Eton Choral Courses

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Course 1

Choral Evensong at Christchurch, Oxford (with Stephen Darlington)

1. Derling - Factum est silentium
2. Responses: Ayleward
3. Psalms 47, 48 and 49
4. Canticles: Purcell - in G minor
5. Purcell - Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes

Recital in Eton College Chapel

1. Tavener - Song for Athene
2. Vaughan Williams - Three Shakespeare Songs
3. MacMillan - A New Song
4. Parry - Lord, let me know mine end (Songs of Farewell)
5. Schubert, arr. Allwood - Litanei
6. Schubert, arr. Smalllwood - An die Musik
7. African Songs, arr. Brewer - Hamba Lulu

Course 2

Choral Evensong at St John's Cambridge (with Andrew Nethsingha)

1. Bruckner - Locus iste
2. Responses: Sumsion
3. Psalms 93 and 94
4. Canticles: Blair - in B minor
5. Elgar - Give unto the Lord

Broadcast Choral Evensong

1. Max Reger - Der Mensch lebt bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit
2. Responses: Sumsion
3. Psalm 104
4. Office Hymn
5. Hieronymus Praetorius - Magnificat
6. Heinrich Schultz - German Nunc dimittis from Musikalische Exequien
7. Johannes Brahms - Warum ist das Licht gegeben?

Course 3

Choral Evensong at Queens' Oxford (with Owen Rees)

1. Introit
2. Responses: Shephard
3. Psalms 136, 137 and 138
4. Canticles: Dyson - in F
5. William Harris - Bring Us, O Lord God

Recital in Eton College Chapel

1. Monteverdi - Ave Maria (from 1610 Vespers)
2. Parsons - Ave Maria
3. Bax - I sing of a maiden
4. Bruchner - Ave Maria
5. Stanford - When Mary thro' the garden went
6. Britten - Hymn to the Virgin
7. MacMillan - Seinte Maria, mode milde
8. Finzi - Magnificat

Course 4

Compline at Worcester Cathedral

1. Victoria - Nunc dimittis
2. John Sheppard - In manus tuas
3. Bach - Hymn 22

Recital at Tewkesbury Abbey

1. Thomas Tallis - Thou was, O God, and thou wast blest
2. William Byrd - Ne irascaris and civitas sancti
3. J.S. Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542)
4. Thomas Tallis - Sancte Deus
5. Thomas Tallis - Verily I say unto you
6. Nicholas Maw - One foot in Eden still I stand
7. Eric Whitacre - Lux aurumque
8. Jonathan Dove - Ecce beatam lucem
9. Patrick Gowers - Toccata
10. Edward Elgar - Give unto the Lord

Course 5

Choral Evensong at Queens' Oxford (with Ben Nicholas)

1. John Tavener - Christe Jesus pastor bone
2. Responses: Sumsion
3. Psalm 89
4. Canticles: Wood - in G for double choir
5. Hymn - Alleluia, alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raise
6. Stanford - For lo! I raise up

Recital at Merton College Oxford

1. John Sheppard - Libera nos, salva nos
2. Richard Quesnel - Hymnus
3. Victoria - Salve regina
4. John Tavener - Christe Jesu pastor bone
5. Parry - Never weather-beaten sail
6. Palestrina - Tu es Petrus
7. Eric Whitacre - Sleep
8. Bruckner - Pange Lingua

Course 6

Choral Evensong at Caius' College Cambridge (with Geoffrey Webber)

1. Robert Whyte - Christe, qui lux es
   
2. Responses: Byrd
3. Psalms
4. Canticles: Grayston Ives - Edington Service
5. Arnold Bax - This Worldes Joie
   

Recital at Trinity College

1. Herbert Howells - A Sequence for St Michael
   
2. Thomas Tallis - Loquebantur, variis linguis
   
3. Robert Whyte - Christe, qui lux es
   
4. Arvo Pärt - …which was the son of…
5. Edward Naylor - Vox dicentis clama
   
6. Eric Whitacre - hope, faith, love, life
7. Arnold Bax - This worldes joie
   
8. Guerro - Surge propera amica mea