Carol Service, St Clement’s Church, Cambridge
Director Colin Danskin; Organ Hugh Johns
We were pleased to be able to contribute to the first carol service at St Clement’s Church in over thirty years.
English Madrigals & Folksongs, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Conductor Louisa Denby
Programme
Vaughan Williams – Selection from Five English Folksongs
Holst – Selection from Six Choral Folk Songs
Pearsall – Lay a Garland
Morley – My Bonny Lass
Wilbye – Draw on sweet night
Vautor – Sweet suffolk owl
Whittaker – Bobby Shaftoe
Response to our Howells concert.
Howells’ Requiem and other music from around the British Isles
Holy Trinity Church, Privett, Hampshire
in aid of the Churches Conservation Trust
Conductor Jonathan Willcocks
Programme
Vaughan Williams – Selection from Five English Folksongs
Holst – Selection from Six Choral Folk Songs
Britten – Flower Songs Op. 47
MacMillan – Selection from The Strathclyde Motets
Stanford – Three Latin Motets
Howells – Requiem
Holst – Nunc dimittis
Willcocks – Lacrymosa
Residency at St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Conductor Louisa Denby; Organ Tim Parsons
Service repertoire
Ayleward Responses
Leighton Responses
Rose Responses
Wood – Evening Service No. 2 in Eb
Stanford – Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in C
Gibbons – Short Service
Howells – St Paul’s Evening Service
Britten – Te deum
Walton – Jubilate Deo
Mendelssohn – O for the wings of a dove
Parry – Blest Pair of Sirens
Stanford – Justorum anime
Joubert – O Lord, the maker of al thing
Balfour Gardiner – Evening Hymn
Concert repertoire
Finnish trad. – Alleloila
Stanford – Beati quorum via
MacMillan – O Radiant Dawn
Holst – Nunc dimittis
Vaughan Williams – Selection from Five Choral Folksongs
Simmons – Flying
Aboriginal – Bele mama
Greene – O Clap your Hands
Pearsall – Lay a Garland
Morley – My Bonny Lass
Britten – The Evening Primrose
Harris – Faire is the Heaven
Trad. – One more time
The residency included workshops led by nationally-renowned animateur and vocal leader Amy Bebbington, and the Choir gave a community concert in the Chapel in Trefin Village, in order to raise funds for its continued refurbishment and to demonstrate its potential as a venue for the Arts.
‘From Lent to Pentecost’ – a Sequence of Renaissance Polyphony
St Stephen’s Church, Rochester Row, Westminster
Director Louisa Denby
Programme
Byrd – Miserere mei
Palestrina – Scapulis suis
Victoria – O vos omnes
Victoria – Pueri Hebraeorum
Marenzio – O rex gloriae
Byrd – Ave verum
Morley – Eheu sustulerunt
Philips – Tristitia vestra
Byrd – Viri Galilei
Philips – Ascendit Deus
Palestrina – Confirma hoc Deus
Byrd – Non vos relinquam orphanos
Palestrina – Alma redepemtoris mater
‘American Roots’
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Conductor Louisa Denby; Piano Elis Reed
Programme
Tippett – Five Negro Spirituals
Copland – Four Motets
Lauridsen – Nocturnes
Whitacre – Animal Crackers
As a result of this concert all members of the choir were offered the opportunity to be part of the one-to-a-part chorus for a professional production of Handel’s Atalanta, performed by Cambridge Handel Opera at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, in April/May 2013.
St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London
with Chesterton Baroque
in aid of The Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Conductor Louisa Denby
Our contribution to the programme included:
Vivaldi – Magnificat RV610
Handel – Utrecht Te Deum
Music for Lent, Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge
Conductors Oliver Hancock & Louisa Denby
A concert very much of two halves: the first half consisted of music from English Renaissance composers, including Robert White’s emotionally-charged setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah; the second half was a little bit different, with works by later French composers, ending with Messiaen’s haunting O sacrum convivium!
‘An Epiphany Journey’
Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
Conductors Patrick Allies & Louisa Denby; Minister The Rev James Gardom
Readers Richard Blakemore & Morvern Tomison
Programme
Gustav Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter
Francisco Guerrero – Los Reyes siguen la’strella
Francisco Guerrero – Ibant Magi
Peter Cornelius – The Three Kings
Trad. Polish, arr. Malcolm Sargent – Star in the South
Thomas Attwood – O God, who by the leading of a star
Orlando Gibbons – Almighty and Everlasting God
Ben Parry – And is it true?
Eduardo Falú – Villancico de la Falta de Fe
Johannes Eccard – When to the temple Mary went
Richard Sheppard – Hodie beata virgo Maria
Orlando Gibbons – Nunc dimittis from Short Service