UPCOMING EVENTS
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[17th March 2020]
Elgar famously wrote 'the trees are singing my music - or have I sung theirs?'. Often his music evokes a sense that nature really is speaking to its listener, placing him within a wider aesthetic of Naturklang which can be found in many pieces from across Northern Europe.
Focusing on springtime, we explore this rich repertoire of music, with part-songs by Elgar and his English contemporaries alongside some fascinating European rarities and a vibrant piece by Australian composer Ross Edwards.
PROGRAMME:
Edward Elgar The Shower & The Fountain
Herbert Howells The Summer is coming
Jean Sibelius Sydämeni laulu (Song of my heart)
Leevi Madetoja Kevätunta (Dreams of Spring)
Rued Langgaard Lokkende toner (Enticing tones)
John Ireland Spring, the sweet Spring
Edward Elgar Owls: An Epitaph & O Wild West Wind
INTERVAL
Frederick Delius On Craig Ddu (An Impression of Nature)
Max Reger Schweigen (Silence)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Silence and Music
Arvo Pärt The Deer’s Cry
Ross Edwards Sacred Kingfisher Psalms
Conductor: George Parris
11
May
13
Mar
Witney, Oxfordshire
Friday 13th March, 7.30pm
High Street Methodist Church, Witney, OX28 6HG
Tickets: £12 or via subscription to Witney Music Society
available at the venue from 7pm on the day or online (with a booking fee)
14
Mar
Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire - CANCELLED
Saturday 14th March, 7.30pm (pre-concert talk 6.45pm)
St Peter ad Vincula, Church St, Hampton Lucy, CV35 8BE
Tickets: £15 unreserved (in aid of the church restoration fund)
Tickets can be reserved in advance by emailing jandmwhyman@btinternet.com
18
Mar
Richmond, North Yorkshire - CANCELLED
Richmondshire Concerts
Wednesday 18th March, 7.30pm
Influence Church, Victoria Rd, Richmond, DL10 4AS
Tickets: £16 adults / £1 full-time students
Newbury Spring Festival
St Martin's Church, East Woodhay
Monday 11th May, 7.30pm
St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, RG20 0AL
PAST EVENTS:
FEBRUARY 2020
Helsinki Concert
George Parris Master's Exam Concert
Saturday 22nd February, 6.00pm
Sibelius Academy R-Building Concert Hall,
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9, Helsinki, FINLAND
The Carice Singers made their Finland debut, performing in the Master's Degree Exam Concert of their Conductor, George Parris. The concert marked Parris' completion of his studies at the Sibelius Academy, which he passed with top marks! The programme featured upcoming pieces from our Tis Nature's Voice programme and also included Helsinki-based choir Spira Ensemble.
OCTOBER 2019
In Paradisum
St Mary's Bourne Street,
All Saints' 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.
