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Eton Choral Courses

2010 Music Lists

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This is a provisional list of music we hope to be part of this year’s choral courses. It may change at any time.

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Course 1

Tuesday 6th - Wednesday 14th July  July, Eton College

Director: Ben Parry

Choral Evensong in St John's, Cambridge (12th July)

  • Introit: O taste and see - Vaughan Williams
  • Preces & Responses: Radcliffe
  • Psalms 65, 66, 67
  • Canticles: Gloucester Service - Howells
  • Anthem: Christus factus est - Bruckner
  • Hymn: 130, Jesus shall reign where e're the Sun (Truro, descant Ledger)

Recital in Eton College Chapel (13th July)

  • Flower Songs - Benjamin Britten
  • Four Motets (Tantum ergo, Tota Pulchra Es, Tu es Petrus, Ubi caritas) - Maurice Duruflé
  • Reincarnations - Samuel Barber
  • Mass - James MacMillan

Course 2

Saturday 10th - Sunday 18th July, Cheltenham College

Director: Ralph Allwood with John Bowley as assistant

Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey (Thursday 15th July)

  • Introit: Man, dreame no more - Peerson
  • Responses: Richard Lloyd
  • Psalm 39 (Woodward), Job 38, Luke 18:1–14
  • Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Arvo Pärt
  • Anthem: Geistliches Lied - Brahms
  • Hymn: 111, How shall I sing that majesty

Recital in the Cheltenham Festival (5 pm, Saturday 17th July)

  • Magnificat - Arvo Pärt
  • An die Sterne (from Vier doppelchörige Gesänge, op. 141 no. 1 (1849)) - Robert Schumann
  • O vos omnes - Carlo Gesualdo (1560 - 1613)
  • Sleep, fleshly birth - Ramsey
  • Man, dreame no more - Peerson
  • Nunc Dimittis - Arvo Pärt
  • Final (Hommage à Igor Stravinsky) - Naji Hakim (played by Alexander Mason)
  • Lo! the full, final sacrifice - Gerald Finzi
  • Geistliches Lied - Brahms

Course 3

Thursday 15th - Friday 23rd July, Eton College

Director: Ben Parry

Evensong at Jesus College, Cambridge (Tuesday 20th July)

  • Hymne a la Vierge - Villette
  • Responses: Paul Spicer
  • Psalm: 9.1–12 (A.H. Mann)
  • Canticles: in G - Howells
  • Anthem: For Lo, I Raise Up - Stanford

Broadcast of Choral Evensong (Wednesday 21st July)

  • Introit: Let all mortal flesh - Bairstow
  • Responses: Bernard Rose
  • Psalm: 139 (Ben Parry)
  • Canticles: in B minor - Blair
  • Anthem: The Wilderness - Wesley
  • Hymn: O Love divine, how sweet thou art

Hymn 

Recital in Eton College Chapel (Thursday 22nd July)
Repertoire from Jesus College and broadcast plus:

  • Selections from Requiem - Victoria
  • When David heard - Thomas Weelkes
  • Alleluia I heard a voice - Thomas Weelkes
  • O Lord Grant the king - Thomas Weelkes
  • Hosanna to the Son of David - Thomas Weelkes

Course 4

Saturday 24th - Sunday 1st August, Eton College

Director: Ralph Allwood with Tim Johnson as assistant

Choral Evensong at St George's Chapel, Windsor, directed by Timothy Byram-Wigfield
(Thursday 29th July)

  • Introit: I sat down under His shadow - Edward Bairstow
  • Responses: Tomkins
  • Psalms 142, 143
  • Canticles: Edington Service - Grayston Ives
  • Anthem: Bring us, O Lord God - William Harris
  • Hymn: 134, Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom

Celebration Evensong for 30th year of courses (Friday 30th July)

  • Introit: I sat down under His shadow - Edward Bairstow
  • Responses: Thomas Tomkins
  • Psalms: 149, 150
  • Canticles: St Paul's Service - Herbert Howells
  • Anthem: Blest pair of Sirens - Hubert Parry
  • Hymn: 5, All creatures of our God and King

Recital in Eton College Chapel (Saturday 31st July):

  • CANCELLED

Sunday Worship in Eton College Chapel (Sunday 1 August)

  • Ego sum panis - Esquivel
  • Hymn: All creatures of our God and King
  • Anthem: I sat down - Bairstow
  • Hymn: Come, ye thankful people, come
  • Psalm: 145.13–21
  • Anthem: Panis Angelicus - César Franck
  • Anthem: Verily, verily I say to you - Tallis
  • Hymn: Guide me O thou great Redeemer

Course 5

Monday 2nd - Tuesday 10th August, Trinity College, Cambridge

Director: Ralph Allwood with Howard Ionascu as assistant

Choral Evensong at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, with David Skinner (Sunday 8th August)

  • Introit: In manus tuas, Domine - Thomas Tallis
  • Responses: William Byrd
  • Psalms 41, 42, 43
  • Canticles: Second Service - William Byrd
  • Anthem: Videte miraculum - Thomas Tallis
  • Hymn: 162, Love of the Father, love of God the Son (Orlando Gibbons)

Recital in Trinity Chapel (Monday 9th August)

  • Orbis, patrator, optime - Gabriel Jackson
  • Three Shakespeare Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Videte miraculum - Thomas Tallis
  • In manus tuas, Domine - Tallis
  • Blessed city, heavenly Salem - Edward Bairstow
  • This worldes Joie - Arnold Bax
  • Surge propera amica mea - Guerrero

Course 6

(Organists' Course)

Wednesday 11th - Thursday 19th August, Merton and The Queen's Colleges, Oxford

Director: Ralph Allwood

Choral Evensong at St Alban's Abbey, with Owen Rees (Tuesday 17th August)

  • Introit: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit - Thomas Tallis
  • Responses: Bernard Rose
  • Psalm: 89
  • Canticles: Murrill in E
  • Anthem: And I saw a new heaven - Edgar Bainton
  • Hymn: 80ii, Glorious things of thee are spoken

Recital at The Queen's College (Wednesday 18th August)

  • Rejoice in the Lamb - Benjamin Britten
  • And I saw a new heaven - Edgar Bainton
  • I thank You God for most this amazing day - Eric Whitacre
  • Nachtlied - Max Reger
  • Salve Regina - Victoria
  • Lord, thou hast been our refuge - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Course 7

Friday 20th - Saturday 28th August, Durham

Director: Ralph Allwood

Durham Cathedral Evensong (Thursday 26th August)

  • Introit: Verily I say unto you - Thomas Tallis
  • Responses: William Smith
  • Psalm 119. 145 - 176
  • Canticles: Dorian Service - Thomas Tallis
  • Anthem: Jehova quam multi sunt hostes - Henry Purcell

Recital (Friday 27th August)

  • Sleep - Whitacre
  • Take him, earth, for cherishing - Herbert Howells
  • Faire is the heaven - William Harris
  • Crucifixus - Lotti
  • Salve Regina - Victoria
  • Ave Maria - Anton Bruckner

Course Dates

This year's courses have now all finished: read how they went in the course report.

As soon as next year's dates are confirmed, we will publish them on this website and on our facebook page.