Concert 1 2024

…and the river runs away

“A diverse program of songs about love, water, and loss”

Program

Johannes Brahms – Nachtwache II op.104 no.1& 2

Robert A. Harris – April Rain Song

Kevin Barker** – Now Fades the Last Long Streak of Snow

Rani Arbo – Crossing the bar

Benjamin Britten – Carry her over the water

Donald Hollier** – Crossing the Bar

Hans Huber* – Aus Goethes West-östlichem Divan

Johannes Brahms – Vineta

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – By the lone seashore

Judith Bingham – The Drowned Lovers

C.V. Stanford – The Blue Bird

Andrew Howes** – Moss Stone Cantic

Richard Rodney Bennett* – Nonsense

* With piano duet: Josephine Allan and David Miller
** Bel Prize winner

Conductor: Monica Buckland

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Concert 2 2024

Sanctus

“Bruckner’s Mass in E minor, together with the piece that inspired it… in collaboration with the winds of Balmain Sinfonia”

PROGRAM

Anton Bruckner – Mass in E Minor

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Brevis

Conductor: Monica Buckland

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Concert 3 2024

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Mass for Saint Cecilia

Works by 20th- and 21st-century composers for the patron saint of music (including 2 new works being written just for this concert), together with Frank Martin’s electrifying Mass for double choir.

PROGRAM

Herbert Howells A Hymn for St Cecilia

Cecilia McDowall Cecilia, busy like a bee

Sarah MacDonald Cantica Sanctae Ceciliae

Judith Bingham Consider Saint Cecilia

Katharine Parton New Work

Paul Stanhope Lament to Saint Cecilia

Daniel Knaggs Hymn to St Cecilia

Frank Martin Mass 1922


Conductor: Monica Buckland

Organ: David Drury


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