Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

ATTIRED WITH STARS

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge [https://www.clarecollegechoir.com] and conductor Graham Ross [https://www.grahamross.com] return to Bunyan Meeting with a spectacular choral programme for Bedford Music Club. William Byrd’s masterful Mass for four voices is interwoven amongst works from Monteverdi and Rachmaninov to Arvo Pärt and Freya Waley-Cohen, including Howells’ St Paul’s Service and James MacMillan’s masterpiece, Miserere.

PROGRAMME

Charles Wood Hail, gladdening light William Byrd Mass for four voices: Kyrie Claudio Monteverdi Nisi Dominus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave verum corpus William Byrd Ave verum corpus Roderick Williams Ave verum corpus Re-imagined Benjamin Britten A Hymn to St Columba William Byrd Mass for four voices: Gloria Herbert Howells Magnificat (St Paul’s Service)

interval

James MacMillan Miserere Freya Waley-Cohen Attired with stars William Byrd Mass for four voices: Sanctus & Benedictus Herbert Howells Nunc dimittis (St Paul’s Service) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Legend (Crown of Roses) Sergei Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Dyevo Caroline Shaw and the swallow William Byrd Mass for four voices: Agnus Dei Arvo Pärt Magnificat Gustav Holst Nunc dimittis