This is a provisional draft timetable. Please check back closer to the dates listed below for more details. You may also contact the Secretary for further information.
Concert 1 - 19 April 2009
piano4te: choral music for piano 4-hands
Canberra Girls’ Grammar Concert Hall at 2:00pm
Poulenc Gloria
Brahms Liebeslieder
Gorecki Totus Tuus
CSO Concert - 16 May 2009
Beethoven Symphony no. 9
Llewellyn Hall
CCS will join with other major Canberra Choirs in this Spectacular work.
Concert 2 - 16 August 2009
'Quintessentially English'
St Paul's Manuka - 2pm
Part I
Judas Maccabeus George F. Handel (1685-1759)
Sing unto God
See the Conquering Hero Come
Hallelujah, Amen
Hear my prayer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Evelyn Graham, Soprano
God so loved the world from The Crucifixion John Stainer (1840-1901)
O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
This is the Record of John Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Cameron Gill, countertenor
A Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G Op 81. Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924)
Evelyn Graham, soprano
Dominic McKenna, heldentenor
Part II
Lux Aeterna (Nimrod from the Enigma Variations) Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
arr. John Cameron (b 1944)
The Sprig of Thyme John Rutter (b 1945)
The Keel Row
Willow Song
The Bluebird Charles V. Stanford
Evelyn Graham, Soprano
The Lamb John Tavener (b 1944)
Short organ solo
Christopher Erskine, organ
From the Bavarian Highlands Op 27 Edward Elgar
The Dance
False Love
The Marksmen
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Purcell Concert
7 November 2009
Llewellyn Hall 7 November 7pm
Ode for St Ceclia’s Day: Hail, Bright Cecilia! (1692)
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons of Art (1694)
- Symphony
- Come ye sons of art
- Sound the trumpet
- Symphony
- Strike the viol
- The day that such a blessing gave
- Bid the virtues
- These are the sacred charms
- See nature rejoicing
Te Deum Laudamus (1694)
INTERVAL
King Arthur (1691)
Excerpts from Acts 1 and 2
Come, if you dare
Hither this way
Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye
Come follow me
Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying
Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure
Two songs for Countertenor
Oedipus: Music for a while (1692)
Pausanius: Sweeter than roses (1695)
Tobias Cole, countertenor
Dido and Aneas (1689)
Excerpts from Act 3:
Prelude, Song(Sailor) and Chorus: Come away, fellow sailors
Recitative (Dido): Thy hand Belinda
Song (Dido): When I am laid in earth
Chorus: With drooping wings
Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1695)
Drum Processional
March
Canzona
Funeral Sentences:
Man that is born of a woman
