Tenebrae; Olivia Jageurs harp

Sounds of the Solstice - Tenebrae 20th Anniversary

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Change of Programme
The programme for the above concert has changed slightly and will now be as follows:

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Olivia Jageurs harp
Tenebrae
Rachel Haworth soprano
Victoria Meteyard soprano
Hannah King soprano
Emma Walshe soprano
Katie Trethewey soprano
Rosanna Wicks soprano
Hannah Cooke alto
Elisabeth Paul alto
Martha McLorinan alto
Eleanor Minney alto
Ben Alden tenor
Jeremy Budd tenor
Nicholas Madden tenor
Toby Ward tenor
Joseph Edwards bass
Simon Whiteley bass
Owain Park bass
Jimmy Holliday bass
Tom Herring bass

The group celebrates its two decades with a programme focused on the winter and summer solstices, and thus moving from darkness to light. Winter at its coldest is represented by the pieces by Joanna Marsh, Maxwell Davies and Poulenc, while a leading harpist joins the choir for the Holst settings that hail the coming of spring. The programme ends with John Rutter’s hymn of thanks.

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
- - Sermons and Devotions
    - The seasons of his mercies
Bob Chilcott (b.1955)
- - Before the ice (O magnum mysterium)
Joanna Marsh (b.1970)
- - In Winter’s House
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
- - O Magnum Mysterium Op. 13a
Jeffrey Mumford (b.1955)
- - Caprice (Homage to Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
- - Un soir de neige
Interval
Ēriks Ešenvalds (b.1977)
- - Stars
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
- - The Planets Op. 32
    - Venus, the Bringer of Peace (arranged by Olivia Jageurs for solo harp)
  - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda Op. 26
    - Hymn to the Dawn
    - Hymn to the Waters
    - Hymn to Vena
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- - O wild west wind Op. 53 No. 3
Healey Willan (1880-1968)
- - Rise up, my love
James MacMillan (b.1959)
- - The Strathclyde Motets
    - O Radiant Dawn
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012)
- - Song of June
John Rutter (b.1945)
- - Hymn to the Creator of Light