Joby Talbot follows his critically acclaimed 2005 commission for Tenebrae, Path of Miracles, with a new a cappella work, a setting of WB Yeats’s The Song of Wandering Aengus. This evening’s concert stands as a celebration of the great British choral tradition and the vast panoply of works written for its finest ensembles. Tenebrae crowns its programme with the transcendent sounds of High Flight, an exquisite evocation of Bob Chilcott’s memories of life as a boy chorister at King’s College, Cambridge.

Programme

Judith Weir: a blue true dream of sky
Richard Rodney Bennett: The Seasons of his Mercies
Joby Talbot: The Wishing Tree
Joby Talbot: The Song of Wandering Aengus *
Eric Whitacre: Three Flower Songs
i. I hide myself
ii. With a lily in my hand
iii. Go, lovely rose
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Beyond The Night Sky
Ivo Antognini: Dum aurora

Interval

Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
Cecilia McDowall: Adoro te devote
Eric Whitacre: The Stolen Child
Judith Weir: A Wreath
Bob Chilcott: High Flight

* This will be the world premiere of this new work by Joby Talbot, which was co-commissioned by Tenebrae and Wigmore Hall.

Artist(s)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae