAD

A JOURNEY NORTH IN MUSICAL MILESTONES,

2014, HYDE 900 FESTIVAL, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, WINCHESTER

Thomas Weelkes  O Lord, grant the King a long life

Thomas Weelkes  Come, sirrah Jack, ho!

Samuel Sebastian Wesley  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace

Gerald Finzi  Fear no more the heat of the sun

John Sheppard  Laudem dicite Deo

Orlando Gibbons  Hosanna to the Son of David

Thomas Morley  It was a lover and his lass

Trad, arr Percy Grainger  Brigg Fair

Trad, arr Langford  The Oak and the Ash

Robert Carver  Sanctus, from Missa L'Homme armé

Trad Scottish 16th C  Remember me, my deir

Burns, arr R Vaughan Williams  Ca' the yowes

Burns, arr R Williams  O my Luve is like a red, red rose

THE SEARCH FOR ALFRED THE GREAT

2013, HYDE 900 FESTIVAL, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, WINCHESTER, WITH THE KINGSGATE CONSORT OF VIOLS

William Byrd  Memento homo

John Taverner  Dum transisset à 4

Thomas Tallis  Christ rising again from the dead

William Byrd  Christ rising again from the dead

William Byrd  Fantasy no.2, no 1, in four parts

John Mundy  Were I a king

Orlando Gibbons  What is our life

John Dowland  Courant

Christopher Simpson  Ricercar on 'Bonny Sweet Robin'

John Dowland  Mistresse Nichols Almand

John Dowland  Volta

Benjamin Britten  The Choirmaster’s Burial

Augustin Pfleger  Laudate Pueri

John Dowland  Humour, say (a Dialogue)

MUSICA TRANSATLANTICA

MUSIC SPANNING FIVE CENTURIES, WRITTEN FOR OR INSPIRED BY THE AMERICAS.

2013, LUNCHTIME CONCERT, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla  Gloria from Missa Ave Regina

Juan Esquivel  In paradisum

Henry Loosemore  O Lord increase our faith

Thomas Tomkins  O sing unto the Lord a new song  

Trad, arr Arch, Trant  Kentucky Folk songs

Sergei Rachmaninov  Bogoroditse devo

Benjamin Britten  Hymn to St Cecilia

Trad, from Songs of Yale  Steal away, Slow motion time

Claudio Monteverdi  Sfogava con le stelle

Whitacre  Leonardo dreams of his flying machine

THE QUEENS MUSIC

2013 HYDE 900 FESTIVAL, ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, HYDE, WINCHESTER

Robert Parsons  O bone Jesu

Robert White  Regina coeli

Thomas Tallis  O nata lux

William Byrd  O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth our queen

John Mundy  Lightly she whipped o'er the dales

John Bennet  All creatures now

Henry Purcell  Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

Robert Lucas Pearsall  Lay a garland

Edward Elgar  As torrents in summer

Ralph Vaughan Williams  Gloria from Mass in G minor

Benjamin Britten  Hymn to the Virgin

Roderick Williams  Love bade me welcome

Andrew Lloyd Webber  Memory, from ‘Cats’

MUSICA TRANSATLANTICA

MUSIC SPANNING FIVE CENTURIES, WRITTEN FOR OR INSPIRED BY THE AMERICAS.

2012, CONVENTUAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM, LONDON

Padilla  Lamentations

Franco  Christus factus est

Rachmaninov  Bogoroditse devo

Trad, arr Arch, Trant  Kentucky Folk songs

Britten  Hymn to St Cecilia

Esquivel  Duo Seraphim

Esquivel  In paradisum

Trad, arr Bartholomew  Steal away

Take 6/Warren  Come unto me

Trad, arr various  Scarborough Fair

Monteverdi  Sfogava con le stelle

Whitacre  Leonardo dreams of his flying machine

STILL CRACKING THE CODE

2007, LUNCHTIME CONCERT, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

Josquin Dez Prez  Agnus Dei from Missa L’Homme Armé Sexti Toni

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina  Agnus Dei from Missa Papae Marcelli

Pierre Villette  Hymne à la Vierge

Charles Trenet, arr Williams  Boum!

Thomas Tallis  Miserere nostri

William Byrd  Diliges Dominum

Henry Purcell  A Catch by way of Epistle

Scottish trad., arr Bantock  O can ye sew cushions

Giovanni Bassano  Dic nobis Maria

Simon Lole  A song of Mary Magdalene

MAKING WAVES

2005, LUNCHTIME CONCERT, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

William Byrd  All as a sea

Claudio Monteverdi  Ave maris stella

Giaches de Wert  Ascendente Jesu in naviculam

Ralph Vaughan Williams  From Five English folksongs:

  The Dark Eyed Sailor,

  The Lover’s Ghost,

  Just as the Tide was Flowing

Spiritual, arr Adams  Wade in the Water

Traditional, arr JAW  The Mermaid

Charles Trenet, arr C Daniels  La Mer

POWER AND GLORY

2003, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

Sheppard Haec Dies

Taverner  Gloria from Missa Corona Spinea

Tallis  O Nata Lux

Byrd  O Lord, make thy servant

Victoria  Ave Maria

Bruckner  Ave Maria

Tallis  Spem in alium

Byrd  Attolite portas

Josquin des Prez  Inviolata

Monteverdi  Cantate Domino

Williams  Improperia

Spiritual, Arr Chilcott  Didn’t it rain

Spiritual, Arr Adams  Wade in the water

Palestrina  Agnus Dei from Missa Papae Marcelli

CROSSING CONTINENTS

2002, LUNCHTIME CONCERT, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

de Padilla  Salve Regina

Weelkes  Thule the period of cosmography

Kodaly  Mountain nights

Trad, arr Grainger  Brigg Fair

Rachmaninov  Ave Maria

Spirituals

  Steal away, arr Bartholomew

  I got a robe, arr RGC Williams ​

  Wade in the water, arr Adams

Siffre, arr RGC & MS Williams – Something inside so strong