13 November 2009

8pm

The University at 800 - a Choral Celebration

Clare College Choir
Timothy Brown director
Trinity College Choir
Stephen Layton director
Cambridge Collegium Musicum
Maggie Faultless leader
Simon Bland, Ashok Gupta,
Nicholas Haigh, Michael Waldron
harpsichord and organ continuo
Maud Millar, Christina Sampson soprano
Andrew Staples, Gwilym Bown tenor
Christopher Webb bass

Timothy Brown conductor

Purcell: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes
Tippett: Lament (from Divertimento Sellinger’s Round)
Christopher Brown: A Five-Gated Well
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Collegium Musicum - the University's Baroque Orchestra, is joined by two of Cambridge's leading mixed voice choirs. The resulting choir will produce fresh choral singing of the very best quality.

The programme is very varied, with music from the 17th to the 21st centuries. The programme celebrates the anniversaries of Handel and Purcell and includes the first performance of Christopher Brown's moving setting of A Five-Gated Well, a collection of specially written poetry by Archbishop Rowan Williams, one time Clare student. Christopher Brown is known for his tuneful and traditional approach to composition, and especially for his skill in writing for choirs.

This new work has been commissioned to celebrate the University of Cambridge's 800th Anniversary.

Trinity College Chapel

Tickets: (unnumbered) £20; SOLD OUT
(unsighted) £5 available
[Concessions: ¢ £18; WC 2 for 1; SS £5]

Booking code 13.2

Box Office: 01223 357851

This concert is given by the kind permission of the
Master and Fellows of Trinity College.

Archibishop Rowan Williams (Photo Eleanor Bentall)

Themes

Handel, Haydn, Purcell, Mendelssohn others in theme
Cambridge University Performers - choirs and instrumentalists others in theme
Music v Language others in theme