EVENT PROGRAMME
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The Sound of Drums:
Music from the English Civil War
Saturday 17th May
The Quire, York Minster, 7.30pm
The Ebor Singers, an Associate Choir of York Minster, offer an evening of music from the Siege of York in 1644. The choir will trace the course of the Civil War with music from the court of Charles 1 and songs performed in York Minster during the Siege as a place of sanctuary. Based around the 'York' psalms of William Lawes, this fascinating programme of music composed around a time of huge political, social and religious upheaval, includes work by William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, and John Hutchinson.
'‘brilliantly executed and beautifully sung’ The Sunday Times
‘beautifully performed, of very high quality’ Classic FM
‘joyous, bustling musicianship' Gramophone
Path of Miracles
Victoria: Requiem
Joby Talbot: Path of Miracles
Saturday 27 September
The Quire, York Minster, 7.30pm
Joby Talbot’s stunning work Path of Miracles follows the most enduring route of Catholic pilgrimage, the pilgrimage to Santiago, with the movements of Path of Miracles titled with the names of the main staging posts of ‘Camino Frances’. Keeping with the Spanish theme, the programme also features the Requiem by 16th -century Spanish composer Tomas Luis de Victoria, the composer’s last published work and seen as the last flowering of Renaissance polyphony.
Joby Talbot has gone on quite a significant journey of his own, starting his career as arranger for pop group Divine Comedy (credits include Father Ted) but now much in demand as a film and TV composer, music for ballet, and his first opera Everest has just opened in Dallas. ‘This remarkable work captures the wonder of the medieval traveller, with long unfolding melodies and rhythms reflecting the long arduous journey, before glorious sonorities at the arrival at Santiago di Compestella’, says Paul Gameson, the choir’s director, ‘and the acoustic of the Quire is ideal for Talbot’s sound world’.
"The Ebor Singers impart a natural, unflamboyant grace"
The Independent