As their inaugural performance at the Brandenburg Choral Festival, the Allegri Singers are delighted to present an a capella programme of 20th century British choral masterpieces, offering a broad range of musical style and character, both sacred and secular.
The concert will begin with William Harris’s beautiful setting of Spenser’s poem Faire is the Heaven and include other well-known sacred works such as Stanford’s Beati Quorum Via, Tavener’s The Lamb and Howells’ Take him, earth, for cherishing.
In anticipation of St. Cecilia’s Day later in November, the concert will feature Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia, a setting of a poem by W.H. Auden celebrating the patron saint of musicians. The performance will close with Tippett’s evocative Five Spirituals from A Child of our Time.
Programme
William Henry Harris | Faire is the Heaven
Edward Naylor | Vox Dicentis
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Three Shakespeare Songs
William Walton | Set me as a Seal
John Tavener | The Lamb
Benjamin Britten | Hymn to St Cecilia
Charles Villiers Stanford | Beati quorum via
Arnold Bax | This Worldes Joie
Herbert Howells | Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
Gustav Holst | The Evening-Watch
Michael Tippett | Five Spirituals from ‘A Child of Our Time’
Allegri Singers
Stephen Anthony Brown — Conductor
The Allegri Singers are a chamber choir based in the Bromley area, with all ages of singers, performing an adventurous repertoire to the highest standard. They currently perform four concerts a year, covering a wide spectrum of choral music from the Baroque period to the present day.
Recent highlights have included: the London Premiere of Timothy Hamilton's Requiem in St Paul's, Covent Garden (with the Rosenau Sinfonia) and sell-out performances of the Monteverdi Vespers and Bach's St John Passion. In June this year, they gave a highly successful concert performance of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, with solo parts drawn from members of the choir.
The Allegri Singers pride themselves on their ability to perform a wide range of musical styles, with energy and panache.
Tickets £23 (premium) / £18 (unreserved) / £5 (children) — call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or book online now!
Our premium tickets include a reserved seat (this differs per venue according to acoustic, but is usually 3–5 rows from the front, near the centre aisle), a programme, and a voucher for a drink which can be redeemed either before the concert or during the interval.