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Jubilate! programme history

20 March 2010
Keble College Chapel
Director: Simon Whalley
Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith
Soprano: Christina Shand
Alto: Henry Jones
Tenor: William Balkwill
Bass: Gabriel Gottlieb

Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia, A Hymn of St Columba
Britten: Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria (organ solo)
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb

12 December 2009
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
Director: Simon Whalley
Sopranos: Ruth Jenkins, Jennifer Snapes
Countertenor: Roderick Morris
Tenor: Adrian Lowe
Bass: Gabriel Gottfried
Organ: James Gough
Violin 1: Caroline Balding, Camilla Scarlett
Violin 2: Liz Hodson, Julian Smith
Viola: Heather Birt, Aliye Cornish
Violoncello: Judith Dallosso, Spike Wilson
Double bass: Elizabeth Harre

Handel: Dixit Dominus
Trad: Up! good Christen folk, and listen
Warlock: Adam lay ybounden
arr. Carter: A maiden most gentle
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541 (organ solo)
Darke: In the bleak mid-winter
arr. Willcocks: The Infant King
Mathias: Sir Christèmas
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas carols

27 June 2009
Holywell Music Room
Director: Simon Whalley
Piano: Clive Driskill-Smith
’Cello: Ben Etherton
Double bass: Pual Jefferies
Reader: Kate Littlewood

William H Harris: Faire is the Heaven
Shakespeare: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun (reading)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Simon Whalley: Sonnet (first performance)
William H Harris: Bring us, O Lord God
Benjamin Britten: Fancie
Shakespeare: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows; Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day (readings)
George Shearing: Songs and sonnets from Shakespeare
Shakespeare: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again; If we shadows have offended (readings)
Thomas Morley: It was a lover and his lass

21 March 2009
Keble College Chapel, Oxford
Director: Simon Whalley
Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith
Trumpet: Gary Howarth, Jack Tinker
Trombone: Aidan Chamberlain, Paul Lambert, Robb Tooley
Drums: Laurie Barrow

Henry Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord; O God, the King of glory
Michelangelo Rossi: Toccata Settima (organ solo)
Henry Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Anton Bruckner: Virga Jesse; Locus iste; Os justi
Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre (organ solo)
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria; Afferentur regi; Christus factus est; Ecce sacerdos

13 December 2008
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Director: Simon Whalley
Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith

John Tavener: O, do not move
Thomas Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
John Tavener: God is with us
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est
Samuel Scheidt: A child is born in Bethlehem
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Trad. Gaudete
Jacob Handl: Resonet in laudibus
William Mathias: A babe is born

21 June 2008
St Giles Church
Director: Simon Whalley

Repeated on 24 June at East Hendred

Morten Lauridsen: Ave Maria; Les chansons des roses: En une seule fleur; Contre qui, rose; De ton rêve trop plein; La rose complête; Dirait-on
Samuel Barber: Heaven-Haven; Sure on this shining night; Agnus Dei
Eric Whitacre: Water Night (not performed at East Hendred)
Aaron Copland: Old American Songs: Zion's Walls; Simple Gifts; Ching-a-Ring Chaw; Long Time Ago; At the River; I Bought Me a Cat
Simon Whalley: American Fold Song arrangements: Aura Lea; Oh! Susanna (and others); Moon River 
Harold Arlen arr. Guy Turner: Over the Rainbow

Duruflé: Ubi Caritas; Tota Pulchra es; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo
Fauré: Messe Basse
Franck: Panis Angelicus
Villette: Hymne à la Vièrge
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Duruflé: Requiem

Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
Berkeley: I Sing of a Maiden
Simon Whalley: There is no Rose
John Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God
arr. Stephen Cleobury: Joys Seven
Grayston Ives: This is the Record of John
Poston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Marcel Dupré: Theme and Variations sur un Noël 6-10
Howells: Sing Lullaby
Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Walton: All this Time
John Gardner: Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day

