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Chilcott Phibbs Etc Prog 25.5.2013 AMC Saturday 25 May 2013 Aldeburgh Music Club CHILCOTT PHIBBS KODALY Aldeburgh Music Club founded by Benjamin Britten in 1952 CELEBRATING THE BRITTEN CENTENARY www.aldeburghmusicclub.org.uk WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC A very warm welcome to tonight’s concert in the lovely setting of Orford Church. Our musical offering this evening is something rather special in that the three pieces we are performing were written in the 20th and 21st century. Bob Chilcott’s Requiem is dedicated to his niece, who died young whilst he was composing this piece and influenced its style and shape. Joseph Phibbs Choral Songs of Homage is an AMC commission to celebrate the Britten Centenary and tonight is its first performance. The Kodaly Missa Brevis, first performed during the siege of Budapest towards the end of the second world war, was written at a time of great uncertainty, danger and personal hardship. Three very different pieces each with its own message and very identifiable voice. I hope you enjoy the concert. Edmond Fivet Front cover The Family of Man by Barbara Hepworth at Snape Maltings Rear cover Photo of Benjamin Britten taken in 1975 by Victor Parker ©BPF – Image courtesy of www.britten100.org Saturday 25 May 2013 at 7.30pm St Bartholomew’s Church, Orford BOB CHILCOTT Requiem Zoë Bonner soprano, Greg Tassell tenor INTERVAL JOSEPH PHIBBS Choral Songs of Homage (world premiere) AMC commission to celebrate Britten’s centenary ZOLTAN KODALY Missa Brevis Imogen Parry, Chloe Watson, Freya Parry sopranos Aldeburgh Music Club Choir Prometheus Ensemble Edmond Fivet conductor Aldeburgh Music Club founded by Benjamin Britten in 1952 CELEBRATING THE BRITTEN CENTENARY Aldeburgh Music Club is a Registered Charity No 1000990 WELCOME FROM THE CHAIRMAN Welcome to the final concert in our 2012/13 concert season. This evening we are delighted to perform three contemporary choral works in the beautiful setting of Orford Church. Though each is very distinctive, these works have an atmospheric quality which complements the fine acoustics of the Church. Of special note this evening will be the premiere of Choral Songs of Homage by our composer-in-residence, Joseph Phibbs. This work has been commissioned by AMC to celebrate the centenary of our founder Benjamin Britten. We are grateful to the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust for awarding grants towards the cost of the commission and for a generous donation from Mr John Sims, patron and choir member. The first concert of our 2013/14 season will be our Britten Centenary concert which will be held on Saturday 23 November in Orford Church as part of the Britten Centenary weekend celebrations. The programme will include works by Britten and Purcell. The music will be complemented by words from those who knew Britten. As a tribute to the lasting cultural legacy that Benjamin Britten brought to Aldeburgh and the Suffolk coast, Aldeburgh Music Club in collaboration with our corporate sponsors Suffolk Cottage Holidays, have made a short film which can be seen on the AMC website www.aldeburghmusicclub.org.uk and the Visit Suffolk Coast website www.visit-suffolkcoast.co.uk. The commentary is by Humphrey Burton, President of AMC, and includes archive footage of Benjamin Britten. We hope you enjoy watching the film. Aldeburgh Music Club is indebted to the generous help and support of over 120 patrons, to our corporate sponsors Suffolk Cottage Holidays and Big House Holidays, and for many donations and gifts.. David R Smith Bob Chilcott (b. 1955) Requiem Bob Chilcott was born in 1955 and sang in King’s College Choir Cambridge as both a boy treble and undergraduate tenor. For many years he was a member of the King’s Singers, performing all over the world with frequent broadcasts and recordings. Bob Chilcott was conductor of the Royal College of Music Chorus for twelve years and is a guest conductor of the BBC Singers. Since 1977 Bob has focused on his compositional and conducting work. Chilcott’s Requiem is dedicated to his niece who died at the age of 23 whilst he was writing the piece, which explains some of the Requiem’s contemplative nature. The Requiem was premiered in 2010 at the Sheldonian in Oxford and quickly gained popularity so that it is now performed widely. There are many settings of the Requiem, some of them choral masterpieces, but Chilcott has chosen his own personal approach, which closely mirrors the texts he has chosen. Chilcott was also clear that he saw both a liturgical and concert place for his Requiem. ‘Grant them eternal rest, O Lord’, ‘Let perpetual light shine upon them’ and ‘Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts’, the only movement sung in English, typify Chilcott’s approach. Bob Chilcott has a very close association with Fauré’s Requiem which he sang every other year at King’s. He was the boy soprano soloist for ‘Pie Jesu’ in the 1967 recording by King’s College Choir, conducted by Philip Ledger, one of the best-selling recordings of the work. This long association with the Fauré influenced him in the writing of his own Pie Jesu, also for a soprano soloist. The Requiem has a soprano and tenor soloist. Edmond Fivet ©2013 Requiem Introit and Kyrie Introit and Kyrie Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and light perpetua luceat eis. perpetual shine on them. