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UK Concerts
Date Venue & booking info Programme
February - October 2010

Nationwide

Full tour details are listed on the Choral Pilgrimage pages of this website.

The Choral Pilgrimage 2010

Ceremony & Devotion - Music for the Tudors

20 August 2010

5.45pm

Edinburgh Greyfriars Kirk

Edinburgh International Festival

Tickets 0131 473 2000

www.eif.co.uk

SOLD OUT!

Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars

A concert of music by Tomás Luis de Victoria and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, two great renaissance composers from Spain. Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla travelled throughout Latin America before becoming Maestro de Capilla, in charge of music at Puebla Cathedral, Mexico.

24 August 2010

8.00pm

Edinburgh Usher Hall

Edinburgh International Festival

Tickets 0131 473 2000

www.eif.co.uk

The Indian Queen

Set in the royal courts of Peru and Mexico just prior to the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors, The Indian Queen is an intricate tale of dynastic power and regal heritage. It is arguably Purcell's most exotic and alluring masque.

Programme also includes:

Daniel Purcell The Masque of Hymen
Henry Purcell Come, ye sons of art

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers conductor

Gillian Keith Soprano
Robin Blaze Countertenor
John Mark Ainsley Tenor
Allan Clayton Tenor
Roderick Williams Bass

19 September 2010

7.30pm

St Asaph Cathedral

North Wales International Music Festival

Tickets 01745 584 508

www.northwalesmusicfestival.co.uk

The Choral Pilgrimage 2010

Ceremony & Devotion - Music for the Tudors

8 October 2010

7.30pm

Manchester Bridgewater Hall

Tickets 0161 907 9000

www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

A Mother's Love: Music for Mary

Grieg              Ave maris stella
Josquin           Gaude virgo mater Christi

Parsons          Ave Maria

Rizza              Ave generosa

Duruflé              Tota pulchra es

Dupré             Ave Maris Stella Nos. 1 and 2 for organ, interspersed with plainsong

Victoria          Nigra sum

Palestrina       Assumpta est Maria

Mendelssohn   Ave Maria

Saint-Saëns     Ave Maria

Brahms           Es ist ein Ros entrsprungen (organ)

MacMillan        Padré Pio’s prayer

Palestrina       Sicut lilium inter spinas

Bruckner        Tota pulchra es Maria

Poulenc             Salve Regina

Dupré            Ave Maris Stella Nos. 3 and 4, interspersed with plainsong

Cornysh         Ave Maria, Mater Dei

Lassus           Salve Regina

9 October 2010

7.30pm

London St Luke's Church, Battersea

Tickets (£18) available from 1 September

07951 791619

www.slms.org.uk

An Immortal Legacy

Tallis             Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter

                    Salvator mundi

                    O nata lux

                    O sacrum convivium

                    Loquebantur variis linguis

Gibbons         The Silver Swan

MacMillan       Sedebit Dominum Rex

                    Mitte manum tuam

Tippett          Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time

Byrd             Though Amaryllis Dance

                    Laudibus in sanctis

                    This sweet and merry month of May  a 5

Britten          Gloriana Dances

22 October 2010

8.00pm

Brighton St Bartholomew's Church

Tickets from Brighton Dome (from August):

01273 709 709

Brighton Early Music Festival

The Choral Pilgrimage 2010

Ceremony & Devotion - Music for the Tudors

9 December 2010

7.30pm

London Queen Elizabeth Hall

Tickets 0844 875 0073

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

The Angel Gabriel

Music for Christmas

10 December 2010

7.30pm

Guildford Holy Trinity Church

Tickets 01483 444 777

www.guildford.gov.uk

The Angel Gabriel

Music for Christmas

11 December 2010

7.30pm

Canterbury Cathedral

Tickets 01227 464 764

www.thecanterburygift.com

The Angel Gabriel

Music for Christmas

12 December 2010

7.30pm

Reading Town Hall

Tickets 0118 960 6060
www.readingarts.com

The Angel Gabriel

Music for Christmas

16 December 2010

7.00pm

London Barbican Hall

Tickets 020 7638 8891

www.barbican.org.uk

 

The Messiah

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers conductor
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist tenor
Christopher Purves bass-baritone