Chetham's School of Music

The ORA singers present a concert themed around ‘the passing of the Year’, centred around Jonathan Dove’s song-cycle of the same name for double choir and piano, alongside Renaissance songs celebrating sacred feast days, poetry for each season and new work from Manchester-based composer Emily Pedersen, and BBC Philharmonic composer-in-residence Tom Coult.

Celebrity reader to be announced!

This concert is generously supported by The Cuthbert Family

FULL PROGRAMME

Epiphany

Orlando de Lassus  Omnes de Saba
Emily Pedersen   Reflection on Lassus, Omnes de Saba*

Lent & Passiontide

Pablo Casals  O vos omnes
Peter Philips  Ecce vicit Leo

Easter

John Taverner  Dum Transisset Sabbatum
Jonathan Harvey  Dum Transisset Sabbatum
Plainchant  Victimae Paschali Laudes
Gregorio Allegri  Christus Resurgens

Jonathan Dove  The Passing of the Year
i Invocation
ii The Narrow Bud Opens Her Beauties to the Sun
iii Answer July
iv Hot Sun, Cool Fire
v Ah, Sun-Flower!
vi Adieu! Farewell Earth’s Bliss!
vii Ring Out, Wild Bells

Trinity

John Shepherd  Libera Nos
Ryan Wigglesworth  Libera Nos

All Saints and All Souls

William Byrd  Justorum Animae
Tom Coult   Reflection on Byrd, Justorum Anime*
Alonso Lobo  Versa est in luctum 

Advent & Christmas

Adrian Peacock  Venite Gaudete!
Plainchant  Hodie Christus Est
Steven Sametz  Gaudete

*World Premiere performance