Upcoming concerts
Saturday July 5th 7.30pm All Saints’ Church, North Street, York
In Beauty may I walk: Jonathan Dove
The Flower: Alec Roth
Five Flower Songs: Benjamin Britten
and the swallow: Caroline Shaw
One Foot in Eden Still, I stand: Nicholas Maw
All Seems Beautiful to Me: Eric Whitacre
It was a Lover and his Lass: Humphrey Clucas
Clown in the Moon: David McGregor - commissioned for the Micklegate Singers, first performance
Trois Chansons: Maurice Ravel
Night and Day 2: Cole Porter (arranged Andrew Carter)
They can’t take that away from me: George Gershwin (arr. Alan Simmonds)
The way you look tonight: Jerome Kern (arr. Simmonds)
The Goslings: Frederick Bridge
Frog went a-courtin’: Trad. (arr. Daryl Runswick)
'And there were Shepherds...'
Music for Advent and Christmas, particularly as seen through the eyes of the Shepherds, featuring Palestrina, Leighton, Dove, McDowall, Chilcott and more. With the first performances of two Micklegate Singers commissions: The Road of Evening composed by James Else, and Joe Bates’ Absence.
Palestrina: Rorate Coeli
Lassus: Quem vidistis, pastores?
Chilcott: The Shepherds’ Carol
Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love
Richard Dering: Quem vidistis, pastores?
Jonathan Dove: Welcome all wonders in one sight
David Bednall: BC:AD - This was the Moment
Alexander L’Estrange: Epiphany Carol
Cecilia McDowall: Now may we singen
Kenneth Leighton: A Hymn of the Nativity
Joe Bates: Absence
James Else: The Road of Evening
Francis Poulenc: Quem vidistis, pastores?
Richard Rodney Bennett: Gloria, Gloria
Elemental Forces
Earth, Wind and Fire are all represented in this varied programme which also touches on the Seasons, and that most elemental of forces - Love.
As in each concert this year, we are including the premiere of a piece specially written for the Micklegate Singers.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Spring Time of the Year; Over Hill, Over Dale
EJ Moeran: Spring the Sweet Spring
Camille Saint-Saëns: Les Fleurs et les Arbres; Calme des Nuits
Joseph Kosma (arr. Andrew Carter): Autumn Leaves
Edward Elgar: O Wild West Wind; Weary Wind of the West
Herbert Howells: The Shadows
John Ireland: The Hills
Claude Debussy: Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
Peter Moger: The Dove Descending (first performance)
with pieces by Peter Klatzow, Ola Gjeilo, James Whitbourn, Jussi Chydenius and Phillip Cooke
Star of the Sea
A concert of old and new music in honour of the Virgin Mary, the Star of the Sea. Lobo’s Missa Sancta Maria dates from 1621, the golden age of Portuguese polyphony. In addition to being hailed as Star of the Sea, Mary is also known as the Queen of Heaven, which is reflected in other works in our programme. We also include the delayed premiere of a Micklegate commission by David McGregor, They That Love Beyond the World. This atmospheric piece is the first of three collaborations with young composers at The University of York, setting words written by William Penn, an early Quaker and the founder of Pennsylvania.
Our full programme is as follows:
Missa Sancta Maria - Duarte Lôbo
Regina Caeli - Cecilia McDowall
Ave Maris Stella - Edvard Grieg
Ave Maris Stella - Tomás Luis De Victoria
Salve Regina - Pierre Villette
Splendid Jewel - Stephen Paulus
Ave Regina Caelorum - Alonso Lobo
Ave Regina Caelorum - Peter Philips
Ave Regina Caelorum - Cecilia McDowall
Hortus Conclusus - Rodrigo Ceballos
They That Love Beyond the World - David McGregor
(A Micklegate Singers commission, first performance)