"Time and Place":

3 July 1999 - St Mary the Virgin, Shelton, Norfolk

Music celebrating the anniversaries of Guerrero and Poulenc, local connections and music written both at the time of the church's foundation and in the present day.

Programme

Here and there, now and then

Plainsong

Ave Maria

Josquin Desprez (c 1440-1521)

Ave Maria

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Ave Maria (1934)

John Tavener (b1944)

Song for Athene

Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)

Aeternae laudis lilium

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

A Hymn to the Virgin (1930 rev.1934)

Anon. late 13th century English

Edi beo thu, hevene quene

Peter Aston (b.1938)

How lovely is your dwelling place

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750

Suite No.3 (cello - Naomi Williams)

Anniversaries and Two Guest Composers

Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)

Ave Virgo sanctissima (1566)

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)

Tota pulchra es, Maria (1960) (from Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Salve Regina (1941)

Pierre Villette (b1926)

Hymne à la Vierge (1954)

Local Connections

Norfolk Born and Bred

Thomas Morley (1558-1603)

Fyer, fyer!(1594)

John Wilbye (1574-1638)

Adieu, sweet Amarylis (1598)

Elizabeth I's Visit to Norwich

Benjamin Britten (1913-76)

Choral Dances from Gloriana(1953)

Anon.

Norfolk Folk-song (mezzo-soprano: Stephanie Allman)

Benjamin Britten

Suite No.3 for Cello Solo (3 movements) (Cello: Naomi Williams)

Pilgrimage to Walsingham

Graham Caldbeck (b.1950)

As you came from the holy land of Walsingham (from Pipe Dreams for Sir Walter, 1998)

Two Norfolk Folk-songs

arr. EJ Moeran (1894-1950)

The sailor and young Nancy

Peter Warlock (1894-1930) adap.C. Armstong Gibbs (1889-1960)

Yarmouth Fair

Songs by Cole Porter

arr. Andrew Carter

Night and day

arr. David Blackwell

Let's do it

Last updated 16 October 2001