Recent Concerts of the Chandos Singers

The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath, Saturday 22nd March 2014 at 7.30

Choral works by the Czech composer

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) :

Miserere   ZWV 57

     Sub tuum praesidium    ZWV 157 no.3

Agnus Dei (Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis; newly edited) ZWV 17.5

4 Anthems to the Blessed Virgin Mary (newly edited):

          1.Alma Redemptoris   ZWV 127

      2.Ave Regina    ZWV 128 no.2

    3.Regina Coeli   ZWV 130      

                     4.Salve Regina   ZWV 140                       

Te Deum   ZWV 145

Soloists:

Katharine Adams,

Alison Alexander, Debbie Warren

Simon Caldwell

Hugh Osborne (Oboe)

Dawn Chalmers (Clarinet)

Frank Thynne, Simon Caldwell (Violin)

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath, Saturday 7th December 2013 at 7.30

Monteverdi : Christmas Vespers :

Dixit Dominus

    Confitebor Tibi

    Beatus Vir

Laudate Pueri

Laudate Dominum

Christe Redemptor Omnium

Magnificat

together with

Monteverdi : Rutilante in Nocte

Monteverdi : Angelus ad Pastores Ait

Monteverdi : Beatus Vir  (1640)

Soloists:

Julia Rushworth, Katharine Adams, Katherine Lush

Alison Alexander, Dawn Chalmers

Cameron Neylon, Dominic Singleton

Robert Jack, Simon Caldwell

Angela LeGrice, Mandy Shaw (Recorders)

Hugh Osborne (Oboe)

Frank Thynne, Simon Caldwell (Violin)

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

Tickets from Bath Festivals : sold out

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Roper Theatre, West Wing, Bath, Friday 4th October at 7.30

Two 20-minute slots in a Showcase concert, where another choir also performs two 20-minute slots

Anon 1163 : Music for the foundation of Notre Dame

Ireland : The Hills

Anon 1309 : Agnus Dei (for the beginning of the Papacy in Avignon)

Gesualdo : Gaudeamus omnes

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi  :  Double, Double, Toil

C.N.Lewis : The Walrus and the Carpenter

Soloists in The Walrus:

Julia Rushworth and Paul Feldwick (Erudite Footnotes)

Simon Caldwell (Minstrel)

Paul Feldwick (Piano)

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath, Saturday 6th July 2013 at 7.30

Summer Concert marking

the 850th anniversary of the foundation of Notre Dame Cathedral,

the 400th anniversary of the killer-Prince Gesualdo's death,

and the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation

Anon 1163 : plainsong and polyphony : Vidi mare bestiam and Bestia quam vidi

Gesualdo Motets:

Ave dulcissima

Ave Sanctorum (completed by MH in 2003)

Deus refugium

Gaudeamus

Peccantem me

Reminiscere

and

Ralph Vaughan Williams : Silence and Music

John Ireland : The Hills

Gerald Finzi : White-flowering days

Edmund Rubbra  :  Salutation

and

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi  :  Double, Double, Toil

Soloists:

Alison Alexander, Debbie Warren,

Julia Rushworth, Katharine Adams,

Simon Caldwell

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath, Saturday 23rd March 2013 at 7.30

Gretchaninov : Passion Week

Preceded by Renaissance Motets related to the Annunciation:

Plainsong : Ave Maria (Ambrosian rhythm)

Alessandro Grandi : O quam tu pulchra es

Hans Leo Hassler : Dixit Maria

Jacob Handl : Ecce concipies

Orlando Lassus : Alma Redemptoris

Luca Marenzio : Gabriel Angelus

Jan Sweelinck : Ecce virgo concipiet

Mikołaj Zieliński : Ecce Virgo

Soloists:

Alison Alexander, Julia Rushworth

Simon Caldwell, Paul Feldwick

Michael Spence (bassoon)

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath, Saturday 8th December 2012 at 7.30

