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13 December 2024
 
7.30pm
Holy Trinity Church
146 Sloane Street, South Kensington
London
SW1X 9BZ

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Join us for our annual Christmas Concert of modern and traditional music for choir and audience.

 
12 December 2024
 
7.30pm
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate
London
EC2M 3TL

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£18 (£14 reduced price)
Red, White and Gold

Orlando Chamber Choir
Oliver John Ruthven, director
Francesca Massey, organ

Tallis: O nata lux
Willcocks: Unto us is born a Son
Tunder: Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme
Poston: Sing unto the Lord
Vaughan Williams: The truth from above
Vaughan WIlliams: O little town of Bethlehem
White: Christe qui lux es et dies IV
Gibbons: As on the night
Darke: In the bleak midwinter
Willcocks: While shepherds watched their flocks
Poston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Buxtehude: In dulci jubilo
Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful

In this concert of festive music, famous names are intertwined with less well-known ones.

Elizabeth Poston, a stalwart yet unfamiliar English composer of the twentieth century, takes centre stage, with two settings of texts for Christmas. Poston studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and had a very successful career as a composer and performer during the male-dominated era of post-war Britain.

Robert White, a prodigious talent who died young, is another unfamiliar name, especially when set against his more famous peer, Thomas Tallis. White’s Christe qui lux es et dies is his fourth setting of this text for Compline, and it must have therefore held a special appeal for him. Tallis and Gibbons, meat and drink for the singers of the Orlando Chamber Choir, provide contrasting settings of words celebrating the coming of Christ.

Franz Tunder was the father-in-law of the famous organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude, and was a talented composer and musician in his own right. Director Oliver John Ruthven has arranged Tunder's motet Wachet auf! for choir and organ - it is a blueprint for the more extended cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach 70 years later and it uses the Lutheran hymn as its basis, much as Robert White uses the cantus firmus plainchant as the basis for Christe qui lux es et dies.

The programme is interspersed with audience carols, and we will serve wine and mince pies during the interval.
 
13 December 2024
 
7.30pm
St Cuthbert's church
50 Philbeach Gardens
London
sw5 9eb

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VICTOR RUIZ
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02071014479

20
Songs My Mother Taught Me

Siying Chen
Samuel Drapter

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Op. 48.

1. Gruss

2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein

3. Lauf der Welt

4. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall

5. Zur Rosenzeit

6. Ein Traum



Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

1. Allerseelen op. 22.

2. Kornblumen Mädchenblumen Op. 22.No.1.

3. Epheu Mädchenblumen Op. 22.Nr.3.

4. Das Rosenband 4 Lieder Op.36.No.1.



Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

1. Von ewiger Liebe Op. 43.No.1.



Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

1. Clair de lune



Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

1. Songs my mother taught me Gypsy Songs Op. 55.No.4.



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1797)

1. “Voi avete un cor fedele,” Mozart’s concert aria K. 217



Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021)

1. “The Trees on the Mountain” Opera Susannah Act ll, Scene 3



Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

1. “Eccomi in lieta vesta” I Capuleti e i Montecchi Act l



Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

1. Die Schöpfung

https://www.siyingchen.co.uk/concerts/67030ac202e28fcfde192da1
 
7.30pm
Temple Church
Temple
London
EC4Y 7BB

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£30, £20 Concessions
Early Music Christmas Concert: 'Navidad Nuestra'

Idrîsî Ensemble
Monteverde Consort
& special guest soloists:
Ana Beard Fernández, soprano
Julia Merino, mezzosoprano
Jesús León, tenor

Navidad nuestra: ‘Huida’ Ariel Ramírez (Argentina)
Introitus 'Hodie Scietis': Old Roman Chant
Hanacpachap cussicuinin: Anonymous (Peru)
Conductus 'Congaudeant Catholici': Codex Calixtinus (Spain)
Marizápalos a lo Divino ‘Serafín que, con dulce harmonía’: Joan Cererols (Spain)
Gaudete: Anonymous (UK)
Desvelado dueño mio: Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (Peru)
Offertorium 'Tollite Portas': Old Roman Chant
Convidando está la noche: Juan García de Zéspedes (Mexico)
Vayan unas especies: Esteban Salas (Cuba) UK PREMIERE
Antiphona 'Media Vita in Morte Sumus': Templar Chant
San Sabeya Gugurumbé: Mateo Flecha ‘el Viejo’ (Spain)
Dennos lecencia Señores: Martínez Compañón Codex (Peru)

‘Utterly mesmerising.’ Classical Unlocked
“A fabulous performer.” BBC Radio 3


Join us this December 13th for what promises to be a Christmas concert like no other. Ancient chants and toe-tapping rhythms collide in this unique event journeying through a millennium of early Latin and Hispanic sacred Christmas music treasures, including the UK premiere of a villancico by Cuban Baroque composer, Esteban Salas. Joined by a stellar line-up of pre-eminent Hispanic soloists, the groundbreaking Medieval specialist Idrîsî Ensemble join forces with the Monteverde Consort to celebrate vibrant, festive songs from Spain and Latin America, interlacing Amerindian and Afro styles with the entrancing, mystical sounds of the Roman world. Inspired by our historic c.1163 venue, the Temple Church, the group will also revive music from the site’s earliest days, including a 12th-century chant associated with the Knights Templar who established this place as their spiritual home.
 


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