Pearsall: Lay a Garland
Stanford: The Blue Bird
Stanford: Three Latin Motets
Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (organ solo)
Howells: Like as the Hart
Tippett : Five Negro Spirituals
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Elgar: Sonata in G, Allegro maestoso (organ solo)
Elgar: Give unto the Lord

Monteverdi: Vespers

Monteverdi: Nisi Dominus (from the Vespers)
Byrd: Magnificat(from The Great Service)
Monteverdi: Lauda Jerusalem (from the Vespers)
Byrd: Nunc Dimittis(from The Great Service)
Monteverdi: Ave Maris Stella (from the Vespers)

Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Hugh Brunt: Lully, Lulla,thou little tiny child (new commission for Jubilate)
Berkeley: I Sing of a Maiden
Darke: In theBleak Midwinter
Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
arr. Pearsall: In Dulci Jubilo
arr. Stephen Clarke: I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas

Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Janequin: Le Chant des Oiseaux
Michael Hurd: A Song for St Cecilia
Wert: Vezzosi augelli
Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno
Palestrina: La ver aurora
Monteverdi: Quel augellin

Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm; Jesu, meine Freude; Singet dem Herrn
Bach: Trio Sonata
Bach: Fantasia in C minor; Chorale Prelude ‘O Mensch Bewein’

Tippett: Early one morning
Gow: Three Canzonets
Finzi: I praise the tender flower; Haste on, my joys!

Mozart: Vedrai, carino (from Don Giovanni)
(Soprano: Hilary Brennan; Piano: Sarah Lister)

Sermisy: Puisqu’en amour a si grand passetemps
Lassus: Bonjour, mon coeur
Pearsall: Lay a garland

arr. Quilter: My Lady’s Garden
(Tenor: Jonathan Smith; Piano: Sarah Lister)

Seiber: Yugoslav Folk Songs

Britten: Five Flower Songs

Delibes: Dôme Épais (from Lakmé)
(Sopranos: Hilary Brennan, Liz Treasure; Piano: Sarah Lister)

arr. Blackwell: Blue Moon, Let’s do it

Mayerl: Marigold
(Piano: Arry Fraser, Sarah Lister)

arr. Swingle: L’amour de moi
Grainger: Country Gardens

Viadana: Exsultate justi
Gibbons: O clap your hands
Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo

John Sanders: Toccata
(organ solo: Robert Patterson)

Arvo Pärt: Magnificat
(soprano: Teresa Armstrong)
John Madden: Jubilate Oxoniensis
Jonathan Dove: Ecce beatam lucem

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
(soprano: Emma Patterson
alto: Sarah Lister
tenor: Jonathan Smith
bass: Barnaby Newbolt)

Howells: Te deum and Jubilate
(sung with past members of Jubilate)

Vaughan Williams: The hundredth psalm

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
(sopranos: Fiona Mills, Arry Fraser; tenor: Tom Ibbotson)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Five Carols
Jonathan Dove: Wellcome, all wonders in one sight
Bocanegra: Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Fernandes: Xicochi xicochi conetzintle
Trad: Gaudete
Praetorius: Omnis mundus jocundetur
Victoria: Magi viderunt stellam Zabe

l: Sad Marguerite at the spinning wheel
(Harp solo: Deian Rowlands)

Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Leighton: Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
(soprano: Teresa Armstrong)
Trad, arr Carter: Esta noche
(soprano: Liz Treasure)
Pierpont, arr Allwood: Jingle Bells 10 December 2005
St Barnabas Church, Jericho
Director: Stephen Clarke
Organ: Timothy Morris
Readings by Catriona Bass, Barnaby Newbolt, Liz Treasure, Stephen Garner

