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A Panorama of Sacred Choral Music

Author: hawkarine

Published: 27th April 2011 11:06

A Panorama of Sacred Choral Music

Doncaster Minster

Saturday 14th May 2011, 7:30pm

St Peter's Singers of Leeds

www.stpeters-singers.org.uk

On Saturday 14th May 2011 St Peter's Singers of Leeds will perform a Panorama of Sacred Choral Music at Doncaster Minster, starting at 7.30pm. The Singers, one of England's leading chamber choirs, will be giving a concert of English and Continental sacred choral music spanning five centuries. This will include repertoire to be performed during the Singers' forthcoming 2011 Tour of Brittany and Normandy. The recital will also include organ solos played by David Houlder, Sub-Organist of Leeds Parish Church, who is the Singers' regular accompanist.

Concert Programme

Purcell - Rejoice in the Lord alway - [The Bell anthem]
Tallis - Miserere nostri
Byrd - Ave verum corpus [Motet in honour of the Blessed Sacrament]
Philips - Ascendit Deus [Gradual of Ascension Day]

Organ Solo
John Cook - Mr Purcell's Wedding March - [Hornpipe]

Victoria - O quam metuendus est - [for the Dedication of a Church]
Palestrina - Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum
Victoria - Ascendens Christus in altum - [Ascension Day Motet]

Organ Solo
Guilmant - Sonata III in C minor Op 56, i - Preludio

Messiaen - O sacrum convivium
Duruflé - Ubi caritas - [Quatre Motets sur des themes Grégoriennes]
Duruflé - Tu es Petrus - [Quatre Motets sur des themes Grégoriennes]

Howells - Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks - [Four Anthems, 1940]
Howells - Mass in the Dorian Mode

Organ Solo
Howells - Master Tallis's Testament - [Six Pieces for Organ, 1940]

S S Wesley - Ascribe unto the Lord

St Peter's Singers at York Minster October 2008, photo by Andy Paraskos courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of York

Founded by Harry Fearnley in the Spring of 1977, St Peter's Singers is one of England's leading Chamber Choirs. Based at Leeds Parish Church, where rehearsals are held each Sunday evening from September to June, the Singers strive to combine excellence and enterprise. The Leeds organist and conductor, Dr Simon Lindley (Master of the Music at Leeds Parish Church and Leeds City Organist) has been Music Director of St Peter's Singers since the Choir's foundation.

St Peter's Singers have performed at York Minster, the Cathedrals of Derby, Ely, London's St Paul's, Ripon and Worcester. The Choir undertook its first overseas tour to Romania in November 2007, followed by a highly acclaimed visit to Mallorca in October 2009. The 2011 Tour of Brittany and Normandy will include recitals in the magnificent cathedrals of Vannes and Quimper. The Singers also recently took part in the live BBC TV production of Frankenstein's Wedding at Kirkstall Abbey and in the special Radio 4 Morning Worship broadcast from Leeds Parish Church celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the renowned first Organist of the then- new Leeds Parish Church.