Planning Ideas
Baroque music for choir and saxophones
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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble) and Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Programme to include:
Programme to include:
| Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria in excelsis Deo, from Gloria in D major, RV 589 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Zion hört die Wächter singen, from Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 |
| George Frideric Handel - Selection of choruses from Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 |
| Johann Michael Bach - Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil |
| Heinrich Schütz - Jauchzet dem Herren, SWV 36 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 |
Corvus Consort + Music on the Edge
The Corvus Consort presents an improvisatory exploration of Renaissance soundworlds in collaboration with Music on the Edge.
Read the introduction to this programme... Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble) and Music on the Edge (saxophone and flute)
Example hour-long programme:
Read the introduction to this programme... Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble) and Music on the Edge (saxophone and flute)
Example hour-long programme:
| Plainchant - Ave maris stella |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Ave maris stella |
| William Byrd - Ave verum corpus |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - O vos omnes |
| Improvisation - Saxophone, Flute and Church Bells |
| Thomas Tallis - Sancte Deus |
| Orlande de Lassus - Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selection) |
| Cristóbal de Morales - O magnum mysterium |
| Plainchant - Kyrie De Angelis |
Programmes for Lent: Reproaches, Lamentation and Penitence
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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
A choice of two programmes: full-length concert or hour-long programme
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This full-length concert programme explores how composers from the Renaissance to the present day have responded to Lenten themes of repentance, lamentation and petitions for mercy.
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Popule meus |
| Freddie Crowley - Stabat Mater |
| Vicente Lusitano - Emendemus in melius |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence |
| Interval |
| John Sanders - The Reproaches |
| William Byrd - Ne irascaris, Domine |
| James MacMillan - Miserere |
Hour-long programme
This hour-long programme juxtaposes Renaissance and 20th-century soundworlds by interspersing Francis Poulenc’s atmospheric Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence with works by Renaissance composers Thomas Tallis and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
| Thomas Tallis - Sancte Deus |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Timor et tremor |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Recessit pastor noster |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Vinea mea electa |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: O vos omnes |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Tenebrae factae sunt |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Ecce quomodo moritur justus |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Tristis et anima mea |
| Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus |
Some other works that could be featured in similar programmes:
| Robert White - Miserere mei, Deus |
| Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah |
| Edgar Day - When I survey the wondrous cross |
"Eastern Pictures"
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Louise Thomson (harp) and the Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
| Josef Rheinberger - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen |
| Gustav Holst - Two Eastern Pictures |
| Choir only - details to be agreed at the time of booking |
| Fisher Tull - Two Poems |
| Franz Schubert - Ave Maria |
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Dalwyn Henshall - Adagio Cantabile, from Three Welsh Dances (solo harp) |
| Imogen Holst - Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow |
| Interval |
| Gustav Holst - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Third Group) |
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Marcel Grandjany - Rhapsodie (solo harp) |
| Gabriel Fauré - Pie Jesu, from Requiem in D minor, op. 48 |
| Patrick Hadley - I Sing of a Maiden |
| Choir only - details to be agreed at the time of booking. |
| Gustav Holst - Dirge and Hymeneal |
| Franz Schubert - Psalm 23 |
| Benjamin Britten, arr. Freddie Crowley - A New Year Carol |
Renaissance Symbolism: Music and Astronomy
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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
Programme created and first performed for the Kings Lynn Festival 2019 for the festival theme of 'Music and Astronomy'.
| Anon. - Ave maris stella (plainchant) |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Ave maris stella |
| Orlande de Lassus - Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selection) |
| Reading or instrumental item |
| Orlande de Lassus - Exsultet caelum mare |
| Orlande de Lassus - Aurora lucis rutilat |
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh' darein (chorale) |
| James MacMillan - Ave maris stella |
| Reading or instrumental item |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Viri Galilaei |
| William Byrd - Viri Galilaei |
| Anon. - Viri Galilaei (plainchant) |