The 30th Anniversary Concert offers a programme of music from the 16th century right up the present day. The setting of “Set me as a seal upon thine heart” by David Russell was composed in January 2023.
2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, one of England’s most influential musicians who helped shape the musical culture of Western Europe. Two of his motets are in our programme, including “Laudibus in sanctis” first published in 1591.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was strongly influenced by Tudor music and the English folk-song. We shall be performing two pieces from his collection of Five English Folk-Songs.
Also included are three pieces by the Latvian composer, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and music by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, and an arrangement of the English folk-song “O Waly, Waly” by Guy Turner, who was Musical Director of Yeovil Chamber Choir in 1994, shortly after it was formed.
John Mundy: The Blackbird
William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The dark eyed sailor | Just as the tide was flowing (From Five Folk Songs)
Edvard Grieg: Våren [Spring]
Eriks Ēŝenvalds: The Heavens’ Flock
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
Sergei Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Dyevo
Eriks Ēŝenvalds: The Earthly Rose
Guy Turner (arr): O Waly, Waly
Graham Coarman (arr): She moved through the fair
David Russell: Set me as a seal
Eriks Esenvalds: Salutation
William Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis
Josef Rheinberger: Abendlied
