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
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
Concert 3 2024
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