Wimbledon Chamber Choir
Saturday, 7 July 2007 at 7.30pm at Mitcham Parish Church
and
Saturday, 14 July 2007 at 8pm at St Mary's Church,
Burpham, West Sussex
East and West: A concert of choral music
Including music by Elgar, Monteverdi, Seiber and Szymanowski
Peter Smith (conductor)
| Mass for four voices (1651)
interspersed with organ music by Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) |
Claudio Monteverdi (1568-1643) |
| Kyrie and Gloria | Monteverdi |
| Toccata avanti la Messa delli Apostoli | Frescobaldi |
| Credo | Monteverdi |
| Canzona on the ninth tone | Frescobaldi |
| Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei | Monteverdi |
| INTERVAL | |
| Six Kurpian Folk Songs | Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) |
| 1) Hey, my oxen! Why aren't you pulling the plough?
2) Who is tapping there in the wardrobe? 3) Praise be to Jesus Christ our Saviour 4) Crack the whip to make the horse run! 5)Are you ready, daughter of mine? 6)Hey, musicians, won't you play a waltz for us? |
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| Two Polish folksongs from the Tatra Mountains | Traditional |
| 1) Dance with me
2) My friend |
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| Geraldine Hine (violin) | |
| Love | Edward Elgar (1857-1934) |
| O happy eyes! | Elgar |
| Allegro from Sonatina in G op.100 | Antonin Dvorak |
| Ian Hargrave (violin) | |
| As Torrents in Summer | Elgar |
| The Shower | Elgar |
| Waltz in D Major op.54 no.4 | Dvorak |
| Geraldine Hine (violin) | |
| Three Nonsense Songs | Matyas Seiber (1905-1960) |
| 1) There was an old lady of France who taught little ducklings to dance ...
2) There was an old person of Cromer who stood on one leg to read Homer 3)There was an old man in a tree who was horribly bored by a bee ... |