       Katharine Adams : Soprano (MacMillan)

Julia Rushworth : Soprano (Gabrieli)

Mandy Shaw : Alto (MacMillan)

Simon Caldwell : Bass (MacMillan)

The Chandos Singers

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath, Saturday 7th July 2012 at 7.30

Giovanni Gabrieli  : Jubilate Deo

Britten  :  A.M.D.G. (settings of Gerald Manley Hopkins, 1939)

Rubbra  :  Creature-Songs to Heaven

Sweelinck  :  Ecce prandium

Grieg  :  How fair is Thy face,

Grieg  :  God's Son hath set me free

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Baritone

Gerry Hoddinott  :  Piano

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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 The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath Saturday 31st March 2012 at 7.30

Sweelinck  :  Magnificat

Gretchaninov  :  Liturgia Domestica Op.79

Clare Bayman : Soprano

Cameron Neylon : Tenor

Simon Caldwell : Baritone

Paul Feldwick : Bass

Gerry Hoddinott  :  Piano and Organ

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath :  Saturday 3rd December 2011 at 7.30pm

Victoria  (d.1611) :  4-voice Mass and motet O magnum mysterium

Willaert  and Lauridsen  : O magnum mysterium (motets)

Sweelinck  :  Ecce virgo concipiet

Sweelinck  : Hodie Christus natus est

15th century Spanish chant : Sicut mater consolatur

and seasonal music

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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Thursday to Saturday 17th, 18th and 19th November 2011 at 8pm in The Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath

The Golden Apples

Chandos Singers with members of the Fire Springs storytelling group

Stories and music based on Russian folk-tales.

On Friday 18th November, a comedy-opera, "The Bear" by Malcolm Hill will be staged after the interval,

sung by Julia Rushworth, Simon Caldwell and Paul Feldwick - all of whom sing with the Chandos Singers

"A very humorous account of a Russian farce",

the comedy-opera is loosly based on a one-act play by Chekhov,

whose libretto is enhanced by Gene Tyburn and Katharine Tylko

[ full details of the opera at malcolm-hill.co.uk ]

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath :  Saturday 2nd July 2011 at 7.30pm

Music for the Queen of Heaven

Victoria  (d.1611) :  8-voice Mass and motet Ave Regina

Victoria  (d.1611) :  5-voice motet Ave Regina

together with settings of Ave Regina by:

Ambrosian chant, Lionel Power, La Rue, Guerrero and Lassus

plus

Liszt  (b.1811)  :  Salve Regina

Johannes Ciconia  (d.1411)  :  O Italie

Vincentino  (b.1511)  :  Heu mihi

Willliam Boyce  (b.1711)  :  Turn thee unto me

Heinrich Schütz  :  Ich hebe

Pitoni  :  Cantate Domino

Pearsall  :  Lay a garland

Finzi  :  My spirit sang all day

Hatfield  :  Elibama

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Alison Alexander : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Bass

The Chandos Singers

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath :  Saturday 16th April 2011 at 7.30pm

O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Victoria  :  12-voice setting of Psalm 121 : Laetatus sum

Victoria  :  12-voice Mass: Laetatus sum

Adam Michna  :  Laetatus sum (motet)

Alessandro Scarlatti  :  Laetatus sum (motet)

G.G. Gorczycki  :  Laetatus sum (motet, composed 1725-1730)

Purcell  :  I was glad (Psalm 121)

Boyce  :  I was glad

John Blow  :  O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem (text from Psalm 121)

Thomas Tomkins  :  O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Herbert Howells  :  O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath :  Saturday 27th November 2010 at 7.30pm

Beatus Vir

Claudio Monteverdi  :  Beatus Vir

Adam Michna  :  St. Wenceslas Mass for Christmas (c.1650)

