Programme

Southern Cathedrals Festival 2012

Thursday 19 July

10.00am

Mattins sung by Salisbury Cathedral Choir (girls/men)

Rose Responses, Ireland Te Deum in F, Sanders Jubilate, Mival 'And singing say' (world premiere)

2.00pm

Concert ‘A Year in Music’ sung by the combined boys choirs/combined men/organ


Advent

Naylor Vox dicentis


Christmas

Rutter There is a flower


Epiphany

Purcell Jehova, quam multi


Lent

Mendelssohn There shall a star, Litaize Epiphanie (organ solo), Elgar Seek him that maketh (Men)


Passiontide

Sanders The Reproaches


Easter

Vaughan Williams Rise, heart


Ascension

Gibbons O clap your hands together, Messiaen Transport de Joie (organ solo)


Whitsun

Attwood Come, Holy Ghost


Sea Sunday

Sumsion All they that go down to the sea


Trinity

Stainer I saw the Lord

4.30pm

Evensong sung by Chichester Cathedral Choir.

Reading ResponsesPsalms 98-101, Ireland in F, Ireland Greater Love

6.00pm

Youth in Music (1) at the Cathedral School.

Joseph Wicks (piano), Kirsty Hobkirk (horn)

7.00pm

Celebrity Organ Recital (with big screen) Gillian Weir

9.15pm

Late night Bach by Candlelight - Bach Partitas 1 and 3 performed by David Halls and Alistair Watson - followed by drinks

Friday 20 July

11.00am

Festival Eucharist sung by combined boys/Salisbury girls/combined men).  Preacher: Professor Ben Quash, Professor of Christianity and the Arts, King's College, London



Frank Martin

Mass for Double Choir



Villette

O salutaris

2.30pm

Choral Masterclass led by Malcolm Archer – Chichester and Salisbury boy choristers/Salisbury Cathedral Junior Choir at St Thomas’s Church

Vaughan Williams The Call, SS Wesley Love one another, Durufle Pie Jesu, Ireland Ex ore innocentium

4.30pm

Evensong sung by Winchester Cathedral Choir

Clucas Responses, Psalm 104, Howells in G, Brahms Geistliches Lied

6.00pm

Youth in Music (2) at the Cathedral School

Joseph Wicks (piano), Caroline Halls (soprano)

7.00pm

Concert ‘Requiem’ sung by Salisbury and Winchester girl choristers, men of Salisbury, Chichester and Winchester Cathedrals, Alison Hill (soprano) and La Folia



Bach

Lutheran Missa Brevis in F BWV233



Mozart

Regina coeli K108



Michael Haydn

Requiem

9.15pm

Late Night Bach by Candlelight - Bach Partitas 2 and 5 performed by Ian Wicks and Tim Hone - followed by drinks

Saturday 21 July

Open rehearsal 9.30am-12.30pm for Messiah in the cathedral

11.00am

Youth in Music (3) at the Cathedral School

Alex Coplan (piano)

2.00pm

Youth in Music (4) at the Cathedral School

Joseph Wicks (piano), Kirsty Hobkirk (horn), Caroline Halls (soprano), Alex Coplan (piano), Eleanor Bonney (violin)

4.30pm

BBC R3 Choral Evensong sung by Salisbury and Winchester girl choristers and men 



Radcliffe

Giles Swayne

Responses

Magnificat



Wood

Nunc dimittis in Bb



SCF Commission – Neil Cox

7.00pm

Concert Handel’s Messiah sung by the combined boy choristers and men of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedrals, with Charivari Agreable Simfonie.