Faire is the Heaven

Concert Details

Faire is the Heaven

“One of the UK’s best amateur chamber choirs, the group has a light, youthful sound that lends itself well to pieces designed to glow, to radiate, to shimmer. The upper voices match the unearthly gleam of the water-filled wine glasses in Ēriks Ešenvalds’s Stars, with the choir finding a brighter intensity for Jonathan Dove’s Seek him that maketh the seven stars…” Gramophone Magazine.

Join us for a shimmering evening of beautiful music, including our first ever performance of Oliver Tarney’s Lux Stellarum, described by Convivium Records as “… a radiant new requiem for choir and organ blending plainsong, scripture, and poetry by John Donne and Marjorie Pickthall. At once intimate and expansive, the work invites listeners to contemplate the mystery of the cosmos – and a God who calls each star, and each soul, by name.”

Oliver Tarney joins MD Jeremy Backhouse for a pre-concert chat at 6.30pm, which is free for all ticket holders.

Full programme:
Jonathan Dove: Seek him that maketh the seven stars
Ēriks Ešenvalds: Stars
W H Harris: Faire is the heaven
Herbert Howells: Requiem
INTERVAL
Jonathan Dove: Bless the Lord, O my soul
Eric Whitacre: Lux aurumque
W H Harris: Bring us, O Lord
Oliver Tarney: Lux stellarum