A New Heaven: 1000 years of sacred choral music

Saturday 17th October 2009 - SEASON CONCERT
The Oratory, Birmingham, 7.30pm
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Jeffrey Skidmore - Conductor
Forget your worldly worries and enjoy an evening of glorious choral music. We launch our XL anniversary season with a selection from the repertoire Ex Cathedra has been privileged to present over the last 40 years - the best, the unfamiliar and the unexpected.
'Jeffrey Skidmore has the enviable gift of concocting a witches’ brew of fascination in his programming' (The Birmingham Post)
£25 (£22.50) / £20 (£18) / £12.50 (£11) / Unreserved £7
Call 0121 780 3333 or book online here.
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Programme includes:
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), Messe de Nostre Dame - Kyrie
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Messe en Sol majeur - Gloria
Alonso Lobo (1555-1617), Versa est in luctum
John Stainer (1840-1901), God so loved the world
James MacMillan (b.1959), Christus vincit
William Byrd (1540-1623), Mass for Four Voices - Agnus Dei
Orlande de Lassus (c.1532-1594), Ave verum
Antonio Lotti (1667-1740), Crucifixus a 8
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), Lamentations of Jeremiah - Part I
C. Hubert Parry (1848-1918), Jerusalem
John Joubert (b.1927), O Lorde, the maker of al thing
Patrick Dunachie (b.1993), Prophecy of Joel
Edgar Bainton (1880-1956), And I saw a new heaven
William Harris (1883-1973), Faire is the Heaven
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Agnus Dei
Eric Whitacre (b.1970), i thank You God for most this amazing day