And I Saw A New Heaven

In an excitingly varied programme of music for choir and organ, spanning some 400 years, we mark the anniversaries of several composers – the 200th of Bruckner’s birth; the 150th of the births of Bairstow and Holst and the centenaries of the deaths of Stanford and Dubois. Works by five of the greatest Baroque composers – Purcell, Rameau, Bach, Handel and Vivaldi – form the backbone of the concert, and Romantic works by Brahms and  Bainton bring us to the present century for a wistful arrangement of a folk tune by the American, Stephen Paulus.

Gratias Agimus Tibi (Mass in B Minor)

J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Christus Factus Est (1884)

Anton Bruckner (1824-96)

Magnificat  in G (1902)

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Organ Solo: Toccata in G (1889)

Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

Magnificat RV610  (rev. 1720s)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (1925)

Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)

Evening Hymn (1688)

Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Hallelujah (Messiah, 1741)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Organ Solo (arr. Peter King): Entrée de Polymnie (from Les Boréades, c. 1763)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Nunc Dimittis (1915) 

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

And I Saw A New Heaven (1928)

Edgar Bainton (1880-1956)

Geistliches Lied (1856)

Johannes Brahms (1833-97)

The Road Home (2001)

Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)

Organist: Peter King

Conductor: Graham Caldbeck