Armonico Consort Soloists are Jennifer Cearns, Áine Smith (soprano), David McGregor (counter-tenor), Ben Thapa (tenor), Gregory Bannan (bass) and Geoffrey Webber (piano, director). For the Bradfield Festival the Armonico Consort, in their 21st year, draw on their extensive repertoire of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque eras to music from the Romantic and modern periods.
Heavenly Bodies
The sun, moon, planet and stars align with music for a concert of heavenly musical delights. This astronomically varied programme includes those Renaissance composers who took inspiration from the music of the spheres (Monteverdi, Dowland) to the composers of the Romantic era (Schubert, Schumann) who were captivated by the moon. With a mixture of ensemble, upper-voice and solo pieces, the concert will feature familiar and possibly less familiar music.
Peter Philips (1561-1628) Assumpta est Maria
Emilio de’ Cavalieri (1550-1602) Chiostri altissimi
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) O stellae coruscantes
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Ye gentle spirits from the Fairy Queen
Giles Farnaby (1590-1640) The wavering planet
John Dowland (1563-1626) What poor astronomers
Thomas Bateson (1570-1630) Hark, hear ye not?
Henry Purcell ’Tis Nature’s Voice from Ode to St Cecilia
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) An den Mond,
An die Sonne,
Lebenslust
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Lied, from Drei Gedichte Op. 29 No. 2
Edward German (1862-1936) O Peaceful Night
Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) Luna
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Calme des nuits
Henri Duparc (1848-1933) L’invitation au voyage
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Automne
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) A dream
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) / Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918) I vow to thee my country
John Joubert (1927-2019) There is no rose
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) In splendour bright is rising now the sun,
The heavens are telling the glory of God from The Creation
