OPEN UNIVERSITY CHOIR – RECORD OF TERMLY CONCERTS
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OPEN UNIVERSITY CHOIR – RECORD OF TERMLY CONCERTS Entries dated in blue are not counted in the tally of termly concerts. Unless otherwise stated, concerts have been performed in St Michael’s Church, Walton Hall and conducted by Bill Strang. YEAR DATES 20, 21 1978 April PROGRAMME Open Opera (with OU Operatic Society) 23 Nov 1 5, 6 April England and Italy 2 ? June? (Folk-song based programme) 3 ? Nov 4 5 1979 1980 ? March French Music 12, 13 June English Anthem COMPOSER Verdi Prokofiev Purcell Purcell Vaughan Williams Palestrina Britten John Taverner Bartók Grainger JS Bach Victoria Bruckner Buxtehude A Gabrieli Josquin de Prés Costeley Lassus Passereau Berlioz Messiaen Debussy Byrd Gibbons Purcell GF Handel REPERTOIRE ‘Anvil Chorus’ from Il Trovatore Excerpts from War and Peace Dido and Aeneas, concert performance with orchestra Funeral Music for Queen Mary The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune Missa Brevis Choral Dances from Gloriana plus English and Italian madrigals Movements from Western Wind Mass Four Slovak Folksongs Folksong arrangements Cantata 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland motet O magnum mysterium Offertorium Afferentur regi In dulci jubilo Magnificat à 12 arr. Bill Strang (version 1) Motet Ave Christe immolate Allons, gay Je l’ayme bien Il est belle et bon Veni, Creator; Les Ballet des ombres Motet O sacrum convivium Trois chansons de Charles d’Orleans Ave verum corpus This is the record of John Rejoice in the Lord always Chandos Anthem 11a, Let God arise COMMENTS Lecture Theatre Reopening of St Michael’s Church, Walton Cond. Bill Strang and Alan Reddish Cond. BS+AR Cond. BS (+AR?) Cond. BS+AR Cond. BS+AR 1 SS Wesley CV Stanford Vaughan Williams Walton Britten Rutter 6 6, 7 Nov Aspects of Brahms 2, 3 April Schubert 8 6 June 2, 3 July Summer Concert 9 5, 6 Nov B 12, 13 Dec 16 Dec Sherwood Sinfonia Christmas Concert 7 10 11 12 1981 1982 18, 19 March 10, 11 June 4, 5 Nov Wavendon Allmusic Plan Christmas Concert Schubert Bowie Britten Byrd Brahms Blessed be the God and Father Purest and Highest O, clap your hands A Litany A Hymn to the Virgin Christ the Lord is risen again Motet Es ist das Heil uns Kommen her, Op.29/1 Regina coeli, Op.37 No.3 Geleit, Op.41 No.3 Vineta, Op.42 No.2 Tafellied, Op.93b Fahr wohl, Op.93 No.4 An die Sonne Angels’ Chorus from Faust Lebenslust Mass in G major Mass in G major Harmonious Young Men Five Flower Songs Part songs by Sullivan, Parry, Elgar and Stanford Motets Laetentur coeli; O magnum mysterium Drei Gesänge, Op.42 Carols Cond. BS+AR Cond. BS+AR Salford Church Cond. BS+AR Cond. BS+AR Radcliffe School incl. Britten A Ceremony of Carols acc. harp Wavendon Church Allegri Mozart Miserere Missa Brevis in D major, K194 Renaissance madrigals Fly, singing bird; My love dwelt in a Northern Land Hymn to St Cecilia Madrigals and motets Missa Brevis; Three Hungarian Folk-Songs Cond. BS+AR An Entertainment of English Music Elgar Britten Lassus Seiber Cond. BS+AR 2 13 10, 11 March 5, 6 May Inauguration of the Organ built by Robert Shaftoe Mozart + Gershwin and other operatic excerpts (self-selected members in collaboration with OU Operatic Society) 14 23, 24 June A Summer Bouquet 15 10, 11 Nov 16 1983 1984 5, 6 April Duruflé Fauré 17 5, 6 June Edward Elgar (1857-1934) 18 Autumn Saint Cecilia Day Concert? 