Hosted by the English Music Festival for the first time, we perform a programme of spellbinding English lyric by English composers.
Drawing on myths and legends sacred and profane, this concert includes many forgotten gems and will be an unforgettable experience in one of the finest churches in the country
Drawing on myths and legends sacred and profane, this concert includes many forgotten gems and will be an unforgettable experience in one of the finest churches in the country
Programme
Excalibur Voices are conducted by Duncan Aspden
Organ: David Goode
"Sacred Goddess"
Song of Proserpine - Coleridge Taylor
The spring-time of the year - Vaughan Williams
Helen of Kirconnell - Robin Milford
The scribe - Howells
Summer is gone - Coleridge Taylor
"Who to one God all belong"
This have I done for my true love - Holst
Corpus Christi Carol - Warlock
Live forever, glorious Lord - Dyson
The wilderness - Bainton
Valiant-for-Truth - Vaughan Williams
Interval
"Tinge the sullen wave"
I love my love - Holst
The lee shore - Coleridge Taylor
The dark-eyed sailor - Vaughan Williams
The Mermaid - Dyson
Thee will I love - Howells
"Beyond the sphere of grief"
Magdalen at Michael's gate - H Walford Davies
Death on the hills - Elgar
Heraclitus - Stanford
I know that my Redeemer liveth - McDowall
The lover's ghost - Vaughan Williams
Tickets
Online bookings: via English Music Festival (no longer on sale)
Practical information
Running time: Approximately 100 minutes including interval
For more practical information please see English Music Festival website
For more practical information please see English Music Festival website
