Your events at Classical Events
Search concerts
Parry I Was Glad and other popular anthems
Part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London 2018 Spring Series
Add to my Calendar 11-03-2018 19:00 11-03-2018 21:00 36 Parry I Was Glad and other popular anthems We welcome the City of Oxford Choir to the Autumn Series with this programme exploring the English choral tradition's fine repertoire of anthems. Tonight's concert features works spanning the centuries, from Byrd and Tomkins in the Renaissance to James MacMillan and Jonathan Dove in the present day. The remarkable contribution made by English composers in the first half of the twentieth century is particularly well represented, with offerings from Bairstow, Elgar, Harris, Howells and Wesley, as well as perhaps the most famous work on the programme, Parry's dramatic I was glad. Join us in the beautiful and historic Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow. For more information please click here. St Mary-le-Bow Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary-le-Bow Church
Cheapside
City of London
London
EC2V 6AU
England
Programme
James MacMillan – Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn
Herbert Howells – Like as the Hart
William Byrd – Civitas Sancti Tui
Edwin Henry Lemare – Andantino in D flat
Edward Cuthbert Bairstow – Save us, O Lord
William Harris – Faire is the heaven
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Peter, Op.56a
Samuel Sebastian Wesley – The Wilderness
Norman Cocker – Tuba Tune
Thomas Tomkins – When David heard
Edward Elgar – Ave Maria, Op.2 no.2
Jonathan Dove – Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
Performers
Duncan Aspden – Conductor
Peter Jaekel – organ
City of Oxford Choir
Other concerts in this Festival
Programme Note
We welcome the City of Oxford Choir to the Autumn Series with this programme exploring the English choral tradition's fine repertoire of anthems. Tonight's concert features works spanning the centuries, from Byrd and Tomkins in the Renaissance to James MacMillan and Jonathan Dove in the present day. The remarkable contribution made by English composers in the first half of the twentieth century is particularly well represented, with offerings from Bairstow, Elgar, Harris, Howells and Wesley, as well as perhaps the most famous work on the programme, Parry's dramatic I was glad. Join us in the beautiful and historic Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow.
For more information please click here.