21, 22 March 20, 21 June 21, 22 Nov 20, 21 March 12, 13 June Sacred Music by George Frideric Handel (1685-1757) 19 1985 20 21 22 23 1986 Dennis Pim FJ Haydn Mozart Gluck Monteverdi Gershwin Gibbons Copland Purcell R Vaughan Williams Brahms Music from Scotland Philips? Purcell? Britten? Christ the Fair Glory ‘Little Organ Mass’ Two choruses from Idomeneo Extract from Iphigenia in Aulis Extract from Orfeo, Act 2 Selected numbers from Porgy and Bess This is the record of John Long time ago; I bought me a cat Evening Service in G minor Linden Lea, The Lovers Ghost Two German Folk-Songs; 3 songs from Sieben Lieder, Op.62 Motets: Ubi caritas; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo Requiem (ed. John Rutter, first public performance) As torrents in summer From the Bavarian Highlands Cantantibus organis? Welcome to all the pleasures? Hymn to Saint Cecilia? Let God arise; Te Deum in A major Lecture Theatre Cond. BS+AR Cond. Donald Burrows Cond. DB Cond. DB Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes Cond. DB Mozart Vesperae solennes de Confessore Cond. DB Vivaldi Verdi Anon, C12 Anon, C16 Anon, c.1520 Anon, c.1540 Anon, C16 William Bowie Gloria Pater noster Hymn to Saint Magnus Agnus Dei from Mass Felix Namque motet Descendi in hortum meum Richt soir opprest O mortal man Harmonious Young Men 3 24 25 Maxwell Davies Britten JS Bach Monteverdi Mozart Rossini 4, 5 Dec 1987 26 27 12, 13 March 21, 22 May 3, 4 Dec Gloriana Britten R Vaughan Williams 28 1988 29 30 31 1989 32 33 34 1990 17, 18 March 1 July JS Bach St John Passion, a sequence of extracts 8, 10 March 29, 30 June Palestrina Verdi Elgar 5, 6 July 36 29, 30 Nov 21, 22 1991 William Bowie Lambert Brahms JS Bach Schubert Tippett Elgar Purcell Haydn Trois chansons de Charles d’Orleans O sacrum convivium L’Enfance du Christ, a sequence extracted from Part 3 The Arrival at Saïs Magnificat à 12 arr. Bill Strang (version 2) Symphony of Psalms, accompaniment arr. piano duet and percussion by Alan Reddish Missa Aeterna Christi Munera Stabat Mater My Love dwelt in a Northern land; The Shower; The Fountain Cowboy Song The Rio Grande (with pianos and perc) A German Requiem, extracts Motet Komm, Jesu, komm Mass in G major Negro Sprituals from A Child of Our Time Two Choral Songs, Op.73 The Masque in Dioclesian ‘Nelson’ Mass Debussy Messiaen Berlioz A Gabrieli Stravinsky ?, ? Nov 5, 6 April English Music Tudor motets and madrigals Choral Dances from Gloriana Three Shakespeare Songs Messiah, Part II etc 30 Nov, 1 Dec 35 37 Passion Music from Handel’s Messiah French Music Lullaby for Lucy Five Flower Songs motet Jesu, meine Freude Beatus Vir Missa Brevis in F, K192 Petite Messe Solennelle, extracts Cond. Alan Reddish 4 38 March 4, 5 July 39 5 Dec 40 1992 2, 3 July 42 3, 4 Dec 1993 44 45 1994 Rutter Maxwell Davies Britten On the bicentenary of the composer’s death Mozart 18, 20 March 41 43 A Dainty Dish 24, 25 March 1, 2 July 10 Dec 4 Feb Schütz Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot JS Bach Fauré Ravel Alkan Britten Mozart Crossover The Unveiling of The Fabric of Milton Keynes Open University 25th Anniversary Concert Stravinsky Tavener Hindemith Seiber Britten Kodály Górecki JS Bach Jonathan Willcocks Handel John Byron 46 28 April 47 7, 8 July Part-Songs and Folk-Song Arrangements in the English Tradition J Willcocks 14 Oct OU 25th Anniversary Britten Five Childhood Lyrics Lullabye for Lucy Rejoice in the Lamb (arr. organ and piano by Bill Strang) Requiem Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt; Seven Last Words from the Cross motet Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden Cantique de Jean Racine Trois Chansons Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot Saint Nicolas Ave verum corpus, K618 Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K339 Otche nash’; Ave Maria The Lord’s Prayer La Biche; Un Cygne Three Hungarian Folk-songs Hymn to the Virgin Jesus and the Traders Totus Tuus Missa in B minor Simpson; Seven Willows; OU! (first performance) Chandos Anthem No.9, O praise the Lord Ritual Spells, words by Richard Gaskell, commissioned by the