9
July
SATURDAY
7:00pm
VOCES8: Stardust
Choral music celebrating regeneration
VOCES8: Stardust
Choral music celebrating regeneration
9
July
SATURDAY
7:00pm
MUSIC
This wide-ranging recital connects natural and spiritual regeneration, recognising loss, beauty, love and joy. Music from the Renaissance to the present day comes from England (Byrd, Britten, Parry and Dove), Germany (Schütz, Schubert and Rheinberger), Scandinavia and Iceland (Alfvén and Sigurbjörnsson). Jazz standard arrangements come from the USA as does Christopher Tin’s work Wild Swans that was written for the group, and Taylor Scott Davis’s 2021 commission that gives us the programme’s title.
PROGRAMME
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Laudibus in Sanctis
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Selig sind die Toten
Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Kyrie from the Mass in E-Flat
Nat ‘King’ Cole arr. Jim Clements
Straighten Up and Fly Right
arr. Alexander L’Estrange
Come Fly with Me (to the Moon)
Christopher Tin (b.1976)
Wild Swans (Commission for VOCES8)
Taylor Scott Davis (b.1980)
Stardust (Commission for VOCES8)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Wild Swans (Commission for VOCES8)
- INTERVAL -
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
My Soul there is a Country
Jonathan Dove (b.1959)
Vertue (Commission for VOCES8)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Evening Primrose
Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)
Aftonen
Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson (1938-2013)
Heyr, hymn smi∂ur
Mumford & Sons arr. Clements
Timshel
Jerome Kern arr. Jim Clements
I Won’t Dance
Al Jolson arr. Jim Clements
Me and My Shadow
ARTIST
VENUE
St Leonard's Church · Hythe
Address
The Parish of St Leonard, Hythe
Oak Walk
Hythe
Kent
CT21 5DN
History
The ancient parish church of Hythe, St Leonard's has overlooked this historic Cinque Ports Town for nearly a thousand years. St Leonard's is also known as "the church with the bones," on account of its famous ossuary containing a large collection of human bones.
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