The Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge (yes, that Cambridge) Performing at RiverCenter 2017-Dec-9
This was my top pick for the first full Monday-to-Sunday week of December, 2017. Click this sentence to see the post where I listed it and a bunch of other music events happening Dec. 4-10.
The internationally acclaimed Choir of Clare College, Cambridge will present a concert of Christmas music on Saturday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and their director Graham Ross present a sumptuous Christmas programme in praise of the Virgin Mary and the coming of the light. Renaissance masterpieces, including Tallis’s sublime Videte miraculum and Hieronymus Praetorius’s Christmas Magnificat (performed with its original interpolated carols) sit alongside more recent much-loved seasonal works, including motets by Mathias, Britten, Tavener, Rutter and Ross, and some highly-catchy arrangements guaranteed to put you in the festive mood. A perfect start to the Christmas season.
Since its founding as a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs, keeping an active recording, broadcasting and performing schedule. The Choir has produced an impressive discography of more than forty recordings. Their recordings under director Graham Ross on the Harmonia Mundi label have been released to great critical acclaim, garnering multiple international nominations and awards.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at RiverCenter’s box office Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., by phone at 706-256-3612, and online at www.rivercenter.org.
Below the release is a video from the group's YouTube channel, followed by the full program as currently listed on the group's engagement page on its website at http://www.clarecollegechoir.com/engagements. Also on that page is info about a workshop the choir's director will do at 6:30 ET with some of Columbus's local choirs. I don't have a contact for that event. It looks like the 7:30 concert will include two pieces with those local choirs. -PMc
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The internationally acclaimed Choir of Clare College, Cambridge will present a concert of Christmas music on Saturday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and their director Graham Ross present a sumptuous Christmas programme in praise of the Virgin Mary and the coming of the light. Renaissance masterpieces, including Tallis’s sublime Videte miraculum and Hieronymus Praetorius’s Christmas Magnificat (performed with its original interpolated carols) sit alongside more recent much-loved seasonal works, including motets by Mathias, Britten, Tavener, Rutter and Ross, and some highly-catchy arrangements guaranteed to put you in the festive mood. A perfect start to the Christmas season.
Since its founding as a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs, keeping an active recording, broadcasting and performing schedule. The Choir has produced an impressive discography of more than forty recordings. Their recordings under director Graham Ross on the Harmonia Mundi label have been released to great critical acclaim, garnering multiple international nominations and awards.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at RiverCenter’s box office Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., by phone at 706-256-3612, and online at www.rivercenter.org.
Program for Dec. 9
THOMAS TALLIS (c. 1505–85) Videte miraculum
PLAINSONG Verbum supernum prodiens
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (c. 1525–94) Surge, illuminare
WILLIAM BYRD (c. 1539/40–1623) Vigilate
*TRADITIONAL arr. MACK WILBERG (b. 1955) Ding, Dong! Merrily on high
HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS (1560–1629) Magnificat quinti toni (with Josef lieber and In dulci jubilo)
JOHN TAVENER (1944–2013) Today the Virgin
JOHN TAVENER God is with us
– interval –
CHARLES WOOD (1866–1926) Hail, gladdening light!
TRADITIONAL Gaudete
JOHN JOUBERT (b. 1927) Torches
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–76) A Hymn to the Virgin
PIERRE VILLETTE (1926–98) Hymne à la Vierge
JOSHUA PACEY (b. 1995) I sing of a maiden (world première)
*JOHN RUTTER (b. 1945) What sweeter music
WILL TODD (b. 1970) My Lord has come
FRANZ GRÜBER (1787–1863) arr. GRAHAM ROSS (b. 1985) Silent night (world première)
WILLIAM MATHIAS (1934–92) A babe is born
JAMES BURTON (b. 1974) Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Arr. JAMES MAWSON (b. 1988) Santa Baby
Trad. arr. FREDERIC AUSTIN (1872–1952) arr. IAN HUMPRHIS (1927–2012) The Twelve Days of Christmas
*performed with local choirs
PLAINSONG Verbum supernum prodiens
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (c. 1525–94) Surge, illuminare
WILLIAM BYRD (c. 1539/40–1623) Vigilate
*TRADITIONAL arr. MACK WILBERG (b. 1955) Ding, Dong! Merrily on high
HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS (1560–1629) Magnificat quinti toni (with Josef lieber and In dulci jubilo)
JOHN TAVENER (1944–2013) Today the Virgin
JOHN TAVENER God is with us
– interval –
CHARLES WOOD (1866–1926) Hail, gladdening light!
TRADITIONAL Gaudete
JOHN JOUBERT (b. 1927) Torches
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–76) A Hymn to the Virgin
PIERRE VILLETTE (1926–98) Hymne à la Vierge
JOSHUA PACEY (b. 1995) I sing of a maiden (world première)
*JOHN RUTTER (b. 1945) What sweeter music
WILL TODD (b. 1970) My Lord has come
FRANZ GRÜBER (1787–1863) arr. GRAHAM ROSS (b. 1985) Silent night (world première)
WILLIAM MATHIAS (1934–92) A babe is born
JAMES BURTON (b. 1974) Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Arr. JAMES MAWSON (b. 1988) Santa Baby
Trad. arr. FREDERIC AUSTIN (1872–1952) arr. IAN HUMPRHIS (1927–2012) The Twelve Days of Christmas
*performed with local choirs
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