CONCERT PROGRAMME
Join us at one of our upcoming events in 2024
Underneath the Stars
Saturday 18th May 2024, 7.30pm
The Quire, York Minster
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The Ebor Singers draw on music from the 16th century to the present day at this atmospheric candlelit concert, exploring light and darkness, love and grief, and the night sky.
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From the Renaissance glories of the evening service of Compline, to Romantic visions of the beauty of the night, to the shimmering beauty of Esenwalds’ Stars and Whitacre’s Sleep, to arrangements of popular classics. The programme will also include Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei, his own choral arrangement of his Adagio for Strings.
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Music to include Parsons’ Ave Maria, Esenwalds’ Stars and Whitacre’s Sleep.
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Tickets for the concert, which will take place in York Minster’s Quire, are now available using the link below. Tickets cost £20 each, a concessionary price of £12 is available for students and those aged 25 and under. Children under 16 go free.
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Festival of Faith and Music
Organised by the Church Times and the RSCM, this new venture of a Festival of Faith and Music offers a stimulating programme of music and worship, talks and workshops in the wonderful city of York. The aim has been to put together a weekend that celebrates church music in all its glory – and that will send you home encouraged, inspired and equipped with new, and practical ideas to try in your home parish.
The Ebor Singers are delighted to be involved, offering a practical demonstration of the Great Sacred Music resource book at 12.15pm on Saturday 27th April, and Compline in York Minster that evening at 8.30pm.
2024
29th June 2024
Rachmaninov Vespers
St Lawrence's Parish Church, York
By candlelight
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‘Even in my dreams I could not have imagined that I would write such a work.’
Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil (or, as it is popularly known, Vespers) Op.37 is a beautiful and moving setting of texts from the Russian Orthodox Church liturgy. It was composed in 1915 just before the Russian Revolution and is considered by many to be the culmination of an era of Russian sacred music. Rachmaninov was so fond of the work that he requested that the 'Nunc Dimittis' be sung at his funeral. Best known for his symphonies and piano works, this brilliant choral work - a long-time favourite of the choir - is conceived on a symphonic scale.
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Details and ticket bookings available soon.
12th October 2024
Surround Sound
The Chapter House, York Minster
By candlelight
The Ebor Singers take us on a journey in music from plain chant to 40 parts, in the world-famous acoustic of York Minster's Chapter House. This atmospheric concert will culminate in a performance of Tomas Tallis' Spem in Alium.
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Details and ticket bookings available soon.
"The Ebor Singers impart a natural, unflamboyant grace"
The Independent