Goring Chamber Choir
Concert
Saturday 17th May 2025, 3pm
at St Thomas of Canterbury Church
Goring-on-Thames, RG8 9DS
Director: Frances Brewitt-Taylor
Accompanist: Olivia Canolle
You can also buy tickets at:
Inspiration, The Arcade, High Street, Goring RG8 9AY
Garlands Organic, 6 Reading Road, Pangbourne RG8 7LY
or from a choir member
We'll publish details of the programme here, soon.
| O viridissima virga | Hildegard of Bingen |
| Blessed be thou, heavenly Queen | anon, 13th century |
| Sumer is icumen in | anon, ca.1250 |
| O frondens virga and Magnificat | Hildegard of Bingen |
| Alleluia psallat haec familia | anon, 13th century |
| O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit | Thomas Tallis |
| Hey, ho, to the greenwood | William Byrd |
| If my complaints could passions move | John Dowland |
| Sicut cervus | Giovanni P da Palestrina |
| O beatae viae | Claudio Monteverdi |
| Aure volanti | Francesca Caccini |
| Sainte-Chapelle | Eric Whitacre |
| For the fallen | Eleanor Daley |
| In the hour of my distress | Paul Spicer |
| God so loved the world | Stephanie Martin |
| The peacemakers | Sasha Johnson Manning |
| Veni sancte spiritus | Sarah Quartel |
Rather than select a few items from each century, we focus on three periods, each about 400 years apart. One would expect music to change beyond recognition in the course of a thousand years but the music of centuries ago can still speak powerfully to us today. A great deal of the music that has survived has done so because it was used in daily services, so there is a religious bias. But we can still feel a connection between the soundworld of the 12th and 13th centuries and music composed since 2000.
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