Programme

Thursday 18 July

10am
Mattins
The Choir of Chichester Cathedral
Britten                  Te Deum in C
Britten                  Jubilate in E flat
Walton                  Set me as a seal

11.30am
Church Music Society Lecture
Benjamin Britten: Too original for his own good?
St John's Chapel
Paul Spicer discusses Britten's choral music in his centenary year
Free admission

2pm
Concert - Rejoice in the Lamb
The combined boy choristers and lay clerks
Hadley                  My beloved spake
Jackson                 Benedicite in G
Langlais                 Incantation pour un jour saint
Tye                      Omnes gentes plaudite
Byrd                      Laudibus in sanctis
Haydn                   In the beginning
                           The heavens are telling
Vaughan Williams     Hymn-Prelude on Rhosymedre
Britten                   Rejoice in the Lamb
Elgar                     Imperial March
Elgar                     Light of the world
Berkeley                Thou hast made me
Vaughan Williams     Let all the world

Tickets   £16 centre nave
             £12 side aisles (restricted view)

4.30pm
Evensong
The boy choristers and lay clerks of Winchester Cathedral
Daniel Purcell in E minor 
Henry Purcell          O God, thou art my God

7pm
Organ Recital - Mark Wardell
Tournemire             Improvisation sur le Te Deum
Vierne                   Meditation
Frescobaldi            Capriccio on the notes of the cuckoo
Buxtehude             Toccata in D minor, BuxWV 155
J.S. Bach               Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546
                           Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627
Heiller                   Choral Improvisation Victimae Paschali
Ireland                  Villanella (from the Suite for Organ)
Vierne                   Carillon de Westminster
Wardell                 Improvisation
Tickets   £12 (unreserved) Large TV screen in the nave    

8.30pm
Fringe Jazz Club
(also Wed 17 and Fri 19 July)
The Old Kitchen, Bishop's Palace
Jazz for all tastes performed by the Festival musicians with Mark Wardell at the piano. Barbecue and bar available.
Tickets   £5 (admission only)

Friday 19 July

10am
Sung Eucharist
The girl choristers of Salisbury Cathedral
Britten                 Missa brevis
Leighton               O sacrum convivium

11.30am and 2.30pm
Poulenc and the Painters: a Programme of Portraits
Pallant House Gallery
David Wilson-Johnson baritone
David Owen Norris piano
Poulenc                Song-cycle Le travail du peintre
                          Piano Variations Les soirées de Nazelles
Tickets   £15 (unreserved - includes admission to Pallant House Gallery)

4.30pm
BBC Choral Evensong
The combined boy choristers and lay clerks
Lloyd                 The Call
Dyson in D
Britten               Hymn to St Cecilia

7pm
Concert - Stabat Mater
The girl choristers of Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals and the combined lay clerks
Britten               Hymn to St Peter
                        A Hymn of St Columba
                        A Hymn to the Virgin
J.S. Bach            Fugue on the Magnificat, BWV 733
Gesualdo            Ave, dulcissima Maria
Poulenc              Litanies à la vierge noire
Alain                  Litanies
Poulenc              Salve Regina
Britten               Festival Te Deum
Buxtehude          Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 149
Scarlatti             Stabat Mater
Tickets   £20 centre nave
             £14 side aisles (restricted view)

8.30pm
Fringe Jazz Club
The Old Kitchen, Bishop's Palace
The Fringe Jazz Club returns for a final session in the Old Kitchen with a range of jazz for all tastes performed by the Festival musicians and guests, with Mark Wardell at the piano. Barbecue and bar available.
Tickets   £5 (admission only)

Saturday 20 July

11am
Festival Eucharist
The combined boy choristers and lay clerks
Haydn                 Missa Sancti Nicolai
MacMillan            The Offered Christ (SCF 2013 Commission)
Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Ison, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral

2.45pm
Pallant Charitable Trust Prize Final Concert
St Paul's Church
The girl choristers of Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals and West Sussex County Youth Choir
The first performance of the shortlisted entries for the Pallant Charitable Trust Prize, followed by a discussion of their works between the composers and James MacMillan, and the final judging and presentation of prizes.
Tickets   £10 (unreserved)

6pm
Concert - St Nicolas
The combined boy choristers and lay clerks
Southern Sinfonia
Andrew Lumsden organ soloist
Vaughan Williams        O be joyful in the Lord
Poulenc                    Organ Concerto
Britten                      St Nicolas
Tickets   £25 centre nave
            £18 side aisles
            £12 south transept

Sunday 21 July

Services sung by the Choir of Chichester Cathedral
10am
Mattins
Boyce in A
S.S. Wesley      Cast me not away

11am
Sung Eucharist
Vierne              Messe Solennelle
Bairstow           I sat down

3.30pm
Evensong
Stanford in A
Parry               Blest pair of sirens
Harris              Bring us, O Lord God