Choir (first performance) Fabric Poems and works by William Hayes, Benjamin Cooke, William Beale, Julius Benedict, Sterndale Bennett, Stanford, Holst and Grainger Jubilate Deo Lecture Theatre With students of Bury Lawn School LT Church of Christ the Cornerstone LT Church of Christ the 5 Thanksgiving Service 48 49 1995 50 51 52 53 9 Dec 6, 7 April 23 May Concert at The Stables, Wavendon as part of the Keyne on Music series 6, 7 July British Music Alan Reddish B Strang Purcell Stravinsky A Gabrieli Cherubini 16 Nov 1996 Rutter Hassler Beethoven Palestrina JS Bach Britten JS Bach J Willcocks Britten Bill Strang 22 March 27, 28 June Ian Hayter Brahms 54 55 56 1997 27, 29 Nov First of two programmes celebrating the bicentenary of Schubert’s birth 1 May 18 Oct Second Schubert programme BT Voices for Hospices 19 Nov 20 Nov Handel Handel God be in my head Cantate Domino Mass in C, Op.86 Stabat mater motet Komm, Jesu, komm Hymn to Saint Cecilia motet Komm, Jesu, komm Fabric Poems Hymn to Saint Cecilia Our father in heaven (first performance) and short pieces by Stravinsky, Tavener, Fauré, Rutter, Hassler and William Bowie Renaissance madrigals and ayres, 18th and 19thcentury partsongs and 20th-century pieces including Rondo à la Grecque (first perf?) Our father in heaven Funeral Music for Queen Mary Mass Magnificat à 12 arr. B Strang (version 3) Requiem in C minor South African freedom songs Dowland Ayres The Christ Child Lieder und Romanzen, Op.93a Der 23. Psalm, D706 Ständchen, D920 Miriam’s Song of Victory, D942, first performance of a new translation by Eleanor Milburn, Bill Strang and Ekkehard Thumm Mass in E flat, D950 Messiah, with Milton Keynes City Orchestra Messiah, Part 1 Messiah, Parts 2 & 3 Cornerstone LT Church of Christ the Cornerstone, OU LT The Stables LT LT LT St Peter & St Paul Church, Buckingham LT 6 57 58 1998 12 March 2, 3 July 59 11 Dec 60 25, 26 March 1999 61 2000 25 Nov 26 March 13 April JF Haydn Dennis Pim Stephen Potter John Byron Donald Burrows Bill Strang Britten Bruckner John Byron Byrd Gibbons R Vaughan Williams Toch Alan Reddish 1, 2 July 62 63 Birthday Cards (new pieces solicited from friends of the Choir for its 25th birthday) Opening celebrations in MK Theatre Music for Choir, Brass Ensemble, Percussion and Organ Randall Thompson JS Bach John Byron Bill Strang Bruckner 64 30 June, 1 July 65 30 Nov A Short Term Solution Rutter Finzi Jenni Smith Saint-Saëns Bartók FJ Haydn Jonathan Willcocks ‘Harmoniemesse’ *The Power of Music, words by Sian Clifford *Messiah: the sequel, words by Judi Moore *Nachtwache I *Cecilia’s Choir *Four Latin Inscriptions (*first performances) Five Flower Songs Motets Locus iste; Afferentur regi: Virga Jesse floruit Ritual Spells (augmented orchestration) Laetentur coeli Behold, thou hast made my days Mass in G minor LT LT Geograpical Fugue SATB: a Lawrentian menagerie (first performance) Frostiana Christmas Oratorio, Parts I-III ‘Autumn’ from Ritual Spells LT MK Theatre Choral Prelude on ‘Hymn to Saint Magnus’ (first performance) Offertorium: Afferentur regi; Antiphon: Tota pulchra; Ecce sacerdos Gloria Seven Songs of Frank Bridges, Nos 1, 3 The Arrow and the Song (first performance) Deux Chœurs, Op.68 Four Slovak Folksongs Te Deum in C (1800) In the beginning – commissioned for the Choir with financial assistance from the Open University Millennium Fund (first performance) LT LT 7 66 2001 5 April Verdi Vivaldi 67 27, 29 June Birds and Beasts 68 29 Nov Music for the Chapel Royal 69 70 71 72 2002 2003 73 74 75 21 March 26, 28 June 2004 Schubert Eating and Drinking 28 Nov 10, 11 April WA Mozart Tchaikovsky Britten William Bowie 25, 27 June From the ridiculous to the sublime 14 Oct Celebration of the life and achievements of Lord Perry 10 Dec 25 March Handel Elgar Jon Dixon