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'Requiem'

Saturday 11th November, 2023

St. Martin's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

William Byrd's 'Mass for 5 Voices' interspersed with movements from the Requiems of Brahms, Howells, Rutter and Mozart

William Byrd - KYRIE

Johannes Brahms - Wie lieblich 

William Byrd - GLORIA

Herbert Howells - Requiem aeternam 

*Johann Sebastian Bach - Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 

William Byrd - CREDO

John Rutter - The Lord is my shepherd 

William Byrd - SANCTUS

 

INTERVAL

 

William Byrd - BENEDICTUS

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Dies irae 

William Byrd - AGNUS DEI

*George Thalben-Ball - Elegy   

Herbert Howells - Take him, earth, for cherishing

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*Organ solos

Philip Lawson, conductor

Simon Dinsdale, organ

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Sarum Reflections

with Barney Norris and John Cox

A concert of words and music in aid of St. Thomas's Appeal

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Saturday 1st July, 2023

St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

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Part One: Visitors to Salisbury

 

Shephard, Richard - To Music (written for the Farrant Singers)

 

       From: The Diary of Samuel Pepys Thursday 11 June 1668

       From: An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope

       From: English Hours by Henry James

 

Anonymous - Edi beo thu hevene quene (XIV c.)

 

       From: Travels and Travelling 1616-1653 by John Taylor 

       From: In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas 

       From: Guilt and Sorrow or Incidents on Salisbury Plain

                   by William Wordsworth 

       From: The Complete Adventures of Henry Chalk

                   by Nick Cowen

       From: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning 

                   by Laurie Lee 

 

Roth, Alec - Men and Angels (words by George Herbert)

(written for the Farrant Singers)

 

       From: Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

       From: The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster

 

Uffereri, Giovanni - Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei

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       A Walk in Melchester with Thomas Hardy

           From: The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–91 

           A Cathedral Façade at Midnight 

           From: Jude the Obscure - Part Third At Melchester 

           The High-School Lawn 

           From: Jude the Obscure - Part Third At Melchester 

           From: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 

 

Mackay, Andrew – Summer Dreams

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                                            INTERVAL

 

Part Two: Residents in Salisbury

 

Moody, Howard - Nonino (written for the Farrant Singers)

 

       A Walk in Salisbury with George Herbert

           The Water-course by George Herbert 

           From: The Life of Mr. George Herbert by Izaak Walton 

           Love III by George Herbert 

           Host by Vikram Seth 

 

Uttendal, Alexander - Inclina, Domine, aurem tuam

 

       From: Without Knowing Mr Walkley by Edith Olivier

       Home Thoughts in Laventie 1916 by Edward ‘Bim’ Tennant

       From: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

       From: The Spire by William Golding

 

Rheinberger, Josef - Abendlied

 

       From: The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul

       From: Ultimate Prizes by Susan Howatch

       From: Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd

 

Archer, Malcolm Cloths of Heaven

 

       From: Five Rivers met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris

 

Sullivan, Arthur - I hear the soft note

Pater Noster

Reflections on The Lord's Prayer

Saturday 4th March, 2023

St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

Plainsong (in procession)  -  Pater Noster (complete)

Plainsong line 1 -  "Pater noster....tuum" 

William Harris -  Holy is the True Light

Orlando di Lasso  -  Domine Dominus Noster

Plainsong line 2  -  "Adveniat....in terra"

Heinrich Schütz  -  Vater Unser

Anton Bruckner  -  Locus Iste

Plainsong line 3  -  "Panem....hodie"

Maurice Duruflé  -  Notre Père

 

READING 

 

Bob Chilcott  -  Oculi Omnium

Plainsong line 4  -   "Et dimitte .... Nostris"

John Tavener  -  The Lord's Prayer

Henry Purcell  -  Remember Not, Lord

Plainsong line 5  -  "Et ne nos.....amalo"

Richard Farrant  -  Hide Not Thou Thy Face

Igor Stravinsky  -  Pater Noster 

Plainsong (in recession). -  Pater Noster (complete)

Orlando Gibbons  -  Amen

INTERVAL

Claude Debussy  -  Trois Chansons de Charles D'Orleans

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SPIRITUALS

Arr. Lawson. -  Down to the river to pray

Arr. Knight. -  Swing low, sweet chariot

Arr. Overton  -  In the middle of the road

Arr. Lawson. -  Deep river

Arr. Park. -  Standing in the need of prayer

Conductor - Philip Lawson

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'Joy to the World'

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Saturday 18th December, 2021

St. Martin's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

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Programme

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Boris Ord - Adam lay y-bounden

                O come, o come Emmanuel

Arr. Lawson - Angelus ad Virginem

Francois Poulenc - Quem vidistis

Herbert Howells - Here is the little door

Arvo Pärt - Bogoroditse dyevo

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J.S. Bach - Air Pour Les Trompettes

  arr. Michael Allen

Michael Kamen - Quintet

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Morten Lauridsen -  O magnum mysterium

Herbert Howells - Sing lullaby

Francois Poulenc - Hodie

arr. Overton - Joy to the World

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George Frideric Handel - Hallelujah Chorus

