Saturday 17 September at 8 pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Rd, Kew
Subscription Concert 3
Most of the works making up this program are setting of verses from The Song of Songs, also known as The Song of Solomon. But other love poetry, in English, Italian and French, provides the text for Newcastle composer Andrew Robbie’s Close Your Eyes, here receiving its first performance.
PROGRAM
Antoine Brumel (c.1460-c1513) Sicut lilium inter spinas
Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560) Quam pulchra es
Clemens non Papa (c.1510/15-1555/6) Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) Nigra sum, sed formosa
Pulchra es amica mea
Veni, dilecte mi
Richard Dering (c.1580-1630) In lectulo meo:
Indica Mihi
Vidi speciosam
Quae est ista
Melchior Franck (c.1579-1639) Du bist alle Dinge, schön
Meine Schwester, liebe Braut
Ich sucht des Nachts
Andrew Robbie (b. 1979) Close your eyes (world première)
1: Lullaby
2: Sfogava con le stelle
3: Je m’en vois
Peter Campbell (b. 1964) A Wedding Triptych
1: Arise, my Love, and Come Away
2: Weiβt du, ich will mich schleichen
3: What is the Glory Far Above?
Healey Willan (1880-1968) Motets in Honour of our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary
1: I Beheld Her, Beautiful as a Dove
2: Fair in Face
3: Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One
SINGERS
| Soprano Carol Veldhoven Fiona Seers Kathryn Pisani Maria Pisani Claerwen Jones |
Alto Jenny Mathers Yi Wen Chin Niki Ebacioni Rebecca Woods |
Tenor Peter Campbell Matthew Thomson Vaughan McAlley Stuart Tennant |
Bass Andrew Murray Samuel Allchurch Alistair Clark Kieran Rowe |