Truro Cathedral
Saturday 28 November 2009 at 7.30 pm
Concert with pupils from local secondary schools, including
Rutter Gloria
excerpts from Handel's Messiah
Gabrielli Jubiltate deo
plus works by Pascoe and Whitacre
Truro Cathedral
Friday 3 July 2009 at 7.45 pm
Bernstein Chichester Psalms
Tippett Five Spirituals
Barber Sure on this shining night
Whitacre Sleep
plus
Latin American baroque music by Capillas, Padilla, Salazar etc
A liturgical performance of J S Bach's St John Passion in Truro Cathedral
St Mary's Singers and Orchestra, with young professional soloists
Wednesday 18 February and
Thursday 19 February 2009
© Hugo Glendinning
Hall for Cornwall
Eternal Light
St Mary's Singers was invited to take part in three performances with Ballet Rambert and London Musici.
The work is a collaboration between Mark Baldwin (the Artistic director of Ballet Rambert) and composer Howard Goodall. It was given its premiere last autumn and is now touring the country.
'...... St Mary's Singers surpassed themselves, coping tremendously with a score that was at times tricky - the fast, rhythmic a capella Latin phrases, for example.' West Briton, 26 February 2009
Saturday 15 November 2008
Programme included:
Handel Dixit Dominus
Purcell My Beloved Spake
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3
Friday 23 May 2008
Music by composers living in Cornwall
Put by the sun Jonathan Carne
Lux mundi Paul Comeau
The New College Service Paul Drayton
Love's Redeeming Work is Done Paul Drayton
Ending Graham Fitkin
Three Medieval Lyrics Russell Pascoe
Salmow Kernewek Russell Pascoe
The music performed at this concert was recorded on the following three nights for St Mary's Singers' second CD, released in autumn 2008..
Palm Sunday 16 March 2008
A liturgical performance of J S Bach's St Matthew Passion in Truro Cathedral
St Mary's Singers and Orchestra, with young professional soloists
Tuesday 11 December 2007
St Mary's Singers with celebrity readers
Saturday 17 November 2007
Magnificat Bach
Cantata 51 "Jauchzet Gott" Bach
In the second half we were joined by pupils from local secondary schools:
Zadok the Priest Handel
Nulla in mundo pax sincera Vivaldi
Gloria, Et in terra pax, Laudamus te and Gratias agimus tibi (from the Mass in B Minor) Bach
Vespers (1610) Monteverdi
With the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
St John Passion Bach
Carol concert to raise money for the Hame Farm Trust with celebrity
readers and traditional Christmas music.
Music by living composers
i thank you God for most this amazing day - Eric Whitacre
Seek him that maketh the seven stars - Jonathan Dove
Funeral Ikos - John Tavener
O magnum mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Beatitudes - Arvo Pärt
A New Song - James MacMillan
The second half was combined with pupils from local secondary schools, including Richard Lander School, Truro School and Truro High School for Girls:
I was glad - Hubert Parry
I will lift up mine eyes - Russell Pascoe (first performance)
Saturday 17 June 2006
At St Mary’s Penzance
Songs of Farewell Parry
Fantasia and Fugue in G Parry - organ solo played by Tom Little
Faire is the heaven Harris
Funeral Ikos Tavener
Magnificat Drayton
Saturday 20 May 2006
Mass in B Minor J S Bach.
With orchestra and Martene Grimson (soprano), James Laing (alto), Nathan Vale (tenor) and Dawid Kimberg (bass).
Palm Sunday 9 April 2006
Liturgical performance (free admission) with Orchestra
St John Passion Bach
Saturday 19 November 2005
With pupils from Richard Lander School, Truro High School for Girls, Truro School, other local schools and colleges and Robert Sharpe, organ
Ceremony of Carols Britten
Chichester Psalms Bernstein
Blessed City Bairstow
Gloria Rutter
Saturday 25 June 2005
With Orchestra
Chandos anthem no 9 ‘O Praise the lord with one consent’ Handel
The arrival of the Queen of Sheba Handel
Cantata 80 ‘Ein feste Burg’ Bach
Laudate Dominum Mozart
O sing unto the Lord Purcell
The Morning Arne
Palm Sunday 20 March 2005
Liturgical performance (free admission) with Orchestra
St John Passion Bach
Saturday 6 November 2004
With pupils from Richard Lander School, Truro High School for Girls and Truro School and Robert Sharpe, organ
Cantos Sagrados James MacMillan
Missa brevis Britten
Blow, northern wind Russell Pascoe
Requiem John Rutter