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St Mary Aldermary
Watling Street
City of London
London
EC4M 9BW
England
Programme
William Byrd – Sing Joyfully unto God Our Strength
Richard Dering – Factum est silentium
Orlando Gibbons – O clap your hands together
William Byrd – Haec Dies
Thomas Morley – In dew of roses
Thomas Tomkins – Adieu, Ye City-Pris'ning Towers
Thomas Weelkes – Thule, the Period of Cosmography
Edward Elgar – The Saga of King Olaf: 'As Torrents In Summer'
Charles Villiers Stanford – 3 Motets: Coelos ascendit hodie
Charles Villiers Stanford – Justorum Animae
Charles Villiers Stanford – 3 Motets: Beati quorum via
Janet Wheeler – Beati quorum via
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Full Fathom Five
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs: 'The Cloud Capp'd Towers'
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Over hill, over dale
Rebecca Clarke – Weep you no more sad fountains
Performers
Lucy Goddard – choral director
Orlando Chamber Choir
Programme Note
If music were matter, each song, once sung, would softly settle in a sonorous layer of sound – and with the passing of time we’d build up a beautiful bedrock of music. Britain, with its longstanding choral tradition, would truly be an isle of song, the sediment of its constituent scores clear to be seen in the white cliffs of Dover…
…and it’s such a cross-section of compositions, representing half a millennium of music, which Orlando Chamber Choir unearths for its summer programme. Your ears will be drawn to the choral ore of two golden ages as we pick out some sparkling motets and part-songs of the late English Renaissance and explore the warmly-glowing wealth of works written in the first half of the 20th century.
Join us on a journey through time made song and let its melodies softly settle on your soul.
