Portsmouth Baroque Choir Summer Concert: Times and Seasons at Christ Church, Chichester on Saturday 6th July 2024

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Portsmouth Baroque Choir Summer Concert

Times and Seasons

Add to my Calendar 06-07-2024 19:00 06-07-2024 21:00 36 Portsmouth Baroque Choir Summer Concert Portsmouth Baroque Choir returns to the Festival of Chichester to give its Summer concert Times and Seasons, featuring Jonathan Dove’s cantata The Passing of the Year John Rutter’s Five Childhood Lyrics and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. A selection of Madrigals and Part songs complete the programme. The concert opens with a trio of well-known madrigals and a part song by Elgar. Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year dates from 2000 and is fast becoming a modern classic having been recorded three times already most notably by Voces 8 with the composer at the piano. John Rutter’s Five Childhood Lyrics are arrangements of (mostly) well-known nursery rhymes. They date from 1973 early in his career but sound as fresh and dynamic as ever. Mendelssohn’s Sechs Lieder (Six songs) Op. 59 were written to be sung outdoors. Settings of poems by Goethe Eichendorff Chézy and Uhland they lead us to the heart of the Romantic preoccupation with the self at one with time and Nature a liberating philosophy tempered by an acute awareness of the unattainable.  Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music needs little introduction save that its sets lines from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in which the characters consider the best time to appreciate the 'music of the spheres'. Originally written for sixteen solo singers and orchestra it will be performed in a version for four soloists (drawn from the choir) and piano. accompaniment along with some instrumental colour. Christ Church, Chichester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Christ Church
Old Market Avenue
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1SW
England

Saturday 6th July 2024
7:00 PM

Programme

Thomas Weelkes – To shorten winter's sadness
Thomas Morley – April Is in My Mistress' Face
Thomas Morley – Now is the Month of Maying
Edward Elgar – The Saga of King Olaf: 'As Torrents In Summer'
Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the Year
Frank Bridge – The Bee, H.110
~ Interval ~
John Rutter – Five Childhood Lyrics
Felix Mendelssohn – 6 Lieder 'Im Freien zu singen', Op.59
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music

Performers

Malcolm Keeler – Conductor
Peter Rhodes – piano

Portsmouth Baroque Choir

Programme Note

Portsmouth Baroque Choir returns to the Festival of Chichester to give its Summer concert Times and Seasons, featuring Jonathan Dove’s cantata The Passing of the Year John Rutter’s Five Childhood Lyrics and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. A selection of Madrigals and Part songs complete the programme.

The concert opens with a trio of well-known madrigals and a part song by Elgar. Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year dates from 2000 and is fast becoming a modern classic having been recorded three times already most notably by Voces 8 with the composer at the piano. John Rutter’s Five Childhood Lyrics are arrangements of (mostly) well-known nursery rhymes. They date from 1973 early in his career but sound as fresh and dynamic as ever. Mendelssohn’s Sechs Lieder (Six songs) Op. 59 were written to be sung outdoors. Settings of poems by Goethe Eichendorff Chézy and Uhland they lead us to the heart of the Romantic preoccupation with the self at one with time and Nature a liberating philosophy tempered by an acute awareness of the unattainable.

Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music needs little introduction save that its sets lines from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in which the characters consider the best time to appreciate the 'music of the spheres'. Originally written for sixteen solo singers and orchestra it will be performed in a version for four soloists (drawn from the choir) and piano. accompaniment along with some instrumental colour.

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