Bartłomiej Pękiel (died 1670) :  Audite mortales

John Sheppard (died 1560)  : Spiritus Sanctus

Kenneth Leighton  :  God's grandeur

Herbert Howells  :  One thing have I desired

Together with

works performed by The Consort of Barber-Surgeons:

Hans Leo Hassler  :  Cantate Domino and Laetentur caeli

John Sheppard (died 1560)  :  Alleluia confitemini, Christ rising and In pace

Wesley  :  Si iniquitates

and solo soprano concerto sung by Julia Rushworth:

Viadana  :  Exaudi me, Domine

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Debbie Warren : Recorder

Simon Caldwell : Violin and Baritone

The Consort of Barber-Surgeons

The Chandos Singers

Conducted by Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath :  Saturday 3rd July 2010 at 7.30pm

Renaissance Masters

John Sheppard (died c.1610) : Christ rising from the dead

Adam Michna  :  Mass for Summer (c.1645) and De Profundis

Heinrich Schutz : Saul

Pierre de la Rue : Ave Regina Caelorum

Eustache du Caurroy : Te Deum (1605)

Josquin des Pres (?) : Regina celi letare

Nicholas Gombert : Quem dicunt homines (1555)

and settings of Renaissance texts:

Waller Goodworth : Ut queant (1906)

Malcolm Hill : Sound-Houses in New Atlantis (2010)

Simon Caldwell  :  Baritone

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath :  Saturday 6 March 2010 at 7.30pm

Music for a Time of Penitence

Adam Michna  :  Mass for Lent (c.1650)

Adam Michna  :  Requiem

Victoria  :  Salve Regina (double choir, c.1592)

Debbie Warren  :  Soprano and Recorder

Simon Caldwell  :  Baritone and Violin

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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St. Bartholomew's Church, Bath :  Saturday 28 November 2009 at 7.30pm

A fund-raising concert on behalf of The Friends of the Royal United Hospital 

2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death and Mendelssohn's birth. Each composer set the words of the Te Deum twice. Haydn's main setting was for the Empress Marie Therese. She frequently attended the Hofburg in Vienna and persuaded her husband (Franz I of Austria) to commission the single-movement work. On the other hand, Mendelssohn's main Te Deum was in many sections and composed for the student choirs of Berlin Singakadmie which he accompanied on the piano. An early work, it contains references to his incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Less than a decade later, Berlioz was asked to provide an Italian vocal overture to Shakespeare's The Tempest. He scored the work for piano and chamber chorus (this is the version Chandos performed), but the piano part was so difficult that soon a version for piano duet was made. By 1830, he had orchestrated the piano parts, enlarged the choir and added a coda, so that it would act as a complimentary work to be performed with his Symphonie Fantastique.

Haydn  :  Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese (1800)

Mendelssohn : Te Deum for two choirs and piano (1820)

Berlioz  :  Fantasie sur la tempête de Shakespeare (1830)

James Durrant  :  Anniversary (1933)

Joonas Kokkonen  :  Mass (1963)

Simon Caldwell  :  Baritone

Gerry Hoddinott  :  Paino

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 18 July 2009 at 7.30pm

Handel  :  The dramatic oratorio Deborah

Colin Hunt  :  Continuo

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Sunday 15th March 2009 at 7.30 pm

Centenary Compilations

Pergolesi (born 1709, birth registered January 1710)

Papacy established in Avignon (March 1309)

Pergolesi and Vivaldi :  Vespro della B.V.M. :

Vivaldi : Beatus vir

Pergolesi : Domine ad adjuvandum

Pergolesi : Dixit Dominus

Pergolesi : Confitebor tibi

Pergolesi : Laudate pueri

Vivaldi : Lauda Jerusalem

Pergolesi : Magnificat

French medieval music : possibly performed March 1309 in Avignon

when Pope Clement V moved the Papacy from Rome to Avignon,

where it would remain for 100 years

Introit, Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Motet : Aucun qui ne sevent / Jure tuis / Maria

