Concerts

 

Saturday 27 February 2010 at 7.30pm
The Quire, York Minster by candlelight

FAURÉ:   Requiem

and choral music by Philip Moore


with

Andrew Thompson bass

David Pipe organ

Of the many settings of the Requiem, Fauré’s is possibly the most widely-loved. Compared with versions by other Romantic composers, Faure’s seems gentle and unassuming, yet it is this very quality of understatement which contributes so eloquently to the work’s universal appeal. Philip Moore retired as organist of York Minster in July 2008 but has continued to be active as composer and performer, and is The Ebor Singers' President.. We perform a selection of his works, including Pilgrimage, commissioned by the choir for its 15th-anniversary.

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Saturday 15 May 2010 at 7.30pm
The Chapter House, York Minster


Songs of Remembrance
Music by Purcell, Sheppard, Charpentier and Schutz

Musical homages by 16th- and 17th-century composers to commemorate the death of a patron or contemporary, including In media vita by John Sheppard, the Funeral Sentences by Henry Purcell, a Requiem setting by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and motets fromHeinrich Schutz’s Musikalische Exequien.


Tickets £12 / £10 concessions / £3


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Saturday 12 June 2010 at 7.30pm
The Chapter House, York Minster


Songs of Farewell

PARRY: Songs of Farewell
KERRY ANDREW: York Mass (UK concert premiere)

Parry’s cycle of six part songs were composed in the last years of the First World War and the composer’s own life, and so have been seen as a swansong for a passing generation. The cycle’s musical expression and sensitivity to textual meaning and inflexion have rarely been exceeded in English music. Rising new composing-talent Kerry Andrew has a close association with The Ebor Singers, and her York Mass was commissioned by the choir for its 15th-anniversary in 2008.


Tickets £12 / £10 concessions / £3


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