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Sunday 12th May 2024, 4:00 pm
Quartet performance
Music for a summer’s evening, themed around flowers and the beautiful month of May.
Corvus Consort presents a programme of summer music, ranging from renaissance madrigals through part-songs of the 19th and 20th centuries to the present day, centred around Benjamin Britten’s wonderful Five Flower Songs, Op. 47, and marking Gustav Holst’s 150th year with his Five Partsongs, Op. 12.
John Ireland (1879-1962)
When May is in his prime
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Silence and Music
Jonathan Dove (b. 1959)
In beauty may I walk
John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Hills
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
I praise the tender flower
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
I have loved flowers that fade
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Five Flower Songs, Op. 47
Alec Roth (b. 1948)
The Flower
Trad.
Ther is no rose of swych vertu
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1555)
Ego flos campi a 3
William Byrd (c.1539-1623)
This sweet and merry month of May
Robert Pearsall (1795-1856)
Sweet as a flower in May
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Five Partsongs, Op. 12
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
The long day closes