Leeds-based St Peter’s Singers are no strangers to innovation, and on Sunday 3 July (8.00pm) they present a programme at St Michael’s, Headingley, Leeds (LS6 3AW) including no fewer than six works written by or for members of the choir.
Entitled Music of the Mystics, the recital will include settings by well-known composers such as Vaughan Williams, Finzi [1901-1956], Leighton, Barber, Parry and Wood [1866-1926]of poets such as George Herbert, William Blake, Robert Southwell, Richard Crashaw and Gerald Manley Hopkins.
But it will also comprise the first performance of a work created by two choir members, Hannah Stone (poet) and Matthew Oglesby (composer) along with first performances of works written by Philip Moore and David Hill for conductor Dr Simon Lindley’s 65th birthday, as well as a work by choir member Alasdair Jamieson and two other works by Matthew Oglesby.
Rise, heart, thy Lord is Risen – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sweet Day – Ralph Vaughan Williams
O Salutaris Hostia – David Hill
Evening Hymn – Philip Moore
The Lamb – Charles Wood
Never weather-beaten sail – Hubert Parry
Heaven-haven – Samuel Barber
God’s Grandeur – Kenneth Leighton
The Burning Babe – Alasdair Jamieson
Stay, stay said Earth – Matthew Oglesby
O send out thy light – Matthew Oglesby
Picking fruit on the Eve of the Transfiguration – Matthew Oglesby
Lo, the full final sacrifice – Gerald Finzi
Quentin Brown – baritone
David Houlder – organ
St Peter’s Singers
Simon Lindley – Conductor
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