Benedicamus Domino

Julia Rushworth  :  Soprano

Simon Caldwell  :  Violin and Bass

Gerry Hoddinott : Organ and harpsichord

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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St. Bartholomew's Church, Bath : Saturday 6th December 2008 at 7.30 pm     

 Concert on Finnish Independence Day

A Tapestry of Voices

Hyvonen : Freedom on Saint Nicholas' Day

Joonas Kokkonen : Agnus Dei

Rautavaara : True and False Unicorn

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Violin and Bass

Gerry Hoddinott : Piano

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 17 July 2008 at 7.30 pm

Music from Central Latin America

Fernando Franco : Salve Regina

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla : Litany BVM

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla : Pater peccavi

Fernando Franco : Magnificat on 1st tone (a 6)

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla : Missa Ego flos campi

Gaspar Fernandez : Tleycantimo choquiliya

Gaspar Fernandez : Xicochi xicochi

Anon (c.1590) : Hanacpachap

Juan de Araujo : Los conflandes de la estleya

Juan Garcia de Zespedes : Convidando esta la noche

also

three pieces for guitar and

Domenico Zipoli : Intrada for organ

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Baritone

Debbie Warren : Recorder

Steve Crompton : Guitar

Malcolm Hill : Conductor and Organ

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St. Bartholomew's Church, Bath : Saturday 15th March 2008 at 7.30 pm

St. Bartholomew's Church, Bath : Saturday 15th December 2007 at 7.30 pm

J. S. Bach : Magnificat

John Sheppard : Salvator mundi (for Christmas vigil)

Notker : Festa Christi

Antonius Romanus : Gloria (c. 1420)

Ingegneri : Tibi Laus (double choir)

Gerald Finzi : In terra pax

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 23rd June 2007 at 7.30 pm

Vivaldi : Domine ad adiuvandum me festina

Handel : Concerto for Organ and Chorus

Adam Michna z Otradovic : Vesper Psalm (pub. 1648): De profundis

Adam Michna z Otradovic : Vesper Psalm (pub. 1648): Domine probasti me

Don Fernando de las Infantas (died c.1610) : Quasi stella matutina

Michael Nyman : Miserere (from The Cook, The Thief And Her Lover)

C. N. Lewis : Tanacat : Through the glass darkly

Eric Whitacre : Sleep

Eric Whitacre : Water Night

Eric Whitacre : i thank You God

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Paul Feldwick : Bass

Edna Blackwell : Continuo

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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St. Bartholomew's Church, King Edward Road, Bath : Saturday 3rd March 2007 at 7.30 pm

Henry Purcell : O sing unto the Lord

Henry Purcell : Jehovah quam multi sunt hostes

Henry Purcell : Blow up the Trumpet in Sion

G.G. Gorczycki : Conductus (1733)

Michel-Richard de Lalande (born 1657) : Super flumina Babilonis

Alberto Ginastera : Jeremiah

Eric Whitacre : Lux Aurumque

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Paul Feldwick : Bass

Debbie Warren : Treble Recorder

Gerry Hoddinott : Accompaniment

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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St. Bartholomew's Church, King Edward Road, Bath : Saturday 2nd December 2006 at 7.30 pm

Charpentier : Te Deum (H 146)

Saint-Saëns : Christmas Oratorio Op. 12

In memory of John Inwood, a much-loved second bass in the Chandos Singers who died in September 2006,

the concert also included:

Victoria : Movements from Requiem (1605)

Tallis : Lamentations (part one)

Rachmaninov : Bogoroditse (Ave Maria)

Kreek : Taaveti laul (Psalm 104, Estonian composed in 1923)

Lauridsen : O nata lux
Lauridsen : O magnum mysterium

There was a retiring collection for Cancer BACUP (John Inwood’s chosen charity)

