Music by Maurice Duruflé, Frank Martin, Claude Debussy, Eric Whitacre, Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge
Sunday 10th August 2007, 8pm – St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
Festival Concert
G F Handel
Coronation Anthems
J S Bach Magnificat in D
with The St Giles’ Chamber Ensemble
Tickets (£10, under-16s free) may be obtained from members of the Choir and through the Festival Fringe Society.
Saturday 7th June 2008, 8pm –St Giles’ Cathedral, High St., Edinburgh
Music by Maurice Duruflé, Frank Martin, Claude Debussy, Eric Whitacre, Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge
Saturday 8th March 2008, 8pm –St Giles’ Cathedral, High St., Edinburgh
Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor; Valiant for Truth
Benjamin Britten Rejoice in the Lamb; Te Deum
Arnold Bax Mater Ora Filium
Tuesday 11th December 2007, 7.30pm – St Margaret Episcopal, Easter Road., Edinburgh
Music for Advent and Christmas
A programme of carols, seasonal motets and organ music
Saturday 17th November 2007, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High St., Edinburgh
J S Bach Jesu, Meine Freude; Fürchte Dich Nicht
Heinrich Schütz Motets from Geistliche Chormusik
Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo
Claudio Monteverdi Dixit Dominus; Beatus Vir
Sunday 12th August 2007, 8pm – St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
Festival Concert
J S Bach Mass in F, BWV 233
Joseph Haydn Te Deum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Coronation Mass, KV 317
with The St Giles’ Chamber Ensemble
Saturday 9th June 2007, 8.00pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
The Spanish Connection
Music by Jean Berger, Antonio Soler, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Francisco Guerrero and Ariel Ramirez
Saturday 10th March 2007, 8.00pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
The Way of the Cross
Franz Lizst Via Crucis
Herbert Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing; Requiem
Saturday 2nd December, 6pm – Lauder Parish Church
Christmas at Lauder
A programme of carols, seasonal motets and organ music
Saturday 18th November 2006, 8pm – St Giles' Cathedral, Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Bach Inspired
J S Bach Komm, Jesu, komm; Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Gustav Holst Nunc dimittis
Giles Swayne Magnificat
Felix Mendelssohn Motets for double choir, Opus 78, a capella
Jonathon Harvey I love the Lord
Sunday 13th August 2006, 8pm – St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
Festival Concert
Handel Dixit Dominus
Mozart Vespere Solennes de Confessore (K339)
with The St Giles’ Chamber Ensemble
Saturday 10th June 2006, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
Summer Nights: Motets, Chansons and Madrigals
Palestrina Tu es Petrus
Josquin des Prez Ave Maria
Passereau Il est bel et bon
Delius To be sung of a summer night on the water
Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno; Ave Maria
Debussy Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans
Janequin Le chant de oiseaux
Guerrero Ave virgo sanctissima; Duo seraphim
Morten Lauridsen Madrigali
Saturday 25th March 2006, 7.30pm – Reid Memorial
Church, West Savile Terrace, Edinburgh
Mendelssohn Richte mich Gott
Bruckner Motets:
Locus iste;
Christus factus est;
Os justi
Brahms Three Festival Anthems, op. 109:
Unsere Väter;
Wenn ein starker Gewappneter;
Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk
Parry (from the Songs of Farewell):
My soul there is a country;
Never weather-beaten sail;
There is an old belief
Stanford The Bluebird
Vaughan Williams The Turtle Dove;
Three Shakespeare Songs
Saturday 11th March 2006, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
Passion and Resurrection
Schütz Matthäuspassion
Schütz Historia de Auferstehung Jesu Christi (with the Squair Mile Consort of Viols)
Saturday 19th November 2005, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
For all the saints
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb
Macmillan Christus vincit
Finzi Lo! the full, final sacrifice
Stanford Magnificat, Opus 164
Leighton Sequence for All Saints
Sunday 14th August 2005, 8pm – St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
Festival Concert
Bernstein Chichester Psalms
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine
Tippett Five Negro Spirituals from A Child of our Time
Faure Requiem
Saturday 11th June 2005, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
Victoria Missa Dum complerentur
Byrd Gradualia for Whitsuntide
Gorecki Totus tuus
Poulenc Mass in G
Saturday 12th March 2005, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
Buxtehude Magnificat
Distler Totentanz op. 12 no. 2
Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri (with the Squair Mile Consort of Viols)
Saturday 13th November 2004, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
Bach Motet: Jesu, meine freude
Maxwell Davies New work – commission for Making Music
Harvey Missa Brevis
Part De Profundis
Nystedt Immortal Bach
Sunday 15th August 2004, 8pm – St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
Festival Concert
Bach Johannes-Passion (with the St Giles’ Chamber Orchestra)
Saturday 5th June 2004, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
The Romantic Mass
Bruckner Mass in E minor
Jongen Mass
Saturday 24th April 2004, 7.30pm – West Linton Music Society
A varied programme of sacred and secular music by Byrd, Parsons, Ramsey, Stanford, Walton, Howells, Brahms, Britten and Rutter
Saturday 15th May 2004, 7.30pm – Peebles
Programme as for West Linton above
Saturday 13th March 2004, 8pm – St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh
This Sceptred Isle
Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor
Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing
Jackson O sacrum convivium
Leighton Crucifixus pro nobis
MacMillan Christus vincit
Burrell Benedicam Dominum
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