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Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England
Programme
William Cornysh – Woefully Array’d
Orlandus Lassus – Timor et Tremor
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Alma Redemptoris Mater
William Byrd – Attolite Portas
Johann Sebastian Bach – Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226
Thea Musgrave – On the Underground set no.2 (The Strange & the Exotic)
Joanna Marsh – The World is Charged (2021)
Performers
Robert Hollingworth – Conductor
The 24
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Programme Note
To start the year Spanish, Flemish, German and Finnish masterworks from across the centuries. But the concert’s frame is of notable settings of English texts. Joanna Marsh’s heart-moving setting of Irish poet John F. Deane embodies a way to live in a difficult world, while Cornysh sets his controversial late fifteenth-century contemporary John Skelton in an unusual setting, imagining the words of Christ on the cross.
‘My feet and handes sore,
Thy sturdy nailes tore,
What might I suffer more
Than I have done,
O man, for thee?’
(A fifteenth-century poem, attributed to John Skelton)
