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The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation present the premiere performances of three new works by Lucy Walker, Millicent B James and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade.
Angels are all around us. So started a discussion between John Studzinski (philanthropist and founder of the Genesis Foundation) and the late Robert Willis (poet, cleric and Dean of Canterbury Cathedral until 2022). Often angels are introduced into stories and creative art as signs of a spiritual dimension which is beyond our human conceiving. There is in fact a much wider acceptance of the concept of angels in the minds and hearts of people of all faiths and none. Robert was commissioned by John to write a series of poems about Angels as messengers, ministers, warriors and worshippers, with John then commissioning three young composers to set these poems to music.
The result is three wonderfully contrasting works by Lucy Walker, Millicent B James and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, forming the core of a programme devoted to texts reflecting the importance of angels in the present and the past. These new commissions sit alongside works by three great masters of the renaissance, Guerrero, Palestrina and Victoria, and a piece by one of today’s most admired composers, Sir James MacMillan.
PROGRAMME
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Guerrero
Duo Seraphim
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Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
The Call of Gideon (new commission)
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Palestrina
Ave maris stella
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Millicent B. James
The Call of Isaiah (new commission)
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Victoria
Ne timeas Maria
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14th-century
Angelus ad virginem
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Victoria
Alma redemptoris Mater a8
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Lucy Walker
The Song of James the Son of Zebedee (new commission)
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Palestrina
Angelus Domini descendit de caelis
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor