CONCERTS & TOURS
     

CONCERTS IN THE ANTIBES SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday 8 February · 8.30 pm

L'église St Michel, Grimaud (département du Vars), France

  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus (à 8)
  • Eustache du Caurroy, Ave Maria
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc, Gloria and Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • W.A. Mozart, 2 canons for upper voices (Ave Maria and Alleluia)
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei
  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis
  • Hubert Parry, Lord let me know mine end
  • Francis Poulenc, Agnus Dei (Messe en sol)
  • J.S. Bach, Der Geist hilft
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Saturday 9 February · 9.00 pm

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea, Antibes, Côte d'Azur, France

Programme as above

Thursday 22 May · 7.00 pm

Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

Haydn, The Creation

Joanne Lunn soprano, Mark Milhofer tenor, David Stout bass
The Choir of New College, Oxford
The Oxford Philomusic
directed by Marios Papadopoulos

Tickets: £30, £23, £17, £10
Box office: Tel: 020 7730 4500
online booking (link opens a new window)

Concert in the York Early Music Festival

Thursday 10 July · 7.30 pm

St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate, York

New College Choir, with the Saraband Consort, directed by Edward Higginbottom

Royalty in Exile

    Catholic Queens in Protestant England, 1660 - 1688

  • Matthew Locke, Super flumina Babylonis
  • Matthew Locke, Audi, Domine, clamantes ad te
  • Henry Purcell, Beati omnes
  • Henry Purcell, Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei
  • Innocenzo Fede, Laudate pueri

    Stuart Kings in Catholic France, 1688 -

  • François Couperin, Exultent superi [Motet de Sainte Suzanne]
  • François Couperin, Precatio ad Deum
  • François Couperin, Lauda Sion
  • François Couperin, Sonate La ‘Visionnaire’
  • François Couperin, Resonent organa (pro Sancta Caecilia)

This programme examines the music written for performance in royal chapels in foreign lands. It presents music of the second half of the 17th century associated with Catholic queens in England, and the Stuart monarchy in France; the first in religious exile, the second in political. Here is music written by English composers to Latin texts (clearly never intended for the Protestant liturgy), music written to the celebrated Biblical account of exile in Exodus (Super flumina Babylonis), and music written for the exiled Stuart Court in France at St Germain en Laye.
The concert will be relayed on the BBC Early Music Show on 13 July

Tickets: £20 reserved central nave, unreserved seats £15 side aisles and balcony (£13 concessions) from:
National Centre for Early Music Tel: 01904 658338
www.ncem.co.uk
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Summer Tour Concerts

Concert in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Friday 18 July · 7.30 pm

St Marien, Bergen, Isle of Rugen

Treasures of Sacred Choral Music

  • John Taverner, Mater Christi
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieiunio et fletu
  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis
  • William Byrd, Ave verum corpus
  • William Byrd, Haec dies
  • Henry Purcell, Hear my prayer
  • William Boyce, Come holy ghost
  • Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus (à 8)
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc, Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • Olivier Messiaen, O sacrum convivium
  • Henrik Górecki, Totus tuus
  • William Harris, Faire is the heav’n
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Concert in the Festival de Masevaux, France

Sunday 20 July · 5.30 pm

Eglise Saint-Martin de Masevaux

Grandes Heures Liturgiques

  • John Taverner (c.1490-1545), Mater Christi
  • Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), In ieiunio et fletu
  • William Byrd (c.1539-1623), Laudibus in sanctis
  • William Byrd, Fantaisie en la, pour orgue
  • William Byrd, Haec dies
  • Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Hear my prayer
  • Henry Purcell , Voluntary for double organ
  • Henry Purcell , Remember not, Lord
  • Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Nicholas Ludford (c.1485-1557), Ave cuius conceptio
  • Antonio Lotti (1667-1740), Crucifixus (à 8)
  • James MacMillan (b.1959), Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Cantique de Jean Racine
  • Henrik Górecki (b.1933), Totus tuus
  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Wie lieblich sind diene Wohnungen
  • Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652), Miserere mei