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Bass

Edna Blackwell : Accompanist

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 24th June 2006 at 7.30 pm

J.G. Goldberg (died 1756) : Der 12. Psalm (Cantata)

Thomas Tomkins (died 1656) : 4 Motets :

Behold, I bring you glad tidings

O give thanks unto the Lord

Out of the deep

Sing unto God

Waller Goodworth  : Ut Queant Laxis (composed 1906)

Rachmaninov : Ave Maria

Tchaikovsky  : 4 Motets :

Cherubic Hymn No.2

We praise Thee

Holy God

The Cherubic Hymn

Julia Rushworth : Soprano and viola

Alison Alexander : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Bass and violin

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 18th March 2006 at 7.30 pm

Dvorak : Stabat Mater

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Dominic Singleton : Tenor

Simon Caldwell : Bass

Gerry Hoddinott : Accompaniment

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 3rd December 2005 at 7.30 pm

French Composers

Perotin : Beata viscera

Anon 13th century : Balaam prophetanti

Anon 13th century : Hare, hare, hye - Balaam

Moulinié : Congratulamini mihi omnes + Fulcite me floribus

Fauré : Madrigal : In humaines

Poulenc : Quae moerebat and Eja Mater from Stabat Mater

Saint-Saëns : Le Déluge Op.45

plus

French-texted Music

Hindemith : En Hiver

Lauridsen : Les Chansons des Roses

Julia Rushworth  :  Soprano

Alison Alexander : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Baritone

Malcolm Hill : Conductor and accompanist

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 7.30 pm

Motets by Tallis, to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth

Tallis : Sermone blando

Tallis : Verily I say unto you

Tallis : O nata lux

Tallis : This is my commandment

Tallis : Audivi media nocte

Tallis : O Lord give thy Holy Spirit

Tallis : Salvator Mundi (1575)

Tallis : If ye love me

Tallis : Salvator Mundi

Monteverdi : Beatus Vir

Vivaldi : Beatus Vir

Palestrina : Haec Dies a 4

Palestrina : Haec Dies a 6

J.J. Fux : Mass in C (1730)

Heinrich Schütz : German Magnificat (Güben version)

Janacek : 1905 Mass (new reconstruction)

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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St. Thomas a Becket Church, Widcombe, Bath : Saturday 12th March 2005 at 7.30 pm

Antonio Salieri : Krönungs - Te Deum

Carl Nielsen : Benedictus Dominus

Vivaldi : Lauda Jerusalem

Mendelssohn : Te Deum a 4

Scarlatti : Miserere

E. du Caurroy : Te Deum (1609)

Schütz : Spes mea, Christe Deus

Schütz : Wann unsre Augen

Schütz : Amen, mein lieber

Schütz : Saul, Was verfolgst du mich?

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Simon Caldwell : Bass

Gerry Hoddinott : Accompanist

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 27 November 2004 at 7.30 pm

Vivaldi : Magnificat

Cavalli : Magnificat

Johann Pachelbel : Magnificat

Carl Pachelbel : Magnificat

Hyvonen : Magnificat

Pärt : Magnificat

Heiller : Magnificat

Preatorius : Magnificat

Julia Rushworth : Soprano

Sophie Scott : (Alto) Flute

Malcolm Hill : Conductor

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 26 June 2004 at 7.30 pm

Purcell : Te Deum

Handel : Laudate Pueri

Handel : Choruses from Solomon

Finzi : Three Short Elegies

Vaughn Williams : An Oxford Elegy

Narrator : John Tuohey

Soprano : Julia Rushworth

Bass : Simon Caldwell

Accompaniment : Gerry Hoddinott

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 21 February 2004 at 7.30 pm

Vivaldi : Kyrie

Vivaldi : Credo

G. Gabrieli : Gloria Patria a 8

Sweelinck : Cantate Domino

Monteverdi : Cantate Domino

Buxtehude : Magnificat

Buxtehude : Missa Brevis

Pergolesi (attrib.) : Magnificat

Satie : Messe des Pauvres

Menotti : Muero porque no muero

Soprano : Julia Rushworth

Continuo : Julia Thynne

Conductor (and Organ) : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 29 November 2003 at 7.30 pm

