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

Details

St Andrew's Church
5 St Andrew Street
Holborn, City of London
London
EC4A 3AF
England

Programme

John Wilbye – Sweet honey-sucking bees
Thomas Morley – Hard by a crystal fountain
Michael Praetorius – Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
Hieronymus Praetorius – Angelus ad pastores ait
Heinrich Schütz – Der Engel sprach zu de Hirten
Hans Leo Hassler – Verbum caro factum est
William Byrd – O God that guides the cheerful sun
Andrea Gabrieli – Vieni, vieni, Himeneo
Adrian Willaert – Cingari simo venit' a giocare
Adriano Banchieri – Contraponto bestiale alla mente
Alonso Lobo – Vivo ego, dicit Dominus
Francisco Guerrero – Ave Regina coelorum
Francisco Guerrero – Clamabat autem mulier
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Pueri Hebraeorum
Giovanni Gabrieli – Surrexit pastor bonus
Giovanni Gabrieli – Angelus Domine descendit
Giovanni Croce – Regina coeli
Orlando di Lasso – Aurora lucis rutilat
William Byrd – Christ Rising Again

Performers

Lucy Goddard – Director

Orlando Chamber Choir
Chelys Consort of Viols

Programme Note

Join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary with a year-long journey of sound during which we’ll experience the musical seasons throughout Europe.

We’ll set out in spring, the season of the choir’s first concert a quarter-century ago, and sing farewell to the English countryside with songs by Wilbye and Morley. Around Advent or Christmas our choral coach should have reached Germany to prize the heavenly harmonies of our hosts Praetorius, Schütz and Hassler – after which our itinerary leads to Italy for some carnivalesque counterpoint by Gabrieli, Willaert and Banchieri. Our party’s procession proceeds to Spain for luscious sounds of Lent by Lobo, Guerrero and De Victoria, and then venite! Easter is in Venice where Gabrieli, Croce and Di Lasso supply a sumptuous soundscape – before Byrd beckons us back to Britain to arrive, exhausted but exhilarated, in time for the subsequent spring.

We are proud to be joined on this journey by our anniversary travel companions, the Chelys Consort of Viols, who will pull all their festive strings for added celebratory sonority. There may be balloons and bubbles, and we’ve heard rumours of a large interval cake.

What a journey it has been! What a journey it will be! Join us! Venite!

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