Concert in the Festival ‘Les très riches heures de l’orgue en Berry’

Tuesday 22 July

Cathedral of St Etienne, Bourges

Les très riches heures de la musique sacrée

  • John Taverner, Mater Christi
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieiunio et fletu
  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis
  • William Byrd, Fantasia in A minor (organ)
  • William Byrd, Haec dies
  • Henry Purcell, Hear my prayer
  • Henry Purcell, Voluntary for double organ (organ)
  • Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus (à 8)
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc, Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • Olivier Messiaen, Joie et clarté (organ)
  • Henrik Górecki, Totus tuus
  • Edward Elgar, Sonata in G major (mov. I)(organ)
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Concert in the Festival du Haut Limousin

Wednesday 23 July · 9.00 pm

Collégiale Le Dorat

Programme as for Tuesday 22nd

Tickets: 05 55 60 29 32

Concert in the Festival de La Vezère

Friday 25 July · 9.00 pm

Collégiale Saint-Martin, Brive

Programme as for Friday 18

Opening concert of the Ambronay Festival 2008

Saturday September 20 · 8.30 pm

Abbatiale d'Ambronay, 01500 Ambronay, France

Odes à Sainte Cecile

  • Purcell, Sonata for Trumpet and Strings
  • Charpentier, Caecilia virgo [part one]
  • Purcell, Chacony in G minor
  • Charpentier, Caecilia virgo [part two]

  • Purcell, Ode on St Cecilia's Day (1692)

Susan Gilmour Bailey soprano | David Alsopp countertenor
Mark Dobell, Nicholas Mulroy tenors | Matthew Brooks bass
David Blackadder trumpet
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Collegium Novum (leader Simon Jones)
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Concerts in Hungary

Monday October 6 · 7.00 pm

János Richter Hall, Györ

Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers of the Blessed Virgin

Grace Davidson, Susan Gilmour Bailey sopranos
Mark Dobell, Thomas Hobbs tenors
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Charivari Agréable (Kah-Ming Ng musical director)
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Tuesday October 7 · 7.30 pm

Ferenc Liszt Academy, Budapest

Programme and soloists as October 6

Thursday December 11 · 7.30 pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Christmas Concert

A programme of Christmas music and readings, in aid of the Pendyffryn Trust

Concerts in Italy

Wednesday December 17 Belluno
Thursday December 18 Vicenza
Friday December 19 Verona

Nativitas

  • Drop down ye heavens (Advent Prose)

Promise of Redemption

  • Appalachian song arr. Carter, I wonder as I wander
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Alma redemptoris

Annunciation

  • John Joubert, There is no rose
  • Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria
  • Basque carol arr. Pettman, The angel Gabriel
  • Anton Bruckner, Virga Jesse floruit

Journey to Bethlehem

  • Michael Head, The little road to Bethlehem
  • Henry Gauntlett, arr Mann, Once in royal David’s city

Birth of Jesus

  • William Byrd, Puer natus est nobis
  • Medieval German carol, arr. R.L. Pearsall, In dulci jubilo
  • Morten Lauridsen, O magnum mysterium
  • Francis Poulenc, Hodie Christus natus est

Visit of the shepherds

  • J.C.F. Bach, Gloria sei dir gesungen
  • Francis Poulenc, Quem vidistis, pastores
  • Franz Gruber, arr. Carter, Stille Nacht
  • Czech traditional carol, arr. Higginbottom, Rocking

Visit of the Magi

  • Peter Gritton, Follow that star
  • Francis Poulenc, Videntes stellam
  • Herbert Howells, Here is the little door
  • Peter Cornelius, The three kings

Envoi

  • Peter Wishart, Alleluya, a new work is come on hand
  • Piae cantiones, arr Willcocks, Of the father’s heart begotten