Haydn : Te Deum

Bach : Schwingt freudig euch empor

G.G.Gorczycki (1667-1734) : Completorium and Missa Rorate :

Rorate Caeli

   Kyrie (Rorate)

     Gloria (Rorate)

        Cum Invocarem

                      In Te, Domine, speravi

               Alleluia, Ave Maria

 Qui Habitat

       Ave Hierarchia

                   Ecce nunc benedicite

          Sanctus (Rorate)

                       Te lucis ante terminum

       Agnus (Rorate)

       In manus tuas

                    Ecce Dominus veniet

       Nunc Dimittis

                     Benedictus II (Rorate)

Soprano : Julia Rushworth

Continuo : Gerry Hoddinott

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 5 July 2003 at 7.30 pm

Works from Estonia since 1923

Kreek : Requiem

  Kreek : Psalms

Tormis : Midsummer Eve

  Tormis : Herding Calls

Meister : Ave Verum

  Meister : Regina Angelorum

Siimer : Magnificat

Pärt : Annum per Annum

Soprano : Julia Rushworth

Piano : Gerry Hoddinott

Conductor, Organ : Malcolm Hill

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Acton Court, Iron Acton, Bristol : Sunday 6 July 2003 at 3.00 pm

Madrigals from The Triumphs of Orianna (T) (1601)

 and Lute songs (1, 2)(1600-1620)

Ellis Gibbons : Long live fair Oriana (T)

John Farmer : Fair Phyllis I saw

John Bennet : Weep O mine eyes

 Robert Jones : The fountains smoke (1)

 Robert Jones : Once did my thoughts (1)

 Robert Jones : Might I redeem mine errors (1)

John Farmer : Fair nymphs, I heard one telling (T)

            Thomas Campion : Oft have I sighed (2)

            Thomas Campion : My love hath vow'd (2)

 John Mundy : Lightly she whipped o’er the dales (T)

William Cobbold : With wreaths of rose and laurel (T)

 Robert Jones : How many new years (1)

 Robert Jones : My father fain would have me take (1)

  Thomas Morley : April is in my mistress' face

              John Dowland : Flow my tears (2)

John Dowland : If my complaints could passions move (2)

            John Dowland : Go crystal tears (2)

  John Wilbye : Adieu sweet Amaryllis

John Milton : Fair Orian in the morn (T)

Solos : (1) Debbie Warren & (2) Julia Rushworth

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 15 March 2003 at 7.30 pm

Tallis : Lamentations

Lalande : De Profundis

Charpentier : Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre

Gesualdo : Ave Sanctissima 1603  (recent completion)

 Monteverdi : Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus

Tomkins : Out of the deep

Soprano : Julia Rushworth

Continuo : Clare Gordon

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 23 November 2002 at 7.30 pm

Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Morten Lauridsen : O Magnum Mysterium

 Morten Lauridsen : Lux Aeterna

Britten : Rejoice in the Lamb

Sopranos : Susanna Watson and Julia Rushworth

Organ : Gerry Hoddinott

Keyboard : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 13 July 2002 at 7.30 pm

Gabriel Fauré : Requiem (first version)

Francis Poulenc : Sécheresses

Lili Boulanger : Hymne au Soleil

Lili Boulanger : Soir sur la Plaine

Francis Poulenc : Gloria

Soprano : Claire Surman

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Organ : Gerry Hoddinott

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 9 March 2002 at 7.30 pm

Saint-Saëns : Messe Op. 4

Saint-Saëns : Requiem Op. 54

Soprano : Julia Rushworth

Organ : Gerry Hoddinott

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 1 December 2001 at 7.30 pm

Stephen Hatfield :  Elibama

Paul Hindemith : En hiver

Józek Swider : Oto ziemia

Jaako Mäntyjärvi : Double, double, toil and trouble

Gerald Finzi : My spirit sang all day

Cameron Neylon : John 1:19

Arthur Bliss : Last night

Rachmaninov : Chorus of Spirits

Max Reger : In Gottes Namen

Gerald Finzi : I praise the tender flowers

D.Menezes arr. M.Hill : Desert musics

Soprano : Julia Rushworth (in Desert Musics)

