This is a provisional list of music we hope to be part of this year’s choral courses. It may change at any time.
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
- Psalms 78: Attendite, popule
- Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Arvo Pärt
- Anthem: Lo! the full, final sacrifice - Gerald Finzi
- 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 Part
- Lo! the full, final sacrifice - Gerald Finzi
- Geistliches Lied - Brahms
- Two organ pieces
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
- Canticles: Howells in G
- Anthem: Heaven - Ben Parry
Broadcast of Choral Evensong (Wednesday 21st July)
- Introit: Remember not, Lord, our offences - Purcell
- Responses: Bernard Rose
- Psalm 106
- Canticles: Blair in B minor
- Anthem: The Wilderness - Wesley
Hymn
Recital in Eton College Chapel (Thursday 22nd July)
Repertoire from Jesus College and broadcast plus:
- When David heard - Thomas Weelkes
- Alleluia I heard a voice - Thomas Weelkes
- O Lord Grant the king - Thomas Weelkes
- Hosanna to the Son - 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: Bairstow in D
- 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: Miserere nostri - Tallis
- Responses: Thomas Tomkins
- Psalms 147, 148, 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)
- I sat down under His shadow - Edward Bairstow
- Blest pair of Sirens - Hubert Parry
- Hymne a la Vierge - Pierre Villette
- Bring us, O Lord God - William Harris
- Sancte Deus - Thomas Tallis
- Magnificat from St Paul's Service - Herbert Howells
- Miserere nostri - Tallis
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 (vv. 145 - 176)
- Canticles: Dorian Service - Thomas Tallis
- Anthem: Jehova quam multi sunt hostes - Henry Purcell
- Hymn: 16, Angel-voices ever singing
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
