February - Candlemas Evensong at Peterborough Cathedral
Programme
Peterborough Cathedral
Saturday 2nd February 2013
3.30pm
Introit: Byrd - Senex Puerum
Preces and Responses: Tallis
Psalm 132
Magnificat - Part
Nunc Dimittis: Getchaninov
Anthem: Byrd - Responsum accepit Simeon
Hymns NEH 52 - O Worship the Lord (Was Lebet) and NEH 157 - Hail to the Lord who Comes (Old 120th - descant by Christopher Maxim).
Organ music by Bach, played by Stephen Barber:
Before: Mit Fried' und Freud ich fahr dahin (BWV 616) from Orgelbuchlein
After: Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf (BWV 1092) from Neumeister Collection
Happy Birthday! Benjamin Britten - 22nd November 2013
Friday, 22nd November 2013
The Court Room, Stamford Town Hall,
St Mary’s Street, STAMFORD
Tickets £9 (concessions £5)
from Stamford Arts Centre,
01780 763203
A Concert of Britten’s Songs and Choral Music. Burghley Voices Chamber Choir, conducted by Fergus Black, perform his Hymn to St Cecilia, and the Choral Dances from his Coronation opera, Gloriana, complemented by solo songs and folk song arrangements sung by young people from the area.
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Concert for Peace at St Martin's, Stamford - 1st August 2013
Programme
Thursday, 1st August 2013
1.00 pm
St Martin's Church, Stamford
Ronald Watson (b.1936)
If there is to be peace
Charles Villiers Stanford
A Song of Peace
Followed by a Hymn after a Song of Peace
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Le Temple de la Paix
Selections from the ballet presented at Fontainebleu in 1685 to celebrate the Treaty of Regensburg the previous year
William Croft
With Noise of Cannon
A Cantata written in 1713 to celebrate the Peace of Utrecht
(transcribed by Philip Robinson)
Great George! - 27th September 2013
Programme
Friday, 27th September 2013
8.00 pm
St Martin's Church, Stamford
Choral and Organ music from the Coronation Services of the first four Kings George, crowned respectively in 1714, 1727, 1761 and 1820, sung by Stamford-based choir Burghley Voices, in this 60th anniversary year of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. Music includes Handel's Zadok the Priest (for George II), as well as anthems by Croft (G.I), Boyce (G.III), Attwood (G.IV) and others, as well as English songs of the period, such as Arne's When Daisies Pied and James Hook's Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill, from the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, all the way to Sir Henry Bishop's Home Sweet Home at the other end of the Georgian period, sung by soprano Bridget Howarth.
Stephen Barber (organ)
Programme included:
The Lord is a sun and a shield
William Croft (1678-1727)
sung at the coronation of King George I in 1714
Zadok the priest
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
sung at the coronation of King George II in 1727
The King shall rejoice
and Come, Holy Ghost
William Boyce (1711-1779)
sung at the coronation of King George III in 1761
I was glad
Thomas Attwood
sung at the coronation of King George IV in 1820
