A musical voyage through Europe’s leading capitals of seventeenth and eighteenth-century culture, with music ranging from Monteverdi to Mozart. Pre-Concert talk Peter Leech 7.00pm - Concert 7.30p Tickets from Museum of Somerset – Tel: 01823-255088 On line tickets https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/boxoffice/select/lqNPtxPJGCBF
Pre-Concert talk by Peter Leech at 7pm Tickets £12 - students £6 - under 12s free
Sacred choral works by the Franco-Flemish master and his contemporaries: Surmise, Isaac, Janequin & Obrecht
Concert by Collegium Singers – Musical Masters of Rome Music Director – Ian Webb-Taylor Choral concert of sacred and secular works from Rome covering 500 years from Palestrina to Morricone with works by Victoria, Scarlatti, Pitoni and others. Collegium Singers are delighted to be returning to the Church of St Peter & St Paul in… Read More »Collegium Singers Concert – Musical Masters of Rome
Collegium Singers Concert - There is Sweet Music - Choral Music of the British Isles Partsongs and other music of the British Isles on the topic of the nature and its relationship with man. Drawing from the work of Elgar and Britten to present day composers Chilcott, MacMillan and Dove, traditional and modern depictions of nature… Read More »Collegium singers Concert – There is Sweet Music
Music on the theme of love, exploring texts from within and without the ‘Song of Songs’. Music from the C16th and C17th including madrigals by Monteverdi. A focus on the C20th and C21st follows, exploring settings by Grieg, Sibelius and Sandstrom.
Programme: O Virtus Sapientiae - Hildegard von Bingen Ave Verum Corpus - Poulenc (i) 'Salut, dame Sainte' and (iii) 'Seigneur, je vous en prie' from Quatre Petits Prieres de Saint-Francois d'Assise - Poulenc Salve Regina - Poulenc Five Negro Spirituals - Tippett Jesu, meine Freude - Bach My Lord, what a morning, arr. Burleigh Hear… Read More »Collegium Singers Summer Concert
Collegium Singers enters its 25th year as a chamber choir singing a work which has long been associated with much larger choral forces. Ein Deutsches Requiem is most often performed with full orchestra, however at the request of his publisher, Brahms created a version of the score to be made available for chamber performance with piano accompaniment (four… Read More »Collegium Singers – Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Kenneth Grahame (of ‘Wind in the Willows’ fame) published a book of children’s stories in 1898, called Dream Days. His story takes place in the Berkshire Downs where he lived, and legend has it that St George fought a dragon. However, Kenneth Grahame’s dragon is of literary persuasion with a penchant for poetry and absolutely… Read More »Collegium Singers – A Dragon for Christmas! A banquet of festive treatsincluding Rutter’s The Reluctant Dragon
Collegium Singers present a concert of exultant sacred music dedicated to the Holy Spirit, culminating in Vierne's Messe Solennelle. Music of the Spirit begins with Patrick Gower's joyful Veni Sancte Spiritus before the darkness of Byrd and MacMillan's settings of Factus Est Repente. Two epic cornerstones, Elgar's The Spirit of the Lord and Tallis's Loquebantur… Read More »Collegium Singers Concert – Music of the Spirit
