The English Revival: Carillon Chamber Choir's 2nd concert of the season at St John's Church, Harpenden on Saturday 24th November 2018

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The English Revival

Carillon Chamber Choir's 2nd concert of the season

Add to my Calendar 24-11-2018 19:30 24-11-2018 21:30 36 The English Revival The programme starts with two of the great composers of the first Elizabethan age – William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons - and follows the tradition of English church music through Charles Villiers Stanford to Ralph Vaughan Williams. His wonderful Mass in G minor, perhaps the first Mass written in an English style since the sixteenth century, was dedicated to Gustav Holst and the Whitsuntide Singers. Although its first performance was in a concert, it was intended for liturgical use and was first sung for its proper purpose in Westminster Cathedral in 1922. Stanford’s Three Latin Motets, written for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had been Director of Music while still a student, are deservedly well known and show him at his best as a writer for voices. Greg Hearle is a young clarinettist from Southbank Sinfonia and will play the beautiful Bagatelles by Gerald Finzi, together with a contemporary piece by Simon Holt called Brief Candles which shows the clarinet to be an amazingly versatile and expressive instrument. St John's Church, Harpenden DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Church
5 St John's Road
Southdown
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 1DJ
England

Saturday 24th November 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Mass in G minor
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles, Op.23
Orlando Gibbons – O Lord in Thy Wrath
William Byrd – Sing Joyfully unto God Our Strength
Charles Villiers Stanford – Justorum Animae
Charles Villiers Stanford – 3 Motets: Coelos ascendit hodie
Charles Villiers Stanford – 3 Motets: Beati quorum via
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Valiant-for-truth

Performers

David Ireson – Conductor
Greg Hearle – clarinet

Carillon Chamber Choir

Programme Note

The programme starts with two of the great composers of the first Elizabethan age – William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons - and follows the tradition of English church music through Charles Villiers Stanford to Ralph Vaughan Williams. His wonderful Mass in G minor, perhaps the first Mass written in an English style since the sixteenth century, was dedicated to Gustav Holst and the Whitsuntide Singers. Although its first performance was in a concert, it was intended for liturgical use and was first sung for its proper purpose in Westminster Cathedral in 1922.

Stanford’s Three Latin Motets, written for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had been Director of Music while still a student, are deservedly well known and show him at his best as a writer for voices. Greg Hearle is a young clarinettist from Southbank Sinfonia and will play the beautiful Bagatelles by Gerald Finzi, together with a contemporary piece by Simon Holt called Brief Candles which shows the clarinet to be an amazingly versatile and expressive instrument.

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