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Three Shakespeare Songs

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Saturday 13 December 2003, 8pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

Directed by Alastair Carey

with additional repertoire by Howells, Brahms, Gibbons, Tallis and Dove

Vaughan-Williams' masterful settings of three of Shakespeare's most profound texts, with additional sacred and secular choral works by the great composer and his contemporaries, plus Christmas carols — including an exciting new Christmas composition by English composer Jonathan Dove. This varied programme includes highlights from The Tudor Consort's recent six-concert series performed at the 35th Tolosa International Choral Competition in Spain in October 2003.

Programme

Herbert Howells: Requiem: Salvator Mundi
David Hamilton: Nunc Dimittis
Tomas Luis de Victoria: O vos omnes

Orlando Gibbons: O Lord in Thy wrath
Orlando Gibbons: Out of the Deep

Herbert Howells: Here is the Little Door
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: The Blessed Son of God

Johannes Brahms: Ich aber bin elend
Peter Philips: O Crux Splendidior
Thomas Tallis: O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis

Interval

Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan

Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

Robert Pearsall: Lay a Garland
Carlo Gesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita
Clement Janequin: Le Chant des Oiseaux

Jonathan Dove: The Three Kings

Thomas Tomkins: O Praise the Lord all ye Heathen

This concert was part of the 2003 Performance Series.

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Review

"[The Tudor Consort] produced glorious sound in their specialist Renaissance repertoire but also impressed in their Brahms motet"

Capital Times, 17 December 2003

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Musical Director

Michael Stewart

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Reviews

Brahms’s Deutsches Requiem given spirited and scrupulous performance by Tudor Consort

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Review of A German Requiem (London Version) – Johannes Brahms, Saturday 27 May 2017

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