UPCOMING EVENTS
Christmas with The Carice Singers
Join us for three carol concerts this Christmas, packed an assortment of traditional favourites with music by contemporary composers Ēriks Ešenvalds, Roderick Williams, and Judith Weir (the current Master of the Queen’s Music). Additionally, Conductor George Parris brings home a few Christmas delicacies from Finland including a ravishing piece by the choir's associate composer Matthew Whittall.
Leamington Music Christmas Festival
Wednesday 18th December, 7.30pm
St Mark' Church, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 6DL
Tickets: £22 reserved, £16 unreserved, £10 side aisle
(includes mulled wine and mince pies) £1 Student Standby
19
Dec
St Lawrence's Church, Hungerford
Thursday 19th December, 6.30pm
St Lawrence's Church, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0JB
20
Dec
Chipping Campden Music Society
Thursday 20th December, 7.30pm
St James' Church, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6JG
Tickets: £15 or via Campden Music Winter Season Subscription
18
Dec
13
Oct
20 Oct
PAST EVENTS:
October 2019
In Paradisum
St Mary's Bourne Street,
All Saint's Honington,
Oxford Lieder Festival
Saturday 12th October, 6.30pm
Sunday 13th October, 6.30pm
Tuesday 15th October, 10.00pm
PROGRAMME:
Henry Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord
Funeral Sentences
Carlo Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday I-III
Edvard Grieg Fire Salmer*
Galina Grigorjeva In Paradisum
Conductor: George Parris
*soloists: Synnøve Saetre, David Le Prevost
JULY 2019
Sounding North
Cheltenham Music Festival, The Swedish Church in London, St Mary's Church Warwick
Friday 5th July, 3.00pm
Saturday 6th July, 7.30pm
Sunday 7th July, 2.30pm
Tuesday 9th July, 7.30pm
Premiered to great acclaim at the 2018 Oxford Lieder Festival, we visited Cheltenham, London, and Warwick with our regional exploration of Nordic choral music.
PROGRAMME:
Icelandic Hymn Heyr, himna smiður (Hear, smith of the heavens)
Edvard Grieg Hvad est du dog skjøn (How fair thou art)
Wilhelm Stenhammar September
Jean Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover)
Kaija Saariaho Nuits, Adieux (Nights, Farewell)
David Wikander Förvårskväll (Spring evening)
Matthew Whittall Lauantaisauna (Saturday sauna)
Per Nørgård Maya Danser (Maya Dances)
Arr. Ørjan Matre Halleluja, vår strid er endt (Halleluja, our struggle ends)
Karin Rehnqvist I himmelen (In Heaven's hall)
Conductor: George Parris
JANUARY 2019
Twelfth Night
LONDON & WARWICK
Friday 4th January, 7.30pm (St Mary's, Bourne Street, London)
Saturday 5th January, 6.00pm (St Mary's Church, Warwick)
Two evening concerts with a stunning seasonal programme meditating on the nocturnal mysteries of Twelfth Night.
PROGRAMME:
Samuel Barber Twelfth Night
Walter Lambe Nesciens Mater
Herbert Howells Here is the Little Door
Sing lullaby
A spotless rose
Nicholas Ludford Ave Cujus Conceptio
Francis Poulenc Un Soir de Neige
INTERVAL
Per Nørgård Winter hymn
Robert White Christie qui lux es et dies
Gustav Mahler (arr. Gottwald)
Um mitternacht
Peter Warlock The Rich Cavalcade
Bethlehem Down
Sergei Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo
Conductor: George Parris
OCTOBER 2018
In Memoriam
Barcheston, Warwickshire
Sunday 11th November, 4.00pm
St Martin's Church, Barcheston, Warwickshire, CV36 5AY
A special Remembrance Day concert in aid of St Martin's Church Fabric Fund, the Royal British Legion, and Armed Forces Charity SSAFA.
Eternal be the Sleep
Music at Pinner
Saturday 10th November, 7.30pm
Pinner Parish Church, Church Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 3AA
The final performance in our 2018 series, 'Eternal be the Sleep', commemorating the centenary of Hubert Parry's death and the end of the First World War.
OCTOBER 2018
Sounding North
Oxford Lieder Festival
Saturday 20th October, 10.00pm
New College Ante-Chapel, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN
Concluding the Oxford Lieder Festival's Nordic day, 'Sounding North' presented its audience with the broadest possible experience of Nordic sound, from Swedish herding calls to sounds of the Finnish sauna.
