The Sixteen and cellist Guy Johnston close the 2026 Hatfield House Music Festival with a special concert for Lord Salisbury – a luminous choral programme spanning Renaissance masters to contemporary works, featuring a specially commissioned piece by James MacMillan.
PROGRAMME
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Morley
April is in my mistress’ face
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Gibbons
The Silver Swan
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Byrd
This sweet and merry month of May
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Becky McGlade
A Birthday (for choir and cello)
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Palestrina
Surge amica mea from Song of Songs
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James MacMillan
Children are a heritage of the Lord (commissioned by the Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury to mark the 400th anniversary of Hatfield House in 2011)
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Palestrina
Surgam et circuibo civitatem from Song of Songs
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Taverner
Gaude plurimum
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Stanford
Three Elizabethan Pastorals Op. 49
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Palestrina
Vineam meam non custodivi from Song of Songs
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James MacMillan
Sedebit Dominus Rex
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Palestrina
Pulchrae sunt genae tuae from Song of Songs
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor
- Guy Johnston cello