Three Shakespeare Songs:

Ralph Vaughan Williams
with additional repertoire by Howells, Brahms, Gibbons, Tallis and Tomkins

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. 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.

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Programme

Richard Puanaki: Ka Waiata ke a Maria

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

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
Thomas Tallis: O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis

Interval

Tomas Luis de Victoria: Jesu, dulcis memoria

Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

Carlo Gesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita
Christopher Marshall: Minoi, minoi
Clement Janequin: Le Chant des Oiseaux
Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan

Thomas Tomkins: O Praise the Lord all ye Heathen

dir. Alastair Carey

7.30pm, Tuesday 9 December
St Albans Church
Ngaio Street, Eastbourne

$15

This concert was repeated with additional repertoire in Wellington on Saturday 13 December.

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