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My spirit sang all day
Choral songs of the world and the spirit
April 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Music by Palestrina, Parry, Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Finzi, MacMillan, Whitacre and more
Saturday 26 April 3.00pm
St John’s Sharow nr Ripon HG4 5BJ
St Peter’s Singers return to the superb acoustics of St John’s, Sharow with another programme that offers a superb variety of choral music with something for everyone to enjoy.
Refreshments will be served and the concert will finish about 4.15pm
What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon?
Held within the exquisite venue of St John’s, Sharow, this concert offers a choral tapestry celebrating and illustrating the wonderful variety and richness of Western choral music.
Alongside a heady mix of Romantic-era poetry and love songs, the programme includes the spiritually profound music of Palestrina, marking 500 years since his birth, and a contemporary masterpiece of Sir James MacMillan, born in 1959.
So there is something here for everyone to enjoy, and something to maybe touch the soul where other songs don’t reach.
St Peter’s Singers are passionate about the music we sing and want to share it with as many people as possible. We do all we can to make anyone who comes to our concerts feel welcome and at ease. So if you’ve not tried this music out before, why not come along and bring a friend? St. John’s Church is an accessible venue with good facilities. Everyone is welcome.
St Peter’s Singers
Alexander Woodrow conductor
Programme
| Missa Aeterna Christi Munera | Pierluigi da Palestrina |
| Miserere | James MacMillan |
| Dum transisset sabbatum | John Taverner |
| This joyful Eastertide | arr Charles Wood |
| Interval | |
| Lay a garland | Robert Pearsall |
| The Blue Bird | Charles Villiers Stanford |
| The Turtle Dove | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Linden Lea | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Lux Aurumque | Eric Whitacre |
| My love dwelt in a Northern Land | Edward Elgar |
| My spirit sang all day | Gerald Finzi |
| The long day closes | Arthur Sullivan |
| My soul, there is a country | Hubert Parry |