
Entente Cordiale
3.00pm, Saturday 28th June at Shirley Methodist Church
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Programme and tracks to listen to or watch
MacMillan James - O Radiant Dawn
Handel - Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
Gibbons – This is the record of John
Chilcott - For Him all stars have shone
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - O ye that love the Lord
Rutter – This is the Day
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Bizet - Agnus Dei
INTERVAL
Lili Boulanger - Hymne au Soleil
Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine
Maurice Duruflé - Messe cum jubilo - Kyrie,Gloria
Vivaldi: Credo
Maurice Duruflé - Messe cum jubilo - Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
Rutter – Lord Bless you and Keep you
ENCORES:
Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Nuit
Chilcott - Irish Blessing - on tour but not in this concert
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Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5amraEtKGSylkl4ILMpZb7?si=bfceb68ba7004a03
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Rehearsal tracks
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Thanks to Gill for these!
Let thy hand be strengthened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd74gNI_EI8 Bit long winded, but quite useful.
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Hymne au Soleil -
A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xuiWlcjbZQ
S: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztyOSRv-pm8
B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aexaRl_9ojU
T: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=542RCCemRa4
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I've gone through the choir's archived files and found files and also the pronunciation guides that Geoff kindly recorded the last time we performed some of the works:
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Bizet: Agnus Dei
NB there are lots of different arrangements of this piece - one at Ely Cathedral was recommended last time as the closest to what we will be singing.
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