               Unto us a boy is born

arr. Clements - Gabriel's message

arr. Wood - Ding dong! Merrily on high

arr Kay/Overton - Gaudete

                Once in Royal David's City

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arr. John Iveson - Christmas Crackers, A Carol Fantasy

                    We Wish You A Merry Christmas

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John Gardner - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Bob Chilcott - Shepherd's Carol

arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams - We've been a while a-wandering

               While shepherds watched

arr Lawson - Jingle bells

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Barbican Brass

Simon Dinsdale - organ

Philip Lawson - conductor

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Monteverdi: Vespers

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Saturday 20th November, 2021

Salisbury Cathedral

7pm

 

We joined Salisbury Musical Society as a guest choir, along with St. John's Singers and the Cathedral Choir, for this performance of Monteverdi’s famous Vespers of 1610

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The orchestral accompaniment was provided by period instrument ensemble Florilegium.   www.florilegium.org.uk

 

This concert was part of the Cathedral’s (belated) celebration of its 800th anniversary and was conducted by David Halls.

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'The Old Order Changeth'

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Saturday 23rd October, 2021

St. Martin's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

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Programme

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William Byrd - Sing joyfully

Thomas Tallis - Hear the voice and prayer

Orlando Gibbons - O clap your hands

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                                     Organ

                Richard Lloyd - Passion Chorale

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Edgar Bainton - And I saw a new Heaven

Charles Villiers Stanford - Justorum animae

Edward Bairstow - Lord, I call upon Thee

Sir Edward Elgar - Light out of darkness

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                                     Organ

                Richard Lloyd - Church Parade

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Richard Lloyd - View me, Lord

Richard Lloyd - All so still

Richard Shephard - The old order changeth

Richard Shephard - Never weather-beaten sail

Richard Shephard - The Birds

Richard Shephard - And when the builders

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Simon Dinsdale - organ

Philip Lawson - conductor

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Photograph by Anne Wiltshire

'Hail Gladdening Light'

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Thursday 16th April 2021

The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Kingston Deverill

8pm

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Programme

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David Briggs - Hail Gladdening Light

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Plainsong - Light's abode, celestial Salem

Robert White - Christe qui lux es

William Byrd - O lux beata

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Palestrina - Nunc Dimittis

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Théodore Dubois - Toccata for organ

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Sergei Rachmaninov - Svete Tihiy (O Gladsome Light)

Eric Whitacre - Lux aurumque

William Harris - Bring us, O Lord God

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Gustav Holst - Nunc Dimittis

 

Johann Sebastian Bach -  Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht

Chant - The Lord is my light (Psalm 27)

Johann Sebastian Bach - The duteous day now closeth

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Charles Wood - Hail Gladdening Light

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Chris Mahon - organ

Andrew Mackay - conductor

Christmas Concert

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Saturday 21st December, 2019

St. Martin's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

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Programme

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Handel - Coronation Anthems

        Zadok the Priest

        Let Thy Hand be Strengthened

        The King shall Rejoice

        My Heart is Inditing

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Carols for choir and audience and, of course,

join in the Hallelujah Chorus

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The Farrant Orchestra

Simon Dinsdale - organ

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Saturday 9th November, 2019

The Italianate Church, Wilton

7.30pm

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Programme

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Orlando Gibbons - Drop, drop slow tears (Song 46)

Orlando Gibbons - This is the record of John

Orlando Gibbons - O clap your hands

Henry Purcell - Rejoice in the Lord alway (The Bell Anthem)

Henry Purcell - Remember not, Lord, our offences

Henry Purcell - I was glad

Henry Purcell - Chaconne from The Fairy Queen

Henry Purcell - Hear my prayer

Henry Purcell - My heart is inditing

      

                                       INTERVAL

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Giacomo Carissimi - Jephte

                      

        Historicus              Andrew Stewart

         Jephte                    Morley Beswick

         Filia                         Abigail Hooper

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The Farrant String Ensemble

Mark Wood - organ

Peter Grove - harpsichord

Thursday 3rd October, 2019

St. Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne Priors

8pm

 

Programme

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Plainsong - Veni sancte spiritus

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Thomas Tomkins - When David heard

Peter Philips - O crux splendidior

Thomas Weelkes - When David heard

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C. Hubert H. Parry - My soul, there is a country

C. Hubert H. Parry - Never weather-beaten sail

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford - Beati quorum via

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John Tavener - A Hymn to the Mother of God

Pierre Villette - Hymne à la Vierge

Anton Bruckner - Ave Maria

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Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

Sergei Rachmaninov - Bogoroditse

Heinrich Isaac/ - The duteous day now closeth

  Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Joseph Rheinberger - Abendlied

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The Glory of Notre Dame - A Tribute

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Friday 21st June, 2019

Gillingham Methodist Church

7.30pm

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David Briggs - organ

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Programme

Louis Marchand (1669-1732) - Grand Jeu, 3e Livre d'Orgue (1696) 

Louis Couperin (1626-1661)- Chaconne in G 

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) - From ‘Pièces de Fantaisie’ 

        o   Cathédrales

        o   Carillon de Westminster

Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcribed by David Briggs -      Berceuse à la Mémoire de Louis Vierne

Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcribed by David Briggs -

Scherzo Symphonique Improvisée (November 1968) 

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Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) - Four motets on Gregorian themes

                                     Ubi caritas et amor

                                     Tota pulchra es

                                     Tu es Petrus

                                     Tantum ergo

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) - Messe Solonnelle in C sharp minor, 

Op. 16

'Beatitudes'

Choral Classics from around Europe

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Saturday 15th June, 2019

St. Mary and St. Nicholas' Church, Wilton

7.30pm

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Programme

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Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei

Plainsong - Assumpta est Maria

Palestrina - Missa Assumpta est Maria - Kyrie

William Byrd - Laudate Pueri

Palestrina - Missa Assumpta est Maria - Gloria

Orlando Gibbons - Fantasia for organ

Antonio Lotti - Crucifixus à 8

Palestrina - Missa Assumpta est Maria - Credo

Henryk Górecki - Totus Tuus

Palestrina - Missa Assumpta est Maria - Sanctus & Benedictus

Arvo Pärt - The Beatitudes

Palestrina - Missa Assumpta est Maria - Agnus Dei I

Matthew Martin - Vidi aquam

Palestrina - Missa Assumpta est Maria - Agnus Dei II

John Tavener - Song for Athene

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Mark Wood - organ.

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Seventh Heaven

A concert of sacred music form seven countries and seven centuries

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Thursday 9th May, 2019

St. Mary's Church, Stapleford

8pm (doors open at 7.30pm)

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Programme

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Plainsong - Veni sancte spiritus

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King John of Portugal - Crux Fidelis

Peter Philips - O crux splendidior

John Taverner - Dum transisset

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Thomas Tomkins - When David heard

Henry Purcell - Hear my prayer

Thomas Weelkes - When David heard

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C. Hubert H. Parry - My soul, there is a country

C. Hubert H. Parry - Never weather-beaten sail

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford - Beati quorum via

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John Tavener - A Hymn to the Mother of God

Pierre Villette - Hymne à la Vierge

Anton Bruckner - Ave Maria

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Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

Sergei Rachmaninov - Bogoroditse

Joseph Rheinberger - Abendlied

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John Sheppard - Libera nos, salva nos

Music for the Season of Lent

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Saturday 23rd March, 2019

St. Martin's Church, Salisbury

7.30pm

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Programme

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Gabriel Fauré - Requiem in D minor, Op.48

Frank Martin - Mass for double choir

Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence

                                Timor et tremor

                                Vinea mea electa

                                Tenebrae factae sunt

                                Tristis est anima mea

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John Challenger - organ

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A Selection of Recently Performed Works

 

Bob Chilcott - Salisbury Vespers - World Premiere

John Rutter - Gloria
Giovanni Gabrieli - In ecclesiis and Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus

J S Bach - Motets

Thomas Tallis - O sacrum convivium

Henry Purcell - Hear my prayer

William Harris - Faire is the heaven

Anton Bruckner - Christus factus est

Sergei Rachmaninov - Vespers

Charles Wood - Hail gladdening light

Charles Villiers Stanford - Eternal Father

Herbert Sumsion - They that go down to the sea

Arnold Bax - Mater Ora Filium

Malcolm Archer - Vespers - World Premiere

Jonathan Dove - Into Thy hands

Philip Moore - Three prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Paul Mealor - Now sleeps the Crimson Petal

Alison Duncan - Night

Alison Cameron - A child of the snows

Gabriel Jackson - The Spacious Firmament

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

Sir C. Hubert H. Parry - Songs of Farewell

Alec Roth - The Elixir*

Alison Cameron - A Foreign Field*

Maurice Duruflé - Requiem Op. 9

Richard Lloyd - Christus natus est* (For The Farrant Singers on their                                                                        60th anniversary, 2018)

Richard Shephard - And when the builders

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*First performance

Guest Artists

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Elizabeth Kenny - lute and theorbo

Reicho Ichise - viola da gamba

Guy Cutting - tenor

Andrew Littlemore - horn

Simon Dinsdale - organ

Edward Reeve - organ

Fisher Ensemble

Amy Carson - soprano

Timothy Dickinson - baritone

Alison Hill - soprano

Colin Howard - tenor

Simon McEnery - tenor

Jonathan Willcocks -  conductor

John Challenger - organ

Mark Wood - organ

 

 

 

 

 

Past Highlights

 

Tour to Galway .

Thursday 26th - Sunday 29th October 2017

The choir travelled to Galway on the invitation of Irish choir Cois Cladaigh and performed concerts in Clifden, Connemara and Galway City, as well as a Sunday morning service in St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway

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All the Queen's Men
Saturday 10th June 2017
St Michael the Archangel, Mere

Part of Flower and Music Festival 2017, Mere

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Brahms German Requiem

Saturday 11th February 2017

St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden 

Part of the Brandenburg Festival

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Magna Cantata

Tuesday 7th - Friday 10th July 2015

Salisbury Cathedral

A staged cantata written by Philip Lawson and Andrew Mackay to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta.

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