Music Programme 2008

Saturday 31st May at 7.30pm St Chad’s Roman Catholic Cathedral Choir, Birmingham, directed by Professor David Saint. Motets from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England: Byrd: Cibavit Eos Tallis: O Sacrum convivium Dering: Panis Angelicus Philips: Ascendit Deus Italy and Spain: Palestrina: Super Flumina Soriano: Regina Caeli Victoria: Ave Maria Monteverdi: Cantate Domino INTERVAL Bruckner: Ave Maria Handel: Comfort ye & Every Valley From Messiah Mozart: Laudate (Mass in C minor) Rheinberger: Abendlied Bach: Lobet
Sunday 15th June at 7.30pm The Elgar Chorale, directed by Donald Hunt. Coronation Anthems by Handel - Zadok the Priest - Let thy right hand be strengthened Fantasia and Fugue in c JS Bach Singet dem Herrn – J S Bach Elgar motets: Ave verum corpus, Ave maria, Ecce sacerdos Organ: Chason de Nuit, Chanson de Matin Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare songs and Valiant for truth, Lord, thou has been our refuge and Coronation Hymn
Saturday 28th June at 7.30pm The Wyre Forest Young Voices directed by Geoff Weaver. *The Balm of the Baroque* Movements from "Stabat Mater" by Pergolesi Laudamus Te by Vivaldi (From The Gloria) Cantate Domino by Monteverdi Folksongs arrangements African songs Contemporary songs and arrangements by Bob Chilcott Solos and duets will include a duet from "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" by Monteverdi and a flute sonata by Handel, as well as songs by Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Soloists will include Naomi Berry, Adele Julier, Lucy Taylor, Suzanne Webb, Stuart Orme
Saturday 5th July at 7.30pm Celebrity Singers Concert: Henry Hurford (Baritone) , Peter Cowdrey (Composer and Pianist) Catherine Benson (Soprano) accompanied by John Jenkin Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim Heart, the seat of soft delight Cowdrey: The Lucy Poems Mozart: Oiseaux, si tous les ans Dans un bois solitaire Als Lasie die Briefe vesbranate An Chloe Crudel, perche finora (from The Marriage of Figaro) Johnny Hereford: Stay inside, keep still, The Road, Quiet Nights, The Pen, Romanticism. Movement Richard Strauss: Die Georgine Schlechtes Wetter Schlagende Herzen Charles Ives: 4 Songs Vaughan Williams: It was a lover and his lass.
Sunday 13th July at 7.30pm Serenata Wind Ensemble. Ein musiklisches Snookerspiel – Gary Carpenter Petite Symphonie – Gounod interval Figures in a Landscape – Jonathan Dove Serenade – Howard Blake Intermezzo arr Skirrow – Brahms
Saturday 26th July Imperial Brass Quintet Trumpet Voluntary - John Stanley Suite from Water Music - Handel Suite King Arthur - Wes Warren Carmen Suite - Bizet: 1. Habanera. Sequidille Canzonet. Toreador's Song Pavanne pour une infante defunte - Ravel arr.Taylor A Suite of Minatures - John Griswold Canzona Bergamasc - Scheidt Sketches for Brass Quintet - Bob Birch Royal Fanfare - Josquin de Pres Mahattan - Rodgers & Hart arr. Roberts Cleopha – Joplin Chanson de Matin - Elgar arr. Harvey Music Hall Suite - Horovitz: 1. Soft Shoe Shuffle Les Girls Girl With The Flaxen Hair – Debussy Honey Pie - Lennon/Macartney arr. Bob Willis Tamourin – Gossec A Foggy day/Nice Work if you can Get It - Gershwin Puttin on the Ritz - arr. Roberts The Saints' Hallelujah - arr. Henderson
Saturday 27th September at 4.30pm COME AND SING HANDEL'S MESSIAH - PERFORMANCE A day long workshop followed by an evening performance of Handel’s Messiah Accompanied by Volante Strings and John Jenkin (Organ). Day led by John Swindells
Friday 10th October at 7.30pm The Vellmar Orchestra of Germany directed by Gerhard Forster Charles Avison Concert Grosso Mozart: Nocturnal Serenade Albinoni Trumpet Concerto in D Bridge Suite for Strings Vaughan Williams “A Charterhouse Suite”.