Vocalis choir in Harrogate North Yorkshire Fountains Abbey

Summer Music at Fountains

with guests

The Hilton Recorder Consort

at 3.00pm in the Abbey Cellarium

Normal Fountains Abbey admission charges apply
see www.fountainsabbey.org.uk for details

Programme

Vocalis

John Bennet

All creatures now

Thomas Weelkes

Strike it up, tabor

George Kirbye

See what a maze of error

Orlando Gibbons

The silver swan

Hilton Recorder Consort

Pieces from the past

Ductia, a dance from an anonymous 13th. century composer gives you chance to hear each of the recorders in turn playing the rhythmic tunes. More dance music follows with two Almandes and two Bransle Simples. These are from a later period where each recorder has its own part which complemented the others. We progress to the Tudor period with a piece by Henry VIII, an accomplished musician, called Pastime with Good Company and Greensleeves attributed to him but most likely not his work. Bonny Sweet Robin by Anthony Holborne, a contemporary of Elizabeth I, is another dance as is Mistress Nichols Almand. We move south by 1000 miles for Ricercare del 12 tono by Andrea Gabrielli. This piece has moved away from being merely dance music and is a piece of music for music's sake. The final piece of the first section Gavotte by Boyce is from his 4th. symphony.

Vocalis

Richard Farrant

Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake

Christopher Tye

Give almes of thy goods

Orlando Gibbons

O Lord, in thy wrath

Ernest Farrar

To daffodils

John Ireland

The hills

C.V. Stanford

Quick, we have but a second

John Rutter

Sourwood Mountain

Hilton Recorder Consort

Pieces from the present.

The Latin American Suite arranged by Susana Plotquin Szrftgiser captures the feel of South America. We move to Sheffield next for three movements of Colin Hand's The Hallam Suite, written in 1990 for the Sheffield Society of Recorder Players. The first movement is rhythmic, the second full of atmosphere and the third lively. Clockwork Dolly Dance is by one of today's players and uses the tonguing of the recorder to express the feel of a clockwork mechanism. Basin Street Blues and Cameron's Rag are both by the contemporary Leeds composer John Pitts. Have we come full circle back to dance music again?

Vocalis

Graham Pawley

Charity

Tim Knight

Shall we gather at the river

Eleanor Daley

Requiem - Do not stand at my grave

Craig Courtney

Sanctus

Home

Summer Music at Fountains with guests The Hilton Recorder Consort at 3.00pm in the Abbey Cellarium Normal Fountains Abbey admission charges apply see www.fountainsabbey.org.uk for details
Programme
Vocalis
John Bennet	All creatures now
Thomas Weelkes	Strike it up, tabor
George Kirbye	See what a maze of error
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan

Hilton Recorder Consort Pieces from the past Ductia, a dance from an anonymous 13th. century composer gives you chance to hear each of the recorders in turn playing the rhythmic tunes. More dance music follows with two Almandes and two Bransle Simples. These are from a later period where each recorder has its own part which complemented the others. We progress to the Tudor period with a piece by Henry VIII, an accomplished musician, called Pastime with Good Company and Greensleeves attributed to him but most likely not his work. Bonny Sweet Robin by Anthony Holborne, a contemporary of Elizabeth I, is another dance as is Mistress Nichols Almand. We move south by 1000 miles for Ricercare del 12 tono by Andrea Gabrielli. This piece has moved away from being merely dance music and is a piece of music for music's sake. The final piece of the first section Gavotte by Boyce is from his 4th. symphony.

Vocalis
Richard Farrant	Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
Christopher Tye	Give almes of thy goods
Orlando Gibbons	O Lord, in thy wrath

Ernest Farrar	To daffodils
John Ireland	The hills
C.V. Stanford	Quick, we have but a second
John Rutter	Sourwood Mountain

Hilton Recorder Consort Pieces from the present. The Latin American Suite arranged by Susana Plotquin Szrftgiser captures the feel of South America. We move to Sheffield next for three movements of Colin Hand's The Hallam Suite, written in 1990 for the Sheffield Society of Recorder Players. The first movement is rhythmic, the second full of atmosphere and the third lively. Clockwork Dolly Dance is by one of today's players and uses the tonguing of the recorder to express the feel of a clockwork mechanism. Basin Street Blues and Cameron's Rag are both by the contemporary Leeds composer John Pitts. Have we come full circle back to dance music again?

Vocalis
Graham Pawley	Charity
Tim Knight	Shall we gather at the river
Eleanor Daley	Requiem - Do not stand at my grave
Craig Courtney	Sanctus

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