Programme

I was glad	Hubert Parry
Never weather beaten sail	Hubert Parry
I know my soul hath power	Hubert Parry
There is an old belief	Hubert Parry
Organ solo: Psalm Prelude Set 2, No 3	Herbert Howells
Zadok the Priest	Georg Friedrich Handel
My heart is inditing	Georg Friedrich Handel
Abendlied	Josef Rheinberger
Lux aeterna	James MacMillan
Interval
Vinea mea electa	Francois Poulenc
Timor et tremor	Francois Poulenc
Organ solo: Rhosymedre	Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Hills	John Ireland
Linden Lea	Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Turtle Dove	Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Blue Bird	Charles Villiers Stanford
Weaver Bird	Matthew Oglesby
Organ solo: Tu es Petrus	Jeanne Demessieux
Tu es Petrus	Palestrina
Tu es Petrus	Philip Moore

Anthony Gray organ

St Peter’s Singers

Alexander Woodrow director

This programme incorporates a delightful mix of styles and sounds. There’s a nod to the Queen’s Jubilee with two of Handel’s Coronation Anthems and Parry’s I was glad, together with three of his beautiful Songs of Farewell. Rheinberger’s Abendlied (Evening Hymn) brings a more reflective mood, while James Macmillan’s Lux aeterna allows us to briefly revisit our Songs of Solace recital last October and remember those lost in the pandemic.

After an interval, two of Poulenc’s short Motets take us briefly to the very different sound world of twentieth century French spiritual music, before we switch to a more relaxed set of secular part songs, including the well-known Linden Lea by Vaughan Williams and Stanford’s gorgeous The Blue Bird. This group finishes with Weaver Bird, a short composition by our in-house duo poet Hannah Stone and composer Matthew Oglesby.

We finish, fittingly for a choir with our name, with two settings of the text Tu es Petrus (‘You are Peter’), one by the 16^th century master Palestrina, and the other composed for our 40^th anniversary in 2017 by Philip Moore, formerly Organist of York Minster.

Anthony Gray plays the organ and Alex Woodrow directs.