The Colour of Song, Moffat

Old Well Theatre, Old Well Road, Moffat
Friday, 04 March 2011, 7.30pm

The programme The Colour of Song is an inspirational journey of a cappella music both sacred and profane.  The concert contains a wide variety of pieces including Elizabethan compositions, Victorian Songs, Folk music and Close Harmony selection, including New York, New York and I wanna be like you. The wide variety of pieces spanning five centuries of music show how the genre is very much alive and still inspiring composers today.

Madrigals from Britain
Sing we and Chant it, Thomas Morley
Full Fathom Five, Charles Wood
The Silver Swan, Orlando Gibbons
It Was a Lover, John Rutter
Hate Whom Ye List, Thea Musgrave
Weep o Mine Eyes, John Bennett

Church Music
O Nata Lux, Thomas Tallis
Hosanna to the Son of David, Thomas Weelkes
Remember Not Lord Our Offences, Henry Purcell

Victorian Part Songs
Music When Soft Voices Die, C Hubert Parry
Come Live With Me, William Sterndale Bennet
Lay a Garland, Robert Pearsall

Marriage of Figaro Overture, Mozart arr. Ben Parry

Geographical Fugue, Ernst Toch

Folk Songs
Ye Banks and braes, arr. Ben Parry
O Gin I Were Where Gadie Rins, arr. Ken Johnston
Sally Gardens arr. Ben Parry
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron, arr. John Rutter

Flower songs, Britten

Close Harmony Selection
We’ll Gather Lilacs, Novello arr. Ben Parry
Blue Moon, Rodgers/Hart arr. Seers
Sailing, Sutherland arr. Ben Parry
New York, New York, Kander/Ebb arr. Ben Parry
I wanna be like you, Sherman/Sherman arr. Ben Parry

Can't make it? Consider buying one of our recordings:

Esther (1720) - Handel Mass in B Minor - J.S. Bach Matthew Passion - J.S. Bach Acis and Galatea - G.F. Handel Messiah – G.F. Handel In the beginning