Stephen Potter arr. Bill Strang Thompson Stuart Pemberton Anon. arr Bill Strang Handel FJ Haydn Hassler Bruckner Pater noster Gloria Part-songs, madrigals and rounds, both lighthearted and more serious, relating to the animal kingdom Te Deum in A major Let God arise ‘Caroline’ Te Deum The Anthem on the Peace Mass in A flat, D678 Lunchtime menu including Tequila Samba, The Goslings, The Banquet Fugue, Tea for Two, Drunken Sailor, Madrigals of the day and Songs of Love and Friendship freshly prepared by Bill Strang (first performance) Mass in C minor, K427 Music for the Russian Orthodox Church Jubilate Deo; Antiphon, Op.56b Three Masts; Welcome, Happy Morning! (accompaniments arr. organ and piano by Bill Strang) Music on a range of silly and serious texts, incl. Death on the Hills Calico Pie (nonsense poems by Edward Lear) Silly Songs for Kids (words by Spike Milligan) ‘Amazing Grace’ (first performance) The Road Not Taken The V-C’s Song Cond. Donald Burrows Old Lecture Theatre OLT OLT Berrill Theatre Auld Lang Syne Zadok the Priest ‘Nelson’ Mass Motets Cantate Domino; Laetentur caeli Mass No.2 in E minor OLT OLT 8 76 17, 18 June ? 77 78 79 2005 2006 86 30 March 22, 23 June 83 85 David KirbyAshmore JS Bach Songs of Love 8 Dec 82 84 17 March 23, 24 June 23 Nov 2007 29 March 28, 29 June 29 Nov EJ Moeran Celebration for the opening of the new Library 8 Dec 80 81 A Time for Songs and Dances Hummel Anon. arr. Bill Strang Christopher Marr Brahms FJ Haydn Motets for All Seasons Mendelssohn Britten Gow arr. Bill Strang Ireland Helen Perkin Holst FJ Haydn Palestrina JS Bach Brahms Finzi Helen Perkin Victoria FJ Haydn Songs of Springtime English madrigals and partsongs Madrigals and part-songs OU Library atrium Requiem OLT motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 Mass in B flat, Op.77 A red, red Rose (first performance) OLT And I Will Betroth You Liebeslieder, Op.52 Insanae et vanae curae Missa in tempore belli (‘Paukenmesse’) Motets by Peter Philips, Aichinger, Tallis, Byrd, Poulence, Messiaen and Mozart Sechs Sprüche Old Joe has gone fishing Caller herrin’ A Cradle Song Meg Merrilies; Ode on Melancholy (first performance since the time of their composition) Six Choral Folk Songs Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida (‘Heiligmesse’) Stabat mater motet Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228 Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op.109 Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op.17 Settings of Five Poems by John Keats Motet O magnum mysterium ‘Theresienmesse’ OLT OLT OLT OLT OLT 9 87 2008 88 89 90 2009 13 March 12, 13 June Innocence and Experience: music by John Ireland, his teacher and pupils 15 Nov A Tribute to Stuart Pemberton 27 Nov 2, 3 April 91 28 June 92 26, 27 Nov 93 94 2010 24 April 24, 25 ffortissimo: a concert celebrating the University’s 40th Anniversary and including small-scale pieces written specially for the Choir over the years The Open University 40th Anniversary Concert Duruflé Poulenc Fauré Ireland Stanford Britten Moeran Ireland Britten Ireland Stuart Pemberton R Thompson FJ Haydn R Thompson Helen Perkin J Willcocks B Strang R Thompson J Willcocks Beethoven Schütz Kuhnau JS Bach From St George’s to St Mary & Britten St Giles: a programme featuring music W Bowie by William Bowie, former organist of the Blitheman ‘Father’ Willis organ in its original home JS Bach in Edinburgh Schütz The Choir was joined by Quorum and AM Thomson Paul Daggett (organ) Kuhnau A Gabrieli Rossini motets Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo motet Exultate Deo Requiem, Op.48 Laughing Song; Cupid; Cradle Song; The Blue Bird A Hymn to the Virgin Spring, the Sweet Spring; Good Wine Immortality Choral Dances from Gloriana The Hills The V-C’s Song