SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 10am *Worthy is the Lamb* (world premiere)
World premiere during Solemn Mass at St Barnabas, Royal Tunbridge Wells
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 7.30pm *In the year that King Uzziah died*
Symphony No.3 by Vierne - Organ Recital given by Charles Cole
The London Oratory, Brompton Road, London SW7
Mendelssohn: Sonata No.3 in A major
Naji Hakim: Mariales
Antony Pitts: In the year that King Uzziah died
William Cole: Prelude on 'Down Ampney'
Vierne: Symphony No.3
Admission: free, retiring collection
NEW CD *Don't talk - just listen!* SIGCD174
New works by Christopher Fox, Gabriel Jackson, Antony Pitts, Robert Saxton
This album presents a selection of works commissioned by The Clerks over the
last decade, and is their first devoted entirely to contemporary music.
"'Thou wast present as on this day' is a motet for three pairs of voices and
was commissioned as part of 'In memoria' - a live electro-acoustic concert
programme devised by Antony Pitts and Edward Wickham for The Clerks and
subsequently remixed and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 for the Between the Ears
strand. The text is for Holy Saturday or Easter Eve and has its origins in
the Orthodox liturgy; the music builds directly on two sources: a Messianic
theme from the composer's oratorio 'Jerusalem-Yerushalayim' and Josquin des
Prez's 'Nymphes des bois'. Josquin's memorial motet is, in turn, the
central source for the sound collage which threads through 'In memoria',
evoking a dialogue between our own synthetic age and the deep music of
memory represented by the greatest late-mediaeval and early-Renaissance
composers. 'Thou wast present as on this day' celebrates and mourns the
past, the present, and eternity together: the text is heard three times - in
three different places, as it were - and the three pairs of voices weave an
increasingly intricate texture around a luminous major triad."
NEW CD *Dreamland* HYP41
Contemporary choral riches from the Hyperion catalogue - Geoffrey Burgon,
Ruth Byrchmore, Bob Chilcott, Rihards Dubra, Gabriel Jackson, Morten
Lauridsen, Pawel Lukaszewski, James Macmillan, Nicholas Maw, Arvo Pärt,
Antony Pitts, John Tavener, Randall Thompson, Veljo Tormis, Pierre Villette,
Eric Whitacre
A new and intriguing sampler features a selection of pieces from Hyperion's
extensive and varied choral collection. This disc seeks to give a flavour of
the contemporary choral music recorded by Hyperion over the last decade.
Whilst on one level it can stand alone as a tribute to the beauty of its
composers' writing and choirs' singing, it also lifts the lid on the albums
from which the tracks are drawn. A perfect introduction to the magic new
worlds of sound that await the listener.
"The two Hyperion discs of compositions by Antony Pitts are represented here
by his imaginative setting of St Thomas Aquinas's thirteenth-century text
Adoro te. From a seemingly simple beginning, this communion hymn gains in
urgency as each voice of the composer's own choir, TONUS PEREGRINUS, enters
until the ultimate wish of seeing Christ face to face is expressed in
memorably fervent fashion."
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