PROGRAMME:
Icelandic Hymn Heyr, himna smiður (Hear, smith of the heavens)
Edvard Grieg Hvad est du dog skjøn (How fair is your face)
Jean Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover)
Norwegian folksong Jeg lagde mig så sildig (I lay down so late)
Kaija Saariaho Nuits, Adieux (Nights, Farewell)
Wilhelm Stenhammar September
Toivo Kuula Nuku (Sleep)
Per Nørgård Maya Danser (Maya Dances)
Matthew Whittall Lauantaisauna (Saturday sauna)
Karin Rehnqvist I himmelen (In Heaven's hall)
CD LAUNCH CONCERT
St Pauls Knightsbridge, London
Friday 5th October, 7.30pm
St Paul's Knightsbridge, 32a Wilton Place, London, SW1X 8SH
A special performance of Hubert Parry's poignant Songs of Farewell and other British choral works to mark the release of our new disc for the BBC Music Magazine.
Eternal be the Sleep
Parry 100 Festival
Thursday 4th October, 7.30pm
St Peter's Church, Hinton Road, Bournemouth, BH1 2EE
The third performance in our 2018 series, 'Eternal be the Sleep', commemorating the centenary of Hubert Parry's death and the end of the First World War. This concert was part of the Parry 100 Festival, and took place in the stunning St Peter's Church, Bournemouth, where Hubert Parry was christened in 1848.
PROGRAMME:
Ivor Gurney Since I believe in God the Father Almighty
C. Hubert H. Parry Sorrow and pain
Cecilia McDowall I know that my redeemer liveth
C. Hubert H. Parry Love is a sickness
Edward Elgar They are at rest
Herbert Howells Psalm 121
Requiem aeternam (2)
Gustav Holst Nunc Dimittis
INTERVAL
C. Hubert H. Parry Songs of Farewell
AUGUST 2018
Music's Measure
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Sunday 26th August, 3.30pm
St James' Church, Chipping Campden, Glos., GL55 6JG
The choir returns to Chipping Campden for a programme inspired by music's close connection to mathematics, including a piece supposedly written to reflect the proportions of Brunelleschi’s Duomo in Florence.
PROGRAMME:
Edward Elgar There is Sweet Music
Johannes Ockeghem Kyrie from Missa Prolationum
Johannes Brahms Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram
Josquin Des Prez Inviolata integra es
Guillaume Dufay Nuper rosarum flores
György Ligeti Lux aeterna
Arvo Pärt Nunc Dimittis
Per Nørgård Maya Danser (Maya Dances)
Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
Conductor: George Parris
JULY 2018
Eternal be the Sleep
Cheltenham Music Festival
Thursday 5th July, 3.00pm
(Preceded by a Pre-Concert Talk at 2.00pm)
Holy Innocents Church, Highnam, nr Gloucester, GL2 8DP
The second performance of our 2018 series, 'Eternal be the Sleep', commemorating the centenary of Hubert Parry's death and the end of the First World War. This concert was held in the remarkable Parry family church at Highnam and marks The Carice Singers' debut at the Cheltenham Music Festival.
PROGRAMME:
Ivor Gurney Since I believe in God the Father Almighty
C. Hubert H. Parry Sorrow and pain
Cecilia McDowall I know that my redeemer liveth
C. Hubert H. Parry Love is a sickness
Edward Elgar They are at rest
Herbert Howells Psalm 121
Requiem aeternam (2)
Gustav Holst Nunc Dimittis
INTERVAL
C. Hubert H. Parry Songs of Farewell
Conductor: George Parris
APRIL 2018
The Celtic North
The Ludlow Weekend of English Song
Saturday 7th April, 2.00pm
St Laurence's Church, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1AN
An exploration of the mysterious and unruly 'Celtic North', a term used by the composer and poet Sir Arnold Bax in a radio interview of 1932. He was referring to the atmosphere evoked by the landscapes of Ireland's Western seaboard, the Scottish Highlands and islands, and parts of Fennoscandia which, for some imaginative people at the turn of the twentieth century, proved inescapable.
PROGRAMME:
Icelandic hymn Heyr, himna smiður
C. Hubert H. Parry There is an old belief
Wilhelm Stenhammar September
Leevi Madetoja Kevätunta (Dreaming of Spring)
C. Hubert H. Parry Never weather-beaten sail
Edvard Grieg Ved Rondane (At Rondane)
Percy Grainger A Song of Värmeland
Frederick Delius The splendour falls on castle walls
arr. Eyvind Alnaes Jeg lagde mig så sildig (I lay down so late)
Toivo Kuula Nuku (Sleep)
Ina Boyle Gaelic Hymns
Arnold Bax This Worldes Joie
MARCH 2018
Eternal be the Sleep
Oakham School Chapel
Thursday 15th March, 7.30pm
Oakham School Chapel, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 6DT
The first performance of our 2018 series, 'Eternal be the Sleep', commemorating the centenary of Hubert Parry's death and the end of the First World War.
