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Announcing a new children’s choir for Thame

TCC2

Under the banner of Thame Chamber Choir

For more details and how to register see our TCC2 website.

Romantic Vienna

Thame Chamber Choir and Petros Singers with Interplay wind and brass ensemble.

Programme included:

• Ave Maria — Anton Bruckner
• Ave verum — Franz Liszt
• Fünf Gesänge (Op 104) — Johannes Brahms
• Präludium in C - Bruckner
• Locus iste — Bruckner
• Stabat Mater — Giovanni Palestrina, arr. Richard Wagner
• Ecce sacerdos — Bruckner
• Mass No.2 in E-minor — Bruckner

(Will be updated soon.)

The Food of Love

Presented by Bruce Alexander

Programme included:

• Four Shakespeare Songs - Jaakko MäntyJärtvi
• Come away, death
• Lullaby
• Double, double toil and trouble
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - Nils Lindberg
• Shakespeare Songs - William Mathias
• Full fathom five
• Sigh no more, ladies
• Dirge
• It was a lover and his lass
• Three Shakespeare Songs - R. Vaughan Williams
• Full fathom five
• The cloud-capp'd towers
• Over hill, over dale
• Music to Hear - George Shearing
• Music to Hear
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
• Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye?
• Sigh no more, ladies
• Blow, blow, thou winter winter wind

St John Passion

with:

• with Ben Hulett - evangelist
• with Katie Trethewey - soprano
• with William Towers - countertenor
• with Jonathan Brown - baritone
• with Interplay - period instruments

Festive fun by candlelight

with Ben Davies - baritone
accompanied by Colin Spinks

Programme included:

• Well-loved favorites and contemporary twists together with familiar carols for the audience to partipate in.
• For the first time, we were joined by the recently formed children's choir, TCC2.

Choral Masterworks

with Richard Bannan - baritone

Programme included:

• Fauré - Requiem
• Frank Martin - Mass for Two Choirs

The Glory of Venice

with Interplay period instruments

Programme included:

• Beatus vir - Monteverdi
• Adoramus te - Merulo
• O magnum mysterium - Giovanni Gabrieli
• Factum est silentium - Grandi
• Credo - Vivaldi
• Letaniae dlla Beata Virgine - Monteverdi
• Magnificat à 12 - Andrea Gabrieli
• Cantate Domino - Cavalli
• Gloria à 7 - Monteverdi

A Vision of Heaven - Sublime choral music for eternity

with Tim Wakerell - organ (St Paul's Cathedral)

Programme included:

• My soul, there is a country - Parry
• Justorum animae - Byrd
• Seek him that maketh the seven stars - Jonathan Dove
• Angel Song II - Will Todd
• Bring us, O Lord God - Harris
• O how glorious is the Kingdom - Harwood
• Immortal Bach - Knut Nystedt
• How lovely are thy dwellings - Brahms
• Agnus Dei (Mass for double choir) - Martin
• There is an old belief - Parry
• In paradisum (Requiem) - Fauré

Have yourself a very Christmassy Christmas

Programme included some Victorian Christmas fancies, together with well-loved favourites, some with contemporary twists.

There were two performances this year. Both sold out.

For the Wings of a Dove

Joined by:

• Elisabeth Meister - Soprano (Royal Opera House Young Artist)
• Christian Wilson - piano/organ

Programme included Mendelssohn's "Hear My Prayer" and works by his contemporaries, including Brahms and Schubert

Thame Chamber Choir 10th anniversary concert
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

Joined by:

• Rebecca Outram - Soprano
• Olivia Robinson - Soprano
• Simon Wall - Tenor
• Mark Wilde - Tenor
• Robert Rice - Soprano
• Giles Underwood - Baritone
• The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
• The Monteverdi String Band

As Nature Intended

Programme included:

• Song of Proserpine - Coleridge-Taylor
• Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - Praetorius / Jan Sandström
• There was an old man in a tree - Seiber
• Thule, the period of cosmograhpy - Weelkes
• Shenandoah - arr. James Erb
• Sourwood Mountain - arr. John Rutter
• Black Sheep - arr. Rutter
• Down by the Riverside - arr. Rutter
• Five Flower Songs (Op 47) - Britten
• My delight and thy delight - Parry
• She's like a swallow - Chapman
• Lay a garland - Pearsall
• The Bluebird - Stanford

A Jolly Christmassy Christmas Concert!

Programme included some Victorian Christmas fancies, together with well-loved favourites, some with contemporary twists.

This concert sold out.

Dido and Æneas

Programme included:

• Dido and Æneas - Henry Purcell
• Put me not to rebuke - William Croft
• I will greatly rejoice - Maurice Greene
• Be merciful unto me O Lord - John Blow
• O God, thou art my God - Henry Purcell

The Long Day Closes - Music for the Summer Solstice

Programme included:

• Brahms - Abendlied
• Brahms - O schöne Nacht
• Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
• Gershwin - Summertime
• arr. Holst - I love my love
• Lennon and McCartney - Hard Day's Night
• Rheinberger - Morgenlied
• Sullivan - The Long Day Closes
• Wilbye - Draw on, sweet night
• Anon. - Tourdion

Crucifixus - Music for passion

Programme included:

• Lotti - Crucifixus à 8
• Byrd - Ne irascaris, Domine
• Monteverdi - Adoramus te, Christe
• Palestrina - Super flumina
• Bruckner - Christus factus est
• Kodály - Pange lingua
• Salieri - De profundis clamavi
• Poulenc - Quatre motets pour le temps de Penitence
• Pärt - De profundis clamavi

There's Something about Mary - A candlelit concert

Programme included:

• Britten - Hymn to the Virgin
• Górecki - Totus Tuus
• Palestrina - Alma Redemptoris Mater

and works by Mouton, Crivelli, Soler, Villette, Dupré including the UK première of David Bednall's Salve Regina commissioned for the 2007 Jean Langlais Festival

Immortal Bach - Jesu meine Freude

Programme included:

• Bach - Jesu meine Freude
• Mendelssohn - Da Jesus geboren (Christus)
• Palestrina - Alma Redemptoris Mater
• S S Wesley - The Wilderness
• Brahms - Warum ist des licht gegeben
• Tippett - Spirituals (A Child of our Time)
• Sandström - Es ist ein Ros'
• Nystedt - Immortal Bach