Collegium Singers Summer Concert – She who creates, She who inspires

A concert placing women at the heart of choral expression as composers, as symbolic figures, and as voices through which beauty, light and devotion are explored. From Renaissance madrigals to modern contemplative works, the programme traces an arc of intimacy, awe and radiance. Alongside music by women composers – including rarely performed gems – stand pieces by male composers whose texts turn towards feminine figures, the beloved Virgin Mary, and symbolic presences of light, dawn and momory.
Programme
First half
Hor che la vaga aurora – Raffaella Aleotti
Morir non puo l’mio cuore – Maddalena Casulana
Of a Rose – Cecilia McDowall
Come again! Sweet love doth now invite – John Dowland
Ave Maris Stella – Mitosz Bembinow
See, see the shepherds’ queen – Orlando Gibbons
Dieu! Qu’il la fait bon regarder!
Interval
Ave Maris Stella – Edvard Grieg
Ave Maria – Anton Bruckner
Peace I leave with you – Amy Beach
A Hymne to Christ – Imogen Holst
Sicut lilium inter spinas – Marek Rcznski
Norther Lights – Ola Gjeilo
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – Elizabeth Poston
Bird Raptures Ill – and my love – Lucy Walker
A Boy and a Girl – Eric Whitacre