Durham Singers: Songs for Joséphine at St Brandon's Church, Durham on Saturday 6th July 2019

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Durham Singers: Songs for Joséphine

Add to my Calendar 06-07-2019 19:30 06-07-2019 21:30 36 Durham Singers: Songs for Joséphine Our summer programme is inspired by the magnificent collection in The Bowes Museum and its founder, the actor, collector and artist Joséphine Bowes.  We begin in the first half with Joséphine’s extensive European collection. El Greco’s painting ‘The tears of St Peter’ is matched in intensity by a poignant madrigal by Lassus and a miniature drama by Charpentier that features our guest soloists Patrick Owston and James Draper. We turn to Venice for music by Lotti and Monteverdi and we pay tribute to The Bowes Museum’s much loved Silver Swan. In the second half of the concert turn to Joséphine’s own world, imagining ourselves at home in a grand nineteenth-century Anglo-French salon, with English and French music that touches on the landscapes and love-stories, including those in Joséphine’s own paintings. To end the concert, we sing Samuel Wesley’s large scale anthem for choir and organ ‘Ascribe unto the Lord’ ,a lavishly tuneful piece that expresses the optimism and ambition of the Victorian age in the same way that Joséphine and her English husband John achieved with their museum.   St Brandon's Church, Durham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Brandon's Church
Brancepeth
Brancepeth
Durham
County Durham
DH7 8DF
England

Saturday 6th July 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Thomas Tomkins – O Praise the Lord
Orlande de Lassus – Lagrime di san Pietro: Como Falda di Neve
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Reniement de Saint Pierre
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus a 8 voci
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610: Lauda Jerusalem
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Cecilia McDowall – The skies in their magnificence
Camille Saint-Saens – Calme des nuits, Op.68 no.1
Camille Saint-Saens – Les Fleurs et les Arbres, Op.68 no.2
Herbert Howells – Walking in the Snow
Charles Gounod – Prière du soir
Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Ascribe unto the Lord

Performers

Julian Wright – Conductor
Francesca Massey – organ
Patrick Owston – Bass
James Draper – Tenor

Durham Singers

Programme Note

Our summer programme is inspired by the magnificent collection in The Bowes Museum and its founder, the actor, collector and artist Joséphine Bowes.

We begin in the first half with Joséphine’s extensive European collection. El Greco’s painting ‘The tears of St Peter’ is matched in intensity by a poignant madrigal by Lassus and a miniature drama by Charpentier that features our guest soloists Patrick Owston and James Draper. We turn to Venice for music by Lotti and Monteverdi and we pay tribute to The Bowes Museum’s much loved Silver Swan.

In the second half of the concert turn to Joséphine’s own world, imagining ourselves at home in a grand nineteenth-century Anglo-French salon, with English and French music that touches on the landscapes and love-stories, including those in Joséphine’s own paintings.

To end the concert, we sing Samuel Wesley’s large scale anthem for choir and organ ‘Ascribe unto the Lord’ ,a lavishly tuneful piece that expresses the optimism and ambition of the Victorian age in the same way that Joséphine and her English husband John achieved with their museum.

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