Programme of Events

Thursday 15 July

10am                         Mattins
The Choir of Chichester Cathedral
Te Deum                Ireland
Jubilate                  Boyce in C
S.S. Wesley            Wash me throughly

11.15am                  Talk by Dr Peter Horton - S.S. Wesley: Bicentennial
                                  thoughts on a maverick composer & organist

                           St John's Chapel
                           Admission free by kind invitation of the Church Music
                           Society

2pm                     S.S. Wesley Bicentenary Concert
The boy choristers and lay vicars of Chichester and Salisbury Cathedrals
S.S. Wesley           Praise the Lord, my soul
Philips                   Cantantibus organis
Philips                   Ascendit Deus
S.S. Wesley           Andante in C
S.S. Wesley           The Wilderness
Walton                  Jubilate
MacMillan              A new song
S.S. Wesley           Holsworthy Church Bells
S.S. Wesley           Cast me not away
Franz Bielbl            Ave Maria
S.S. Wesley           Blssed be the God and Father
Tickets                 £16 centre nave
                           £12 side aisles (restricted view)

4.30pm                   Evensong (on the Feast of St Swithun)
The boy choristers and lay clerks of Winchester Cathedral
Gray in F minor
Stanford               For lo, I raise up

7pm                        Celebrity Organ Recital - Thomas Trotter
J.S. Bach             Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541
Four anonymous 16th century pieces
Schumann            Six Fugues on BACH
Wammes              Miroir
Wagner arr. Lemare Overture: Die Meistersinger
Tickets                £10 (unreserved)  Big screen in Nave

8.30pm-10.30pm  Fringe Jazz Club
(also Wed 14 July) Cloisters Café and garden
Wide-ranging classic modern jazz from Force 8 with songs from special guests you might more usually see in cassocks... The Fringe Jazz Club offers a relaxed venue with bar and food.
Tickets                 £10 including a glass of wine or real ale and a bratwurst
                          sausage

Friday 16 July

11am                     Festival Eucharist
The boy choristers, lay vicars and lay clerks of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals
Palestrina            Missa Papae Marcelli
Guerrero             O sacrum convivium
Preacher: The Right Reverend Dr Kenneth Stevenson, formerly Bishop of Portsmouth

2.45pm                 Friday afternoon with Jonathan Willcocks
                        St Paul's Church
Renowned choral director Jonathan Willcocks creates a new choir with boys from local schools, plus the boy choristers of Chichester and Winchester Cathedrals. Jonathan will direct a workshop culminating in a performance of five of Britten's songs from the collection Friday afternoons.
Tickets               £8 (unreserved)

4.30pm                Evensong (on the Feast of St Osmund)
The boy choristers and lay vicars of Salisbury Cathedral
Sumsion in A
Aston                The true glory

7pm                      Robert Schumann's musical world
With David Owen Norris piano
The girl choristers of Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals and the lay vicars and lay clerks of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals
J.S. Bach          O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht
Buxtehude         Magnificat
Bruckner           Three motets
Brahms             Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann for piano duet, Op.23
Schubert          The Lord is my shepherd
Brahms             Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
Rheinberger       Abendlied
Mendelssohn      Verleih uns Frieden
Clara Schumann  Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann for piano, Op.20
Schütz              Selig sind die Toten
J.S. Bach           Lobet den Herrn
Tickets              £18 centre nave
                       £12 side aisles (restricted view)

8.30pm-10.30pm Fringe Jazz Club
                       Cloisters Café and garden
                       See Thursday evening for details

Saturday 17 July

11am and 2pm  Recital - Schumann in Love
                       Pallant House Gallery
Mark Wilde tenor
David Owen Norris piano
Schumann         Dichterliebe (Sung in English in a newly commissioned
                       translation by Amanda Holden)
Clara Schumann 3 Romances, Op.11
Tickets             £15 (unreserved), including admission to Pallant House Gallery
  
                     

4.30pm              BBC Choral Evensong
The girl choristers of Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals, and the lay vicars and lay clerks of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals
S.S. Wesley      Thou wilt keep him
S.S. Wesley in E
Harris               Faire is the heaven

7pm                    Concert
The boy choristers, lay vicars and lay clerks of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals
David Hurley countertenor
Katie Flanaghan harp
Richard Baker percussion
Simon Lawford organ
Andrew Lumsden organ solos
Elgar                Give unto the Lord
Whitacre           Lux Aurumque
Pärt                 De Profundis
Elgar                Pomp & Circumstance March No.4
Bernstein          Chichester Psalms
Barber              Variations on Wondrous Love
Barber              Agnus Dei
Parry                Blest pair of sirens
Tickets             £20 centre nave
                       £14 side aisles (restricted view)