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Overview
Ticket Prices: £25
Booking opens: 14 April
To mark the final day of the Egerton Music Festival, ten members of The Sixteen will perform a special programme drawing on the connection of spoken word, with poetry by Rosetti, Wordsworth, Shelley and T S Eliot, accompanying the music of Byrd, Palestrina, Hildegard, Finzi, Sheppard and Stanford.
PROGRAMME
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Hildegard
Ave, generosa (v 1-4)
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Palestrina
Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
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Pinsuti
Good night, good night beloved
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Palestrina
Duo ubera tua
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T.S. Eliot
Here let us stand (from Murder in the Cathedral)
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Medieval Carol
Saint Thomas honour we
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T.S. Eliot
We praise Thee, O God (from Murder in the Cathedral)
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Stanford
Three Poems by Mary E. Coleridge Op. 119
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Percy Shelley
Invocation
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Byrd
Diliges Dominum
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Hildegard
Ave, generosa (v 5-7)
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Finzi
Three poems by Robert Bridges
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William Wordsworth
To the Skylark
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Parry
My soul, there is a country
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William Wordsworth
Daffodils
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Palestrina
Vineam meam non custodivi
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Stanford
Oh! Breathe not his name
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Palestrina
Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
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Christina Rossetti
Twilight Calm
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Sheppard
Libera nos I and II
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor
- Antonia Christophers & Noel Byrne narrators