Choose Something Like a Star ‘Schöpfungsmesse’ (‘Creation Mass’) The Road Not Taken To Autumn Simpson: OU! Four Latin Inscriptions Choose Something Like a Star In the beginning Symphony No.9, Op.125 (‘Choral’) with Milton Keynes City Orchestra cond. Sian Edwards Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt, SWV 36 Tristis est anima mea motet Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 Jubilate Deo; Antiphon, Op.56b Welcome, Happy Morning!; Three Masts: Faith In pace motet Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt, SWV 36 Ye gates, lift up your heads Tristis est anima mea Magnificat à 12 ed. CF Simkins Prayer from Moïse et Pharon OLT Stantonbury Campus Theatre OLT Milton Keynes Theatre St Mary and St Giles Church, Stony Stratford 10 June 95 96 Verdi Schubert Handl Lauridsen Mozart Brahms 25 Nov 2011 7 April 97 30 June R Vaughan Williams Parry Arr. Stanford Grainger 99 24 Nov Bruckner 99 2012 22 March 100 28, 29 June 101 102 2013 22 Nov 21 March Mozart A programme of Scottish music built Bill Strang around the première of William Bowie’s Durham Master’s degree exercise (1961), newly transcribed from the manuscript Robert Johnson by B Strang Anon. C16 William Bowie Women Composers Raffaella Aleotti Clara Schumann Liz Lane Undine Smith Moore Beethoven JL Bach Stravinsky Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco Miriam’s Song of Victory, D942 Motet Ecce concipies O magnum mysterium Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K321 Ein deutsches Requiem (accompanied by the composer’s own arrangement for piano duet) Linden Lea Three Shakespeare Songs Come, pretty wag, and sing Quick! We have but a second British Folk-Music Settings: Brigg Fair; Irish tune from County Derry; I’m seventeen come Sunday Motets Locus iste; Afferentur regi; Ecce sacerdos with accompaniment arr. for wind instruments by B Strang ‘Coronation’ Mass in C, K317 Choral Prelude on ‘Hymn to Saint Magnus’ (revised version with tenor solo and enlarged ensemble) Deus misereatur nostril Richt soir opprest A Scottish Overture (first performance) The De’il’s Awa’ Thomas the Rhymer (first performance) Motet Exurgat Deus Drei gemischte Chöre In Flanders Fields; Red Sky at Night We shall walk through the valley (arr.); Bound for Canaan’s Land (arr.); Lord, we give thanks to Thee Mass in C, Op. 86 motet Das ist meine Freude Otsche nasch; Bogoroditse Dievo Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Hub Theatre 11 Górecki JS Bach Vittoria Aleotti Wilbye Pearsall Stephen Potter Victoria Britten Henry Purcell Croft Handel Lambert Stravinsky 103 13, 14 June 104 21 Nov 105 2014 27 March 106 26, 27 June Plainsong hymn Palestrina Verdi Rossini 107 13 Nov 108 2015 26 March 109 25, 26 June Randall Thompson Liz Lane Schütz JL Bach JS Bach Brahms Stanford Dyson Vaughan Williams Totus Tuus motet Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 Io v’amo vita mia Adieu, sweet Amaryllis Lay a garland Deare Besse (first performance) Missa O quam gloriosum Five Flower Songs, Op. 47 I was glad; Thou knowest, Lord The Lord is a sun and a shield; Jubilate Deo in D My heart is inditing The Rio Grande Symphony of Psalms (with piano and percussion accompaniments) Aeterna Christi munera Missa Aeterna Christi munera Pater noster Extracts from Petite Messe Solennelle (Kyrie and Cum Sancto Spititu) Alleluia Frostiana (with orchestral accompaniment) In Flanders Fields Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock Unsere Trübsal Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf Fest- und Gedenksprüche Extracts from Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Op. 49 Four Songs for Sailors Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Hub Theatre Cond. 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