Exultate Singers: Every breath a song at St George's Bristol, Bristol on Saturday 16th October 2021

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Exultate Singers: Every breath a song

Add to my Calendar 16-10-2021 19:30 16-10-2021 21:30 36 Exultate Singers: Every breath a song Exultate Singers returns to the stage of St George’s Bristol in its full glory to perform a programme of choral music spanning 400 years from the early 17th century to the early 21st. Experience the power of human voices singing live, exploring intricate textures that range from the rich and full-blooded to delicate and translucent. The concert opens with a piece by the choir’s conductor, David Ogden, celebrating the gift of song. The atmospheric piece begins with a simple 8th century plainsong melody, which returns as a refrain between the verses of the 20th century poem Every breath a song before building to a thrilling conclusion. The cellist Richard May performs beautiful cello solos by Bach and Rheinberger, some arranged especially for this concert. The choir is divided into two halves to duet and duel in Bach’s virtuosic motet Singet dem Herrn, Gibbons’ vivacious and energetic anthem O clap your hands, and in Rheinberger’s wonderfully lyrical and expressive double choir mass setting. The programme is completed with two motets by the Netherlands’ most famous composer, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, marking the 400th anniversary of his death. St George's Bristol, Bristol DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England

Saturday 16th October 2021
7:30 PM

Programme

David Ogden – Every Breath A Song
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – Mass in E flat major 'Cantus Missa', Op.109
Johann Sebastian Bach – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (motet), BWV 225
Johann Sebastian Bach – Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156: Arioso
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Domine Deus meus
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Gaudete omnes et laetamini, SwWV 182
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Orlando Gibbons – O clap your hands together

Performers

David Ogden – Conductor
Richard May – Cello
Richard Johnson – chamber organ

Exultate Singers

Programme Note

Exultate Singers returns to the stage of St George’s Bristol in its full glory to perform a programme of choral music spanning 400 years from the early 17th century to the early 21st. Experience the power of human voices singing live, exploring intricate textures that range from the rich and full-blooded to delicate and translucent.

The concert opens with a piece by the choir’s conductor, David Ogden, celebrating the gift of song. The atmospheric piece begins with a simple 8th century plainsong melody, which returns as a refrain between the verses of the 20th century poem Every breath a song before building to a thrilling conclusion.

The cellist Richard May performs beautiful cello solos by Bach and Rheinberger, some arranged especially for this concert.

The choir is divided into two halves to duet and duel in Bach’s virtuosic motet Singet dem Herrn, Gibbons’ vivacious and energetic anthem O clap your hands, and in Rheinberger’s wonderfully lyrical and expressive double choir mass setting. The programme is completed with two motets by the Netherlands’ most famous composer, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, marking the 400th anniversary of his death.

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