Byrd: O magnum mysterium; Clarifica me, Pater III (organ); Rorate caeli desuper
Poulenc: O magnum mysterium; Quem vidistis pastores dicite; Videntes stallam;
Hodie Christus natus est
Alain: Petite pièce (organ)
Howells: Sing lullaby; Long, long ago; Preludio sine nomine (organ); Tryste noel
Matthias: A babe is born, Bell Carol, Sir Christèmas
Hairston (arr. Gritton) Mary’s boy child
Berlin (arr. Clarke) White Christmas

Flanders and Horovitz: Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

Wood: Full Fathom Five
Elgar: The Shower
Delius: To be sung of a summer night on the water

Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals – Tortoises; The Elephant
(piano duet: Rachael Claridge and Arry Fraser)

arr. Chilcott: Didn’t it rain
arr. Van Leaman: Stormy Weather (soloist: Liz Treasure)
arr. Whitworth: The Mermaid
Toch: Geographical Fugue
arr. Guy Turner: Over the Rainbow

Janacek: Otcenas
Tucapsky: Five Lenten Motets
Gretchaninov: The Creed; Our Father
Pärt: Solfeggio; The Beatitudes
Patatich: Contorni (harp solo)
Pärt: Littlemore Tractus
Gorecki: Totus Tuus

Esquivel: Vox Clamantis in Deserto
E W Naylor: Vox Dicentis: Clama
Pärt: Magnificat
Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
Poulenc: O Magnum Mysterium; Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite
Mouton: Quaeramus Cum Pastoribus
Gabrieli: Angelus Ad Pastores Ait
Bennett: Out of your Sleep
Adam: O Holy Night (soloist: Liz Treasure)
Tavener: The Lamb
Britten: A Shepherd’s Carol; Chorale on a French Carol
Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium

Finzi: I praise the tender flower; My spirit sang all day; Nightingales
Gow: O mistress mine; I am gone, Sir; Come away, death; When that I was
Lassus: Bonjour, mon coeur; Avecques vous; La nuict froide et sombre; Je l’ayme bien; Margot labourez les vignes
Poulenc: Margoton va t’a l’iau; La belle se sied au pied de la tour; Pilons l’orge
Saint-Saens: Calme des nuits; Les fleurs et les arbres
Passereau: Il est bel et bon
Debussy: Dieu! Qu’il la fair bon regarder!
Holst: Dream tryst; Come to me
Rutter: It was a lover and his lass
Grainger: Brigg Fair (soloist: Jonathan Smith); Country gardens

Palestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera

Stravinsky: Pater Noster
Maxwell Davies: Our Father
Duruflé: Notre Père
Wylkinson: The Apostles’ Creed

Anon: Perspice Christicola
Sanders: The Reproaches
Tucapsky: Pater Mi
Lotti: Crucifixus
Tallis: In Manus Tuas
Sisask: Stabat Mater
Tavener: Funeral Ikos

Vivaldi: Gloria
Pergolesi: Magnificat

Alec Redshaw: I sing of a maiden
Berkeley: I sing of a maiden
Tavener: Today the Virgin
Joubert: There is no rose
Rodney Bennett: There is no rose
Rodney Bennett: Sweet was the song
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
arr. Andrew Carter: The twelve days of Christmas
Catalan carol: El noi de la mare

Purcell: Come, ye sons of art
Purcell: My beloved spake

Duruflé: Motets
Poulenc: Salve Regina
Rutter: Childhood lyrics

Byrd: Mass for four voices

Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice
Stanford: Justorum animae; Coelis ascendit; Beati quorum via
Walton: A Litany; Set me as a seal; Jubilate Deo

Handel: Messiah (Part 1)

Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
Howells: Sing lullaby
Matthias: Sir Christèmas
Warlock: Bethlehem down

Gritton: close-harmony pieces from ‘Follow that star’
Twelve days of Christmas (arr. for The Kings’ Singers)

Bernstein: Chichester psalms
Barber: Agnus Dei

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Vaughan Williams: Five mystical songs
Elgar: As torrents in summer
Stanford: The bluebird
Sullivan: The long day closes

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart: Requiem

Bach: Magnificat
Bach: Zion hört die Wächter singen

Darlington: Silent Night
Willcocks: Quelle est cette odeur agréable?

