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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble) and Ferio Saxophone Quartet
| Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 |
| Sarah Rimkus, arr. Sarah Rimkus - Mater Dei |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Weil du mein Gott und Vater bist, from Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138 |
| George Frideric Handel, arr. Iain Farrington - Water Music Suite no. 3 in G major, HWV 350, Minuet II |
| Andrea Gabrieli, arr. Freddie Crowley - O salutaris hostia |
| Johann Michael Bach - Nun treten wir ins neue Jahr |
| Johann Michael Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Ich weiss das main Erlöser lebt |
| Owain Park - Miserere after Allegri |
| Interval |
| Henry Purcell, arr. Iain Farrington - Rondeau from Abdelazer Suite, Z. 570 |
| Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Selig sind die Toten, from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Zion hört die Wächter singen, from Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 |
| Johann Michael Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil |
| Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit, from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11 |
| Johann Christoph Bach - Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben |
| James MacMillan, arr. Freddie Crowley - Christus vincit |
| Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Das Wort ward Fleisch und wohnet unter uns , from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11 |
An alternative proposal is a one hour programme which features an arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s five-movement cantata In Windsor Forest, which he based on music from his opera Sir John in Love. The arrangement, written by the Consort’s Director Freddie Crowley, was specially commissioned by Chiltern Arts with the support of the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, and first performed by Corvus and Ferio at the Chiltern Arts Festival in February 2022, in celebration of Vaughan Williams’s 150th year. The arrangement capitalises on the saxophone’s immense timbral adaptability to recreate the sonorities and moods of the full orchestral version in a chamber music context: from the nimble woodwind of the first and third movements (“The Conspiracy” and “Falstaff & the Fairies”) and the lyrical string melodies of the fourth (“Wedding Chorus”), to the second movement’s stabbing percussive chords (“Drinking Song”) and the brassy march of the fifth (“Epilogue”).
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 |
| Andrea Gabrieli, arr. Freddie Crowley - O salutaris hostia |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Zion hört die Wächter singen, from Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 |
| Owain Park - Miserere after Allegri |
| Johann Michael Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Ich weiss dass mein Erlöser lebt |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Freddie Crowley - Weil du mein Gott und Vater bist, from Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138 |
| James MacMillan, arr. Freddie Crowley - Christus vincit |
| Heinrich Schütz, arr. Freddie Crowley - Das Wort ward Fleisch und wohnet unter uns , from Geistliche Chor-Music, op. 11 |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Freddie Crowley - In Windsor Forest |
