Planning Ideas
Baroque music for choir and saxophones
Programme to include:
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Zion hört die Wächter singen, from Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 |
| Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria (1st movement) |
| Henry Purcell - Come, ye sons of art |
Programmes for Lent: Reproaches, Lamentation and Penitence
Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
A choice of two programmes: full-length concert or hour-long programme
——————————Full-length concert programme
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"
| 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 |
|
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) |
|
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
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) |