Three Shakespeare Songs

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Saturday 13 December 2003, 8pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

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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