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Course 1

Tue 5 July - Wed 13 July 2011 at Eton

Evensong in St Albans Cathedral 11 July 5pm

  • Responses:  William Byrd
  • Canticles: The Short Service Orlando Gibbons
  • Anthem: Blessed City Bairstow

Recital in Eton Chapel on 12th July (‘Stars and Heaven’)

  • Laetentur Coeli (Byrd)  
  • Heaven (Ben Parry)
  • Seek him that maketh the seven stars (Jonathan Dove)
  • And I saw a new heaven (Bainton)
  • Faire is the heaven (Harris)
  • Videntes Stellam (Poulenc)
  • Coelos Ascendit Hodie (Stanford)
  • Rorate Coeli (Palestrina)
  • Almighty God, which by the leading of a star (Bull)

Course 2

Thursday 14th July  - Friday 22nd July  2011 at Eton

Choral Evensong with Daniel Hyde at Magdalen on Tue 19 July

  • Introit: Libera nos, salva nos 1 John Sheppard
  • Responses: Bernard Rose
  • Psalms 98, 99
  • Canticles Wood in F for double choir and organ
  • Anthem: Never weather-beaten sail Parry
  • Hymn: The duteous day now closeth

BBC Broadcast Wed 20 July

  • Introit: Never weather-beaten sail Parry 

  • Responses Bernard Rose

  • Psalm 104 Walmisley/Edwards

  • Hymn: Dear Lord and Father

  • Magnificat Gerald Finzi 

  • Nunc dimittis Gustav Holst

  • Anthem:  At the round earth’s imagined corners Parry 

  • Hymn: All creatures of our God and King

Recital in Eton Thursday 21st July

  • Libera nos, salva nos 1 John Sheppard
  • Never weather-beaten sail Parry
  • Song for Athene Tavener
  • Ave Maria Bruckner
  • Ave Maria Parsons
  • O Magnum Mysterium Campkin

Course 3

Sat 23rd July - Sun 31st July 2011 at Eton with organists 

Choral Evensong at Kings Cambridge on 29th July

  • Introit: Candidi facta sunt  (Tallis)
  • Responses Herbert Sumsion
  • Psalm 142, 143             
  • Canticles Stanford in A 
  • Anthem Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes Purcell 
  • Hymn:  Thy hand, O God, has guided 

Recital in Eton Sat 30th July

  • Nisi Dominus (from 1610 Vespers) Monteverdi 
  • A New Song James  Macmillan
  • I was glad Hubert Parry
  • The spirit of the Lord Elgar
  • The Twelve Walton
  • The Lord is my shepherd Berkeley
  • Teach me, O Lord William Byrd
  • O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht J.S Bach

Course 4

Mon 1st Aug - Tue 9th Aug 2011 (overlapping with Cheltenham course) at Cambridge (with organists)

Choral Evensong in Caius Sun 7th August w/Geoffrey Webber

  • Introit: Haec Dies William Byrd
  • Responses: Byrd
  • Psalm: 85.8-13
  • Canticles: Dyson in D         
  • Anthem: Komm, Jesu, komm, J.S. Bach in the Bach motets set 
  • Hymn: NEH 431 

Choral Evensong at St John’s Mon 8th August RA

  • Welcome and Responses Thomas Tomkins

  • Psalm 41, 42, 43 Ralph Allwood, Samuel Wesley

  • Magnificat (Gloucester Service) Herbert Howells

  • Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester Service) Herbert Howells

  • Preces and Collects Thomas Tomkins

  • A Festival Anthem Lennox Berkeley

  • Hymn - Dear Lord and Father C. Hubert, H. Parry

Concert

  • Haec dies William Byrd

  • Litanei Franz Schubert arr. Allwood

  • O vos omnes Paul Mealor

  • Magnificat in D George Dyson

  • And I saw a new heaven Edward Bainton

  • Komm, Jesu, komm J.S. Bach

  • Heavenly Harry Connick Jr arr Jamie Burton

  • Sound the Trumpet Henry Purcell

  • Kiss the girl from 'The Little Mermaid'

  • Say, where is he from 'Christus' Felix Mendelssohn

  • Samson Regina Spektor

  • Can't help lovin' dat man from 'Showboat' Kern; Hammerstein

  • Clapping Music Steve Reich

  • Theme from 'Pomp and Circumstance' Edward Elgar (arrangement)

Course 5

Sat 6th Aug - Sun 14 Aug (overlapping with Cambridge course) at Cheltenham

Recital in Tewkesbury Abbey 12 August 2.45pm
  • Weelkes:  Hosanna to the son of David
  • Byrd:  Justorum animae 
  • Tomkins:  When David heard
  • Mendelssohn:  Prelude & Fugue in C minor op37 no.1 (Organ Solo)
  • Elgar:  The Spirit of the Lord 
  • Stanford:  Beati quorum via
  • Rubbra:  Magnificat in A flat
  • Howells:  Rhapsody no.1 in D flat (Organ Solo)
  • Howells:  I love all beauteous things 
  • Lauridsden:  O magnum mysterium
  • Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God
  • Finzi:  God is gone up 

Saturday 13th August at Worcester Cathedral

  • Introit: Hear my prayer Henry Purcell
  • Responses Herbert Howells
  • Psalm 24, 25 Johnson, Howells (in Bb minor)
  • Isaiah 55.1-7
  • Canticles: Rubbra in A flat (or a Howells if we want it to be all Howells . . .)
  • Mark 16.1-8
  • Anthem: I love all beauteous things Howells
  • Hymn: All my hope on God is founded

Course 6

Sunday 14th August to Monday 22 August at St Chad’s and St John’s Colleges, Durham

Evensong in Durham Cathedral Thursday 18 August

  • Introit Loquebantur, variis linguis Thomas Tallis
  • Responses Matthew O’Donovan (assume there are 54 in the choir folders)
  • Psalm 93, 94  
  • Canticles: St Paul’s Service Herbert Howells
  • Anthem: Vox dicentis clama  Edward Naylor
  • Hymn: The Day Thou gavest Lord 

Broadcast on Sunday morning 21st August

  • No music agreed yet

Recital Durham Cathedral Sun 21st August

  • Loquebantur, variis linguis Thomas Tallis
  • Christe, qui lux es Robert Whyte
  • …..which was the son of…. Arvo Part
  • Vox dicentis clama Edward Naylor
  • There is an old belief Hubert Parry
  • Die zwei blauen Augen from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Mahler arr Clytus Gottwald. Top shelf in the songroom.

Course 7

Tuesday 23rd August – Wednesday 31st August 2011 at Oxford (Merton or Queen’s, Oxford) 

Evensong at Queen’s College, Oxford with Ben Nicholas 29th August 

  • Introit: A Prayer of Henry VI Gabriel Jackson
  • Responses: Bernard Rose
  • Psalm 142, 143 Barnby/Wesley
  • Canticles: Bob Chilcott (written for Downing) 
  • Anthem: One foot in Eden still, I stand Nicholas Maw
  • Hymn: Glorious things of thee are spoken 

Recital in Merton Tue 30th

  • Der Mensch lebt bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit Max Reger
  • Warum ist das Licht gegeben Johannes Brahms
  • One foot in Eden still, I stand Nicholas Maw
  • This worldes Joie Arnold Bax
  • Surge propera amica mea Guerrero
  • Lux aurumque Eric Whitacre
  • Sancte Deus Thomas Tallis 

 

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