"Even Such is Time"

St. James the Great, Leicester: Saturday 1 July 2000
St. Mary's Church, Putney: Saturday 8 July 2000

Music and words for the new century

Programme

Day and Night

Arvo Pärt (b.1935)

O Morgenstern (from 7 Magnificat Antiphons)

Thomas Tallis (c1505-85)

Te lucis ante terminum

John Wilbye (1574-1638)

Draw on, sweet night

Benjamin Britten (1913-76)

The evening primrose (from Five Flower Songs)

Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Now that the sun has veiled his light ('An evening hymn') - solo

Autumn and Winter

Georgy Sviridov (b. 1915)

from Songs of troubled times:
Autumn
The ikon

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

from Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans:
Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain

Spring and Summer

Leonard Bernstein (1918-?)

Two French choruses from The Lark

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

O primavera

Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602) April is in my mistress' face
Britten The succession of the four sweet months
To daffodils
(from Five Flower Songs)
The Times of Our Lives/Life and Times

Britten

Time (from Choral dances from Gloriana)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

O mistress mine

Gerald Finzi (1901-56)

It was a lover and his lass (from Let us garlands bring) - solo

Good Times
Richard Rogers arr. David Blackwell Blue moon

George Gershwin arr. Roderick Williams

Summer time

Cole Porter arr. Andrew Carter

Night and day

 

Last updated 16 October 2001