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur Thou art praised in Sion, O God, and homage votum in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam. shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer. Ad te omnis caro veniet. Kyrie eleison. All flesh shall come before thee. Lord have mercy. Christe eleison. Christ have mercy. Offertorio Offertorio Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera animas Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, free the souls of omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni all the faithful departed from the pains of hell and et de profundo lacu. from the deep pit. Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat tartarus, ne Free them from the jaws of the lion, lest hell cadant in obscurum. engulf them, lest they fall into darkness. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus. In praise we offer to thee, Lord, sacrifices and Tu suscipe, pro animabus illis, quarum hodie prayers. Receive them for the souls of those we memoriam facimus. remember this day. Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam, Make them, Lord, pass from death to life, as thou quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus. didst promise Abraham and his seed. Pie Jesu Pie Jesu Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem. Gentle Lord Jesus, grant them rest. Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis sempiternam requiem. Gentle Lord Jesus, grant them eternal rest. Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. highest. Blessed is He who cometh in the name of Hosanna in excelsis. the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. Agnus Dei Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the requiem, sempiternam requiem. world, grant them rest, eternal rest. Thou knowest Lord Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee. Lux aeterna Lux aeterna Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis Eternal light shine on them, O Lord, with thy tuis in aeternum, quia pius es. Requiem saints for ever, for thou art good. Grant them aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua eternal rest, O Lord, and light perpetual shine luceat eis. upon them. Requiem aeternam. Eternal rest. Joseph Phibbs (b. 1974) Choral Songs of Homage Joseph Phibbs was born in London and studied at The Purcell School with the support of a Suffolk County Council scholarship, before continuing his education at King's College London (B.Mus, M.Mus) where he graduated with First Class Honours, and Cornell University NY (DMA). His teachers have included Param Vir, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Steven Stucky, and his works have received widespread performances in the UK and beyond, including at the BBC Last Night of the Proms. He has been composer-in-residence at the Exon Singers Festival (2010) and the 2011 Presteigne Festival. Since 2003 Phibbs has combined his composing career with the promoting of Benjamin Britten's music, and was made a director of the Britten Estate in 2008. He is currently a visiting member of staff at the Purcell School and King’s College London, and composer-in-residence at Aldeburgh Music Club. Choral Songs of Homage was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Music Club to celebrate the centenary of their founder, Benjamin Britten. The opening song, Praise, begins where Britten left off, echoing the two-note opening melodic figure of his final work, the uncompleted cantata Praise We Great Men. Hush- a-ba Birdie, a setting of a traditional Scottish lullaby, is generally quick, the galloping ‘wild deer’ and ‘ringing bells’ evoked in a virtuoso piano accompaniment, before the song closes with a sense of repose and calm. I saw Eternity the other night draws upon one of Henry Vaughan’s most transcendental texts: a mystical contemplation of night, time, and space, featuring an array of closely-interwoven melodic lines and soft, sustained chords.
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