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Carpenters' Hall
Throgmorton Avenue
City of London
London
EC2N 2JJ
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf, Op.74 no.2
Samuel Wilson – Le Cygne (First performance)
Aaron Copland – Simple Gifts
John Gardner – Marche Militaire (arr. of Franz Schubert)
Igor Stravinsky – Tres sacrae cantiones (Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa)
Gunnar Eriksson – Music for a while (arr. of Henry Purcell)
Bob Chilcott – The Gift to be Simple
Percy Grainger – Now, O now I needs must part
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas: 'With drooping wings ye cupids come'
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas: 'Ah! Belinda, when I am laid in earth'
James MacMillan – O radiant dawn, from Strathclyde Motets
Thomas Tallis – O nata lux de lumine
Roderick Williams – Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Percy Grainger – Blithe Bells
John Dowland – Now, O Now, I Needs Must part
Jan Sandström – Es ist ein ros entsprungen
Michael Praetorius – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Bob Chilcott – My Prayer
Henry Purcell – Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Z.15
Performers
Stephen Jones – Conductor
Philip Shannon – piano
City Chamber Choir
Programme Note
City Chamber Choir’s programme explores the various ways in which composers have appropriated the creations of their fellow composers to add their own voice to something that has fired their imagination: how they have taken a simple tune or bass line and repeated it in ever more elaborate ways; how they have completed a noble fragment; or how they have transformed an ancient piece through the prism of modern harmonies. So, from Grainger’s ‘rambles’, to Roderick Williams' ‘re-imaginings’, from Stravinsky’s completions to masterful variations by Purcell and Brahms, and a joyfully anarchic ‘rearrangement’ by Gardner, the evening will be full of examples of exquisite and ingenious craftsmanship.
The Carpenters’ Company Charitable Trust supports many charities including The Carpenters and Dockland Centre, the Lord Mayor’s Appeal, St Paul’s Cathedral and The Soldier’s Charity, as well as allocating funds to help offset the running costs of the Building Crafts College.
