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The Ripieno Choir | At the round Earth's imagined corners

When
Saturday June 16, 2018 at 19:30
Where
All Saints, Weston Green, Esher
Tickets
£16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under 18s; group discounts available
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  1. Music, when soft voices die, from Six Modern Lyrics - Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
  2. Barbara Allen - Traditional Scottish, arranged by Adam Ockelford
  3. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino - William Byrd
  4. Justorum Animae - William Byrd
  5. Timete Dominum - William Byrd
  6. Songs of Farewell - Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
    • My soul, there is a country
    • I know my soul hath power to know all things
    • Never weather-beaten sail
    • There is an old belief
    • At the round earth's imagined corners
  7. Lord, Let me know mine end - Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
  8. Salve regina (8vv) - Tomás Luis de Victoria
  9. Ave Maria ---- virgo serena - Josquin des Prés
  10. Regina Caeli Laetare - Tomás Luis de Victoria

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s (1848-1918) noble Songs of Farewell are a persuasive reminder of his significant contribution to the English choral tradition. The six ‘songs’ are almost a musical summation of his compositional life, reflecting his love of English madrigals and partsongs. Steadily increasing in length, complexity of choral texture (growing from four parts to eight) and emotional fervour – setting fine words by (among others) Thomas Campion, John Donne and from the psalms – the set has an intensity and power considerably greater than the sum of its six individual parts.

Parry’s six ‘motets’ (for thus he or his publisher described them) are complemented by six motets by Renaissance masters. We celebrate twenty years of Ripieno concerts at All Saints, Weston Green, with music for the Feast of All Saints from Byrd’s Gradualia – which is scintillating even by his exalted standards. Byrd’s Spanish contemporary, Victoria, is likewise on sublime form with his Salve Regina and Regina coeli. However, his luxuriant eight-part writing is thrown into high relief by the often stark, simplicity of Josquin’s four-part masterpiece, Ave Maria - the first piece in the first-ever publication of such music (1502).

Finally, we are excited to present the first performance of Adam Ockelford’s skilful arrangement of the traditional Scottish ballad Barbara Allen. Those who know their Wagner will recognise the musical fragments from which the accompanying voices are constructed and also their appropriateness. Non-Wagner fans need not worry though: the whole effect creates a beautiful song.


Venue
All Saints, Weston Green
Chestnut Avenue
Esher
Surrey
KT10 8JL
England


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