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Queen's College Chapel
The Queen's College
High Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 4AW
England
Programme
James MacMillan – O Radiant Dawn
John Rutter – Hymn to the Creator of Light
William Harris – Faire is the heaven
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27
Morten Laurisden – Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems
John Tavener – The Tyger
James MacMillan – The Gallant Weaver
Performers
Owen Rees – Conductor
Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Programme Note
Fire and flames have long captured the imagination of writers and composers. Queen’s Choir here presents a programme of dramatic twentieth-century choral works encompassing the ‘immortal fire’ of Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia, the ’flame of fire’ evoked in John Rutter’s extraordinary Hymn to the Creator of Light, and John Tavener’s majestic evocation of William Blake’s Tyger, ‘burning bright’. The centrepiece is Morten Lauridsen’s Madrigali - Six ‘Fire Songs’, settings of sixteenth-century madrigal texts on the theme of ardent love.
This performance will run without interval.
