Canterbury Music Club

 “A Christmas Celebration”

 Sunday 18^th December 3.00pm

Colyer Fergusson Hall

University of Kent

Amici Chorus

Bayle Cantata

SLBGS Girls Choir

Canterbury Camerata

(Stelios Chatziiosifidis, leader)

 

Alex Rider, harp

 

Sarah Hale, soprano

Becky-Ellice Creighton, soprano

Emily Renshaw-Kidd, mezzo

Jennifer Joosten Brisk, alto

Robin Whitehouse, tenor

 

Christopher Gower, continuo

Grenville Hancox,

director

  

“This concert, one of eight in the 81^st season of performances presented by Canterbury Music Club, ends my forty-year engagement with music making in Canterbury. The performers represent the wealth of musical expertise and creativity associated with Canterbury many of whom studied at Canterbury Christ Church University, now professional musicians or are members of the Canterbury Cantata Trust founded in 2012 with its strapline of "Caring through Singing". All performers are friends in music and today we celebrate both the past and the future confident that music will continue to change the world!”

 

Grenville Hancox

 

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PROGRAMME

Magnificat

    Vivaldi (1678-1741)

1. Magnificat

2. Et exultant

3. Et Misericordia

4. Fecit Potentiam

5. Deposuit Potentes

6. Esurientes implevit

7. Suscepit Israel

8. Sicut Locutus

9. Gloria

 

Love Came Down at Christmas

Christopher Gower

Words:

Christina Rosetti (1830-94)

 

A Ceremony of Carols

Britten (1913-1976)

1.  Procession

     ‘Hodie Christus natus est’

2.  Wolcum Yole

3.  There is no rose

4.  That yongë child

5.  Balulalow

6.  As dew in April

7.  This little Babe

8.  Interlude

9.  In Freezing winter night

10. Spring Carol

11. Deo Gracias -

      Adam lay i-bounden

12. Recession

     ‘Hodie Christus natus est’

 

INTERVAL

  

Messiah excerpts

Handel (1685-1759)

           Sinfonia (Overture)

Recit.  Comfort ye my people

Air       Ev’ry valley shall be

              exalted

Chorus  And the Glory of the

              Lord

Recit.   Behold, a virgin shall

              conceive

Chorus  O thou that tellest

              good tidings to Zion

Chorus  For unto us a child is

              born

            Pifa (Pastoral

              Symphony)

Recits.  There were

               shepherds abiding

               in the field

             And lo, the angel of

               the Lord came

               upon them

             And the angel said

               unto them

             And suddenly there

               was with the angel

Chorus   Glory to God

Recit.    Then shall the eyes

               of the blind be

               open

Air         He shall feed his

               flock like a

               shepherd

Chorus   His Yoke is easy, and

               his burthen light

Chorus   Surely he hath borne

                our griefs

Chorus   And with his stripes

Recit.    All they that see him

               laugh him to scorn

Chorus   He trusted in God

Recit.    Thy rebuke hath

               broken his heart

Air         Behold, and see if

               there be any

               sorrow

Recit.    He was cut off from

               the land of the

               living

Air         But thou didst not

                leave his soul in

                hell

Chorus   Lift up your heads,

               O ye gates

Chorus   Since by man came

               death

Chorus   Hallelujah

Chorus   Worthy is the lamb

                that was slain

 

There will be a retiring

collection for the

Motor Neurone Disease

Association