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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble) and Ferio Saxophone Quartet

Giovanni Gabrieli - O magnum mysterium

Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Zion hört die Wächter singen, from Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140

Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Nun ich weiss du wirst mir stillen, from Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht, BWV 105

Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Iain Farrington - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (sax quartet only)

Tomás Luis de Victoria - O quam gloriosum (choir only)

Arcangelo Corelli, arr. Iain Farrington - Adagio from Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, Christmas Concerto (sax quartet only)

Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit, from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11

Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Ich weiss das mein Erlöser lebt, from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11

Interval

Henry Purcell, arr. Iain Farrington - Rondeau from Abdelazer Suite, Z. 570 (sax quartet only)

Henry Purcell - Remember not, Lord, our offences (choir only)

William Byrd, arr. Iain Farrington - Pavane and Gigue no. 2 in A minor, Earl of Salisbury (sax quartet only)

William Byrd - Ave verum corpus (choir only)

Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Selig sind die Toten, from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11

Johann Michael Bach - Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil

Johann Christoph Bach - Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben (choir only)

Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Weil du mein Gott und Vater bist, from Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138

Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

The Corvus Consort presents an improvisatory exploration of Renaissance soundworlds in collaboration with Music on the Edge.

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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

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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)

A choice of two programmes: full-length concert or hour-long programme

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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)