Soprano : Debbie Warren (in Chorus of Spirits)

Narrator : Viv James

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 7 July 2001 at 7.30 pm

Guillaume Dufay : Two hymns

Alessandro Grandi : Exaudi Deus

Giovanni Crivelli : O Maria Mater Gratiae

Rautavaara : True and False Unicorn

Philip Glass : Three Songs for Chorus

Górecki : Three Lullabies

Arvo Pärt : Magnificat

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 10 March 2001 at 7.30 pm

Guillaume Dufay (born c.1401) : Ave Regina  (3 part version)

E. Moulinié (born c.1601) : Ne Reminiscaris

E. Moulinié : O dulce nomen

Stefano Bernadi : Dixit Dominus

Pierre de la Rue : Ave Regina

Guilain : Magnificat Suite (Tone I)

Pergolesi (attrib.) : Magnificat

Poulenc : Stabat Mater

Soprano : Rebecca Rudge (in Poulenc, Bernadi and Pergolesi)

Soprano : Julia Rushworth (in Moulinié and Pergolesi)

Tenor : Cameron Neylon (in Moulinié)

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : Saturday 18 November 2000 at 7.30 pm

Vivaldi : Magnificat

Mendelssohn : Te Deum in D (8 part)

Fauré : Madrigal : Inhumaines

John Gardner : Shakespeare song (op.36 no.1)

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi : Shakespeare songs (nos 1 & 4)

Rautavaara : "Suite" de Lorca

Górecki : Totus tuus

Solo sopranos : Rebecca Rudge and Julia Rushworth

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath : 17 June 2000 at 7.30 

Francis Poulenc : Sept Répons des Ténèbres

Pierre de la Rue : Ave Regina

Franz Liszt : Salve Regina

Antonio Vivaldi : Beatus Vir

Claudio Monteverdi : Beatus Vir

Soloist in all three main pieces : Susanna Watson

Extra soloist in the pre-1800 pieces : Julia Rushworth

SOLO PIANO

Mozart : Fantasia in c minor

Franz Liszt : Consolation

Claude Debussy : Sarabande from Pour le Piano

Karol Szymanowski : Etude No. 3

Piano : Clare Nicholls

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

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St John the Baptist Church, Hinton Charterhouse 

20 May 2000 concert at 7.pm 

Giuseppi Ottavio Pitoni : Cantate domino

Pierre de la Rue : Ave Regina caelorum

Thomas Campian : Never weather-beaten sail

Franz Liszt : Salve Regina

Orazio Vecchi : Sing me a song

Robert Lucas de Pearsall : Sing we and chaunt it

Edward Elgar : As torrents in summer

Edvard Grieg : Ave maris stella

C.V. Stanford : Shall we go dance?

Ludovico Viadana : Exsultate justi

C.V. Stanford : When Mary thro' the garden went

C.V. Stanford : Corydon, arise!

C.V.Stanford : Diaphenia

Conductor : Malcolm Hill

with additional pieces performed by the Jerome Consort

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Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath, 4th March 2000

Gabriel Fauré : Cantique de Racine

Aaron Copland : In the Beginning

Marcel Dupré : Passion Symphony 1st mov.  (organ)

Maurice Duruflé : Requiem

Soprano : Rebecca Rudge

Baritone : Vincent Ashton Newton

Organ : Malcolm Hill

Conductor : Jason Thornton

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