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A Night with the Choir Prog 18.5.19 AMC FAURÉ: CANTIQUE DE JEAN RACINE TAVENER: THE LAMB Welcome... From the DIRECTOR OF MUSIC A very warm welcome to you all and thank you for coming to St Bartholomew’s Church, Orford. The Choir always enjoy singing here with the Church’s beauty, vibrant acoustics, and its relationship with Benjamin Britten, who performed and recorded here on many occasions. Tonight’s concert shows the range of musical styles the Choir sing, from the 15th to the 20th Century. This is our last concert of the Season but we return to Snape Maltings on 23rd November with a performance of the Verdi Requiem and again on 21st March 2020 with a Bach and Vivaldi programme. We return to Orford on 16th May with music by Mozart, Purcell and Haydn. Edmond Fivet From the CHAIRMAN The choir has had a very enjoyable and successful 2018-19 season. No one will forget the atmospheric and sell-out performance of Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace, last November at Snape, held so close to the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice in the Great War. This was followed by a totally contrasting concert in March when we celebrated the genius of The Amazing Mr Handel in a number of his choral and instrumental works. Tonight’s performance gives us an opportunity to display more of the breadth of repertoire undertaken by the choir. At the end of the season on the choir’s behalf I must offer grateful thanks to all our patrons and sponsors for their continuing support. This support enables us to continue to perform such a varied and interesting repertoire. Hunter Smith Saturday 18th May 2019 at 7.30pm Orford Church Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures INTERVAL John Tavener: The Lamb Jacob Handl Gallus: Ecce Quomodo Moritur Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine Leonard Bernstein: Choral Medley – West Side Story Aldeburgh Music Club Choir James Recknell piano accompanist Edmond Fivet conductor Aldeburgh Music Club founded by Benjamin Britten in 1952 Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Sea Pictures (arranged for Chorus by Christopher Phelps) The first performance of this arrangement for Chorus and Piano was in March 2012 in Coggeshall, Essex with the Kelvedon Singers conducted by the arranger. The original piece was composed for contralto and orchestra, its first performance being on 5th October 1899 at St Andrew’s Hall Norwich as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Edward Elgar conducted with Clara Butt as the soloist. A few days later, on 7th October, at the St James’s Hall, London, the work was performed for the second time, in an arrangement by the composer for voice and piano with Clara Butt again singing and Elgar playing the piano. This arrangement, by Christopher Phelps, allows choral singers to perform this work of which Elgar was extremely fond and which has been frequently performed. There are five songs – ‘Sea Slumber Song’, ‘In Haven’ (Capri), ‘Sabbath Morning at Sea’, ‘Where Corals Lie’ and ‘The Swimmer’. John Tavener (1944-2013) The Lamb John Tavener composed ‘The Lamb’ in 1982 in a setting to words by the poet William Blake. It was first performed in December 1982 as part of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in Kings College Chapel in Cambridge. This is a very moving and beautiful short work, for a capella choir, and has become a well-known work throughout the world. Sir John Tavener composed a wide range of music, which included ‘The Whale’; ‘The Veil of the Temple’; ‘A Celtic Requiem’ and ‘Song for Athene’. Tavener converted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1977, and Orthodox theology and liturgical traditions greatly influenced his work. Tavener had considerable health problems throughout his life and died aged 69 in 2013. Jacob Handl Gallus (1550-1591) Little is known about Jacobus Handl, but he was a late Renaissance composer born in Slovenia in 1550, which at the time was part of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire. This motet was frequently sung at Protestant burials in the latter 16th Century. In the Good Friday Leipzig performances of Bach’s Passions, Handl’s ‘Ecce quomodo’ was sung at the end. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Cantique de Jean Racine Composed in 1865 as a competition entry, Fauré won the first prize. The Cantique has become one of Fauré’s most popular short pieces. The work is based on a 17th Century hymn by Jean Racine. Fauré was one of the most influential French composers of his time and leaves a fine legacy, his ‘Requiem’ being one of the most performed religious works of all. He died aged 79. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) West Side Story – Choral Medley Leonard Bernstein was a musical genius: composer, conductor, pianist and world class educationalist. For many years the Principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernstein had an international reputation and conducted (and recorded with) many of the world’s famous orchestras, including the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic. Bernstein had tremendous success in composing for Broadway including ‘Candide’, ‘Wonderful Town’, ‘On the Town’, ‘1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’ and, of course, ‘West Side Story’ with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Born in Massachusetts in 1918, Bernstein died in his beloved New York in 1990. Edmond Fivet © May 2019 Sea Pictures 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea 1. Sea Slumber Song The ship went on with solemn face: Sea-birds are asleep, To meet the darkness on the deep, The world forgets to weep, The solemn ship went onward. Sea murmurs her soft slumber-song I bow’d down weary in the place; On the shadowy sand For parting tears and present sleep Of this elfin land; Had weigh’d mine eyelids downward. ‘I, the Mother mild, The new sight, the new wond’rous sight! Hush thee, O my child, The waters around me, turbulent, Forget the voices wild! The skies, impassive o’er me, Calm in a moonless, sunless light, Isles in elfin light As glorified by even the intent Dream, the rocks and caves, Of holding the day glory! Lull’d by whisp’ring waves, Veil their marbles bright, Love me, sweet friends, this sabbath day. Foam glimmers faintly white The sea sings round me while ye roll Upon the shelly sand Afar the hymn, unaltered, Of this elfin land; And kneel, where once I knelt to pray, And bless me deeper in your soul Sea-sound, like violins, Because your voice has faltered. To slumber woos and wins, I murmur my soft slumber-song, And though this sabbath comes to me Leave woes, and wails, and sins, Without the stolèd minister, And chanting congregation, Ocean’s shadowy might God’s Spirit shall give comfort. Breathes good night, He who brooded soft on waters drear, Good night!’ Creator on creation. Hon. Roden Noel (1834–1894) He shall assist me to look higher, 2. In Haven (Capri) Where keep the saints, with harp and song, Closely let me hold thy hand, An endless sabbath morning, Storms are sweeping sea and land; And, on that sea commixed with fire, Love alone will stand. Oft drop their eyelids raised too long To the full Godhead’s burning. Closely cling, for waves beat fast, Elizabeth Barratt Browning (1806–1861) Foam flakes cloud the hurrying blast; Love alone will last. Kiss my lips, and softly say: ‘Joy, sea-swept, may fade to-day; Love alone will stay.’ Caroline Alice Elgar (1848–1920) 4. Where Corals Lie 5. The Swimmer The deeps have music soft and low With short, sharp, violent lights made vivid, When winds awake the airy spry, To southward far as the sight can roam, It lures me, lures me on to go Only the swirl of the surges livid, And see the land where corals lie. The seas that climb and the surfs that comb. By mount and mead, by lawn and rill, Only the crag and the cliff to nor’ward, When night is deep, and moon is high, The rocks receding, and reefs flung forward, That music seeks and finds me still, Waifs wreck’d seaward, and wasted shoreward, And tells me where the corals lie. On shallows sheeted with flaming foam. Yes, press my eyelids close, ’tis well; A grim, grey coast and a seaboard ghastly, But far the rapid fancies fly And shores trod seldom by feet of men – To rolling worlds of wave and shell, Where the batter’d hull and the broken mast lie, And all the lands where corals lie. They have lain embedded these long years ten. Love! when we wandered here together, Thy lips are like a sunset glow, Hand in hand through the sparkling weather, Thy smile is like a morning sky, From the heights and hollows of fern and heather, Yet leave me, leave me, let me go God surely loved us a little then. And see the land where corals lie. The skies were fairer, the shores were firmer, Richard Garnett (1835–1906) The blue sea over the bright sand roll’d; Babble and prattle, and ripple and murmur, Sheen of silver and glamour of gold. So, girt with tempest and wing’d with thunder And clad with lightning and shod with sleet, And strong winds treading the swift waves under The flying rollers with frothy feet. One gleam like a bloodshot sword-blade swims on The sky-line, staining the green gulf crimson, A death-stroke fiercely dealt by a dim sun That strikes through his stormy winding-sheet. O, brave white horses! you gather and gallop, The storm sprite loosens the gusty reins; Now the stoutest ship were the frailest shallop In your hollow backs, on your high arch’d manes.
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