England's Finest – Nigel Short & Tenebrae Choir
Choir Concert
Thursday 12 August 2021
7.30 pm, Saanen Church
After their dazzling French evening during the “Parisian” summer of 2019, Nigel Short and his London-based Tenebrae Choir are back this time with an “at home” programme in a much narrower spectrum, as it features sacred works composed mainly in the 20th century. Alongside the “essential” Holst and Vaughan Williams there are pieces by Gerald Finzi – a friend of Vaughan Williams, who died in 1956 from chicken pox contracted during an outing with the latter near Gloucester – and Herbert Howells, also deeply influenced by Vaughan Williams.
Tenebrae Choir (London)
Nigel Short, Conductor
| Gustav Holst (1874-1934) | |
| «The Evening-Watch» | 4' |
| Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) | |
| Chant to Psalm 23 | 4' |
| Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) | |
| Three Short Elegies | 5' |
| Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) | |
| «Since I believe in God the Father Almighty» | 6' |
| Judith Bingham (1952) | |
| «A Walk with Ivor Gurney» | 12' |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) | |
| «Valiant for Truth» | 6' |
| Hubert Parry (1848-1918) | |
| «At the round earth’s imagined corners» | 7' |
| «Lord, let me know mine end» | 12' |
| Herbert Howells (1892-1983) | |
| Requiem | 20' |
| 65' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |
