Lunchtime Concert
Lunchtime Concert
Date and time
Tuesday 4 October 2011, 1–2.15pm
Tickets
Only those who have pre-booked, or with tickets, will be admitted.
Subject to availability, tickets will be available to purchase at the Gallery prior to the performance.
The Ionian Singers, a chamber choir of about 35 vocalists with an international reputation, perform with conductor Timothy Salter, Professor at the Royal College of Music. Their programme includes music by Elgar, Parry, Stanford, Holst, Howells and English Folk Song arrangements.
Programme
The Ionian Singers
Conductor: Timothy Salter
- William Byrd
'Sing joyfully'; 'Senex puerum portabat'
- Charles V. Stanford
'Beati quorum via'; 'Justorum animae'; 'Heraclitus'
- Charles Hubert H. Parry
'Since thou O fondest'; 'Home of my heart'; 'O love they wrong thee much'
- Gustav Holst
'There was a tree'; 'Dream tryst'
- Herbert Howells
'Inheritance'
Short interval
- Orlando Gibbons
'Hosanna to the Son of David'; 'O Lord in thy wrath rebuke me not'
- Edward Elgar
'Feasting I watch'; 'Love’s tempest'
- William Walton
'A Litany'; 'Set me as a seal upon thine heart'
- Timothy Salter
'English folk song arrangements': 'O waly, waly'; 'The wraggle taggle gypsies'; 'Blow the wind southerly'
Supported by The Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation.
The foundation was set up some years ago by Ernest Hecht, one of England’s major independent book publishers, with the aim of helping the disadvantaged and promoting the advancement of the arts and education.