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas carols

Gritton: Mary’s boy child; Follow that star; Santa Claus is coming to town; The Christmas song

Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum
Tallis: O nata lux
Howells: Like as the hart
Rutter: The Lord bless you and keep you; A Gaelic blessing; The Lord is my shepherd
Grieg: Ave maris stella
Casals: O vos omnes
John IV of Portugal: Crux fidelis
Richard Lloyd: Were you there?

Malcolm Archer: Requiem

Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences; Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
Blow: Salvator Mundi
Grandi: Deus qui nos in tantis periculis; Ave regina coelorum

Purcell: Funeral sentences

Britten: Hymn to St Peter; A hymn of St Columba; Hymn to St Cecilia

David Jacob: Phyllyp Sparrowe (first performance)

Gibbons: Almighty and everlasting God; Behold, Thou hast made my days
Purcell: My beloved spake; Rejoice in the Lord always; I was glad; O sing unto the Lord

Charpentier: Messe de minuit

Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de pénitence
Debussy: Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans

Duruflé: Requiem

Howells: Requiem
Howells: Take him, Earth, for cherishing

Elgar: Give unto the Lord; The spirit of the Lord
Stanford: Justorum animae; Coelus ascendit hodie; Beati quorum via
Howells: Te Deum
Parry: I was glad

Folk songs:
Early one morning (arr. Higginbottom)
The oak and the ash (arr. Bairstow)
The Skye boat song (arr. Statham)
Brigg Fair (arr. Grainger)
Down by the Sally Gardens (arr. Higginbottom)
Londonderry air (arr. Grainger)
The Plough Boy (arr. Britten)
Shenandoah (arr. Erb)
Greensleeves (arr. Vaughan Williams)
O Waly Waly (arr. Higginbottom)
The Turtle Dove (arr. Vaughan Williams)
Yarmouth Fair (arr. Warlock)

Gibbons: The Silver Swan

Vaughan Williams: Shakespeare songs

Britten: Flower songs

Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Duruflé: Quatre motets
Poulenc: Salve Regina
Villette: Hymne à la Vièrge
Franck: Panis Angelicus

Poulenc: Stabat Mater

Josquin: Missa pange lingua

Josquin: Ave Maria
Parsons: Ave Maria
Mundy: O Lord, the master of all things
Gibbons: O Lord, in thy wrath; O clap your hands
Tallis: O nata lux; Salvator mundi
Byrd: Justorum animae; Sing joyfully
Dering: Factum est silentium

Haydn: Little organ mass
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Brahms: Ache, arme Welt; Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Müseligen?; Geistliches Lied

Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm

Schubert: Gott ist mein Hirt
Mendelssohn: Richte mich,Gott; Verleih uns Frieden
Rheinberger: Abendlied

Pearsall: In dulci jubilo
Flecha: Riu Riu Chiu
John Stevens: There is no rose

Britten: Hymn to the virgin
Britten: A ceremony of carols

Walton: What cheer; King Herod and the cock; All this time
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas carols
Holst: This have I done for my true love
Gardiner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Bruckner: Os justi; Christus Factus Est
Victoria: Caligaverunt oculi mei; Recessit pastor noster; Sepulto Domino

Rachmaninov: Vespers

Tallis: Salvator Mundi
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord
Byrd: Mass for four voices

Duruflé: Requiem

Parsons: Ave Maria
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
Warlock: I saw a fair maiden
Villette: Hymne à la Vièrge
Poulenc: Salve Regina
Mozart: Regina Coeli

Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
Finzi: Magnificat

26 May 1995
Magdalen College Chapel
Conductor: Richard Nicholson
Organ: David Leigh
Soprano: Paula Bishop
Tenor: James Geer

Walton: Jubilate Deo
Kodály: Missa Brevis

Britten: A wedding anthem
Poulenc: Gloria