Clare Consort 2020
Saturday 18 April 7.30pm ‘O clap your hands!’
The Clare Consort
Graham Ross | director
Graham Ross returns to conduct The Clare Consort in a joyful programme of eight-part repertoire, from Schütz’s Deutsches Magnificat and Holst’s Nunc dimittis to Gibbons’ O clap your hands together and Harris’s utterly sublime Faire is the heaven. This vocal octet of alumni from the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge also perform three of the great Bach motets – arguably some of the greatest a cappella motets ever composed – and close their programme with some sumptuous and toe-tapping arrangements of Gershwin and Irving Berlin.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (1852–1924) Three motets
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ (1585–1672) Deutsches Magnificat
GUSTAV HOLST (1874–1934) Nunc dimittis
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Der Geist hilft
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ORLANDO GIBBONS (1583–1625) O clap your hands together
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Komm, Jesu, Komm
WILLIAM HARRIS (1883–1973) Faire is the heaven
ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS (b. 1977) Amazing Grace
ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS Stars
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898–1937) arr. GRAHAM ROSS (b. 1985) Summertime
IRVING BERLIN (1888–1989) arr. JIM CLEMENTS (b. