Choral at Cadogan 2016-17

Choral at Cadogan 2016-2017

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Now moving into its ninth season, I’m happy to say that this series is as strong as ever, presenting some of the leading names in choral singing today, welcoming both familiar and new faces to Cadogan Hall.

St John’s College Choir makes a welcome return in December with an uplifting festive programme guaranteed to draw you in to the spirit of the season followed later in the month by The Sixteen with their Christmas programme.

We welcome Ensemble Plus Ultra for its Cadogan Hall debut.

Renowned for their zesty, innovative performances, they perform a selection of songs alongside Shakespeare sonnets in a celebration of love.

We are thrilled that the Nederlands Kamerkoor is able to join us this year in a rare trip to the UK, so don’t miss this opportunity to hear them in a wonderful programme exploring the relationship between the heavenly and the human with Britten’s strikingly beautiful Sacred and Profane as its cornerstone. Ex Cathedra also focuses on heaven and earth with music of religious conflict and discovery, including Byrd’s exquisite Mass for four voices.

As always, The Tallis Scholars open and close the series with two contrasting programmes. The first a celebration of English polyphony including Tallis’ famous Lamentations. The second explores the beauty and complexity of the early Spanish renaissance featuring a 6-voice mass setting by Morales.

I look forward to welcoming you once again to our special series of choral music.

Peter Phillips, Artistic Director

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Contents 2016 4

19 October

The Tallis Scholars

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12 December

he Choir of St John’s College, T Cambridge

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20 & 21 December

The Sixteen

2017 10 15 February

Ensemble Plus Ultra

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Nederlands Kamerkoor

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Ex Cathedra

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The Tallis Scholars

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Wednesday 19 October, 7.30pm

The Tallis Scholars Western Wynde, when wyll thou blow?

Byrd Laetentur caeli Taverner Missa Western Wind Davy Salve regina Byrd Salve regina Tallis Lamentations 1 Ferrabosco Lamentations Byrd Vigilate Peter Phillips director

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This all-English programme of Renaissance masterpieces is a kind of Byrd sandwich. It features some very famous music by Tallis and Taverner, while showcasing a tour-de-force from the Eton Choirbook by Richard Davy alongside a beautiful set of Lamentations by the adopted English composer (and possible spy) Alfonso Ferrabosco. Taverner’s Missa Western Wind is really a set of (36) variations on a theme which is so catchy one never tires of singing it. The whole set is a tribute to Taverner’s astonishing powers of invention and rare in that there was no precedent in his time for basing a sacred composition on a secular theme.

T I C K E TS : £31, £27, £23, £19 EN CO RE M e m be rs : pay £ 27 fo r to p p r i ce ti c kets See booking information on page 19

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Monday 12 December, 7.30pm

Choir St John’s of St College, John’s Cambridge College, Cambridge Harvey The Annunciation Parsons Ave Maria Harvey The Angels Poston Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree Rütti I wonder as I wander Chilcott The Shepherd’s Carol Milner Out of your sleep Rutter Dormi Jesu Gardner Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

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Vaughan Williams Hymn to the Father of Heaven Preston I saw three ships Joubert There is no rose Mathias Sir Christèmas Cornelius The Three Kings Walford-Davies The Holly and the Ivy Wilberg Ding dong, merrily on high Andrew Nethsingha director

The world-renowned Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge returns to Cadogan Hall for an evening of choral music.

The Choir at St John’s College was founded in the 1670s and is one of the world’s leading choirs of men and boys. The concert presents music for Christmas including Poston’s spellbinding Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree, John Gardner’s exuberant setting of Tomorrow shall be my dancing day and traditional favourites The Holly and the Ivy and Ding dong, merrily on high.

All of these works have been recorded by the Choir on its new CD Christmas with St John’s.

There is also music by Vaughan Williams and by the contemporary composer Jonathan Harvey, including The Annunciation which was written especially for the Choir in 2011.

T I C K E TS : £31, £27, £23, £19 EN CO RE M e m be rs : pay £ 27 fo r to p p r i ce ti c kets See booking information on page 19

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Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 December, 7.30pm

The Sixteen The Three Kings Traditional I wonder as I wander

Sheppard Reges Tharsis

Jacob Handl Omnes de Saba

Plainsong Hymn: Crudelis Herodes

JH Hopkins Jnr Three Kings of Orient

Lassus Omnes de Saba

Peter Fricker A Babe is born

Traditional The First Nowell

C16th MS Thys endere nyghth I saw a syghth

Warlock Bethlehem Down

Herbert Howells Long, long ago Palestrina Reges Tharsis Traditional Wexford Carol Palestrina Videntes stellam Magi Traditional Children’s Song of the Nativity

Cornelius Three Kings Lassus Videntes stellam Magi James Bassi Quem pastores laudavere Plainsong Magnificat Antiphon: Tribus miraculis Anerio Magnificat a 8 Harry Christophers conductor

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The Sixteen, under the direction of Harry Christophers, presents a varied and diverse Christmas programme taking us as far as Bohemia as well as closer to home, in Ireland and England. The programme includes well-loved traditional carols and early music, including Palestrina and Lassus, and lesser-known modern pieces such as 21st-century composer James Bassi’s Quem pastores laudavere.

T I C K E TS : £45, £36, £28, £20, £16 EN CO RE M e m be rs : 1 0% off See booking information on page 19

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Wednesday 15 February, 7.30pm

Ensemble Plus Ultra The Food of Love – Song of Songs Victoria Nigra sum

Lassus Veni dilecti

Palestrina Trahe me post te

Chant Dum esset rex

Victoria Trahe me post te

Victoria Vidi speciosam

Chant Tota pulchra es Palestrina Osculetur me Victoria Nigra sum: Vadam et circuibo Chant Nigra sum sed formosa Palestrina Nigra sum sed formosa

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Just one day after Valentine’s Day, the award-winning Ensemble Plus Ultra makes its Cadogan Hall debut with a selection of ‘Song of Songs’ settings, alongside readings of Shakespeare sonnets in a celebration of love. With music by composers including Tomás Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Orlande de Lassus, this programme showcases some of the most beautiful and erotic of scriptural texts (the Song of Songs being essentially a love poem), set in a variety of styles. Ensemble Plus Ultra, founded in 2001, are specialists in the music of Renaissance Spain, and their 10-disc recording of music by Tomás Luis Victoria won the 2012 Gramophone Award for Early Music. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear them in a rare London appearance!

T I C K E TS : £31, £27, £23, £19 EN CO RE M e m be rs : pay £ 27 fo r to p p r i ce ti c kets See booking information on page 19

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Wednesday 8 March, 7.30pm

Nederlands K amerkoor Sacred and Profane Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia Jackson Ave Regina Coelorum Berio Cries of London Lars Johan Werle Orpheus Lars Johan Werle Canzona 126 di Francesco Petrarca Britten Sacred and Profane Peter Dijkstra conductor

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Chief conductor Peter Dijkstra has compiled a masterly programme with a timeless theme: the wandering soul, drifting between heaven and earth.

Do we listen to God’s command, or do we give in to earthly temptations?

Benjamin Britten must have struggled with this question. It can be heard in one of his most beautiful choral works, Sacred and Profane, written to medieval texts. The lure of the temporary sounds comical but heartbreaking in Berio’s Cries of London, about street vendors in the 16th century. The works of Lars Johan Werle complete the programme. A ‘classic’ choral programme with a timeless touch.

T I C K E TS : £31, £27, £23, £19 EN CO RE M e m be rs : pay £ 27 fo r to p p r i ce ti c kets See booking information on page 19

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8FEOFTEBZ 26 April, 7. 0pm

Ex Cathedra In a Strange Land Orchésographie de Thoinot Arbeau Belle qui tiens ma vie Genevan Psalter Estans assis aux rives aquatiques Sweelinck Estans assis aux rives aquatiques Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Kyrie, Gloria Weelkes Thule, the Period of Cosmography; The Andalusian Merchant Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Credo Tomkins When David Heard Tallis Why fum’th in fight Tallis If ye love me Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus Byrd Ave verum corpus Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Agnus Dei Gibbons O clap your hands together Ritual, Lima (1631) Hanac pachap cussicuinin

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Victoria Super flumina Babylonis a 8 Padilla Missa Ego flos campi: Kyrie, Gloria 14th century Spanish Polorum regina Fernandes Xicochi conetzintle Symbolico Catholico Indiano (1598) Capac eterno Dios Padilla Missa Ego flos campi: Credo Pascual ¡Oy es día de placer y de cantar!

Padilla Missa Ego flos campi: Sanctus Lobo Versa est in luctum Padilla Missa Ego flos campi: Agnus Dei Hernández Sancta Maria, e!

Zéspedes Convidando esta la noche Anon Dulce, Jesús mío Jeffrey Skidmore conductor

“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”

This well-known verse from Psalm 137, a hymn of captivity and longing for homeland and religious freedom, gives this programme its title and its theme.

In a Strange Land explores man’s search for heaven and earth in the Old and the New World in the turbulence of the 16th and 17th centuries. There is music of religious conflict and of discovery from England, France, Holland, Spain – and from Mexico and Bolivia, the world of the Aztecs and Incas.

The programme includes William Byrd’s exquisite Mass for Four Voices alongside gems by Gesualdo, Lobo, Tallis and Victoria, the lilting syncopation of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla’s Missa Ego flos campi, and rhythmically-arresting music from the Latin American Baroque, full of evocative, indigenous imagery.

T I C K E TS : £31, £27, £23, £19 EN CO RE M e m be rs : pay £ 27 fo r to p p r i ce ti c kets See booking information on page 19

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Wednesday 17 May, 7.30pm

The Tallis Scholars A Spanish Renaissance Morales Missa Mille regretz Victoria Dum complerentur Victoria Regina caeli Morales Regina caeli Alonso Lobo Lamentations Morales Emendemus in melius Victoria Magnificat primi toni

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This all-Spanish programme focuses on three of the greatest names from the renaissance period. The main work is a substantial 6-voice mass setting by Morales, based on a chanson by Josquin. Music of this beauty and complexity from the early Spanish Renaissance is not so often performed, and may come as an eye-opener to those more familiar with High Renaissance practice. The second half similarly contains some resplendent 6-voice music – again rare in some cases, and again fascinating.

Alonso Lobo’s epic Lamentations are a case in point. The concert ends with Victoria’s irrepressible double-choir Magnificat.

T I C K E TS : £31, £27, £23, £19 EN CO RE M e m be rs : pay £ 27 fo r to p p r i ce ti c kets See booking information on page 19

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Getting to Cadogan Hall The easiest way to travel to Cadogan Hall is by public transport. Located two minutes walk from Sloane Square tube, served by District and Circle lines, just one stop from Victoria station which has both mainline and additional tube connections.

Sl oa ne Square Unde rg ro u n d Two mi nutes wal k Upon exiting Sloane Square Station, turn immediately right, passing the Royal Court Theatre. (You will see Cadogan Hall’s tower immediately before you). Cross over Cliveden Place and walk up Sedding Street to the Hall.

Bus S loa ne Stre et one mi n u te walk Frequent bus services stop in Sloane Square and neighbouring streets including King’s Road, Sloane Street and Lower Sloane Street.

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