Ceremonial music is also featured in this wonderful programme, including Walton's stirring Coronation Te Deum and Purcell's poignant Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. Choral classics by Biebl, Gabrieli, and Rachmaninov are topped-off with a good dollop of gospel pizzazz brass-style from Hazell's The Gospel Hall.

Timothy Brown conductor
Stewart French guitar

Musicke's Praier
Programme includes:
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis
Palestrina Super flumina Babylonis
Graham Ross Precor Te
Lotti Crucifixus
Allegri Miserere
Walton Cantico del Sole (Prayer of St Francis)
Pearsall Lay a Garland
Stanford The Blue Bird
Delius To be sung of a Summer Night on the Water
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs

Some music sings out for the acoustic of King's, and Allegri's famous Miserere is just one work amongst a luscious programme of Italian and English early and twentieth century choral music in which the English Voices show the supremacy of the choir in a glorious surrounding. The concert is enhanced by the soft addition of guitar to create a perfect summery ending to this year's Festival.

Andrew Nethsingha director
Leon Charles organ
Alison Martin harp
Cameron Sinclair percussion

Other works include: Purcell's Hear my prayer and Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Guerrero's O sacrum convivium, Viadana's Exultate justi, Francis Grier's Three devotions to Christ our Redeemer, and Elgar's Give unto the Lord.

For devotees of excellent choral music, no trip to Cambridge would be complete without hearing one of the University's best chapel choirs. We welcome St John's College Choir to the Festival for the first time in a programme with the favourite Bernstein's Chichester Psalms as its central choral work, as well as some of the loveliest Continental and English sacred choral masterpieces.The concert also features harp solos and a duet for percussion and organ.

This performance brings together many members of choirs from Cambridge and the surrounding area, including members of Cambridge University Musical Society and Cambridge Philharmonic Choral Society, into a glorious ‘Festival Chorus' under the baton of King's College Chapel's Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury. 

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Miranda Keys soprano
Richard Lloyd Morgan baritone
The Cambridge Orchestra

Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale) and Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op 45

Brahms's Requiem, his greatest choral work, is deeply personal, moving and expresses great hope, using inspiration from the Lutheran Bible to produce music that sings of human compassion, in German rather than the usual Latin.

A programme of music for a summer's evening with Madrigals, Part Songs, Folk Songs, close harmony and classics including songs by Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong and Michael Jackson.

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