Final programme for David Acres' Counterpoint Concert Buckfast Abbey Saturday 20 June 2015

James Bowman

Counterpoint's FREE June 20th concert is just around the corner.

The final programme has just been decided - after a little 'too-ing and fro-ing' -

David Acres tying himself up in knots with what they're singing and what they're not singing!

All of James Bowman's pieces will be sung with the baroque organ accompaniment

and the programme is as follows:

Edward Woodall Naylor:

"Vox dicentis, 'Clama' "

Psalm 130:

"Out of the depths I cried unto thee, O Lord"

Thomas Tallis:

"O nata lux, de lumine"

(James Bowman)

William Byrd:

"Ave Verum Corpus"

(James Bowman)

Sergei Rachmaninov:

"Всенощное бдение" (All Night Vigil 1915)

- "Богородице Дево" (Rejoice, O Virgin)  

Morten Lauridsen: "O magnum mysterium"

Eric Whitacre: "Lux Aurumque"

John Sanders: "The Reproaches"

INTERVAL 

Orlando Gibbons:

"Drop, drop slow tears"

(James Bowman & Counterpoint)

William Byrd:

"Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis"

(James Bowman)

Sir John Tavener: "Funeral Ikos"

Alonso Lobo: "Versa est in luctum" 

Sir Edward Elgar: "Lux aeterna"

Richard Farrant:

"Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord"

(James Bowman)

Henry Purcell: Evening Hymn

(James Bowman)

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla:

"Circumdederunt me dolores mortis"

(The sorrows of death have encompassed me)

Eric Whitacre/Charles Anthony Sylvestri:

"Sleep"

Pierre Attaingnant: "Tourdion"

FREE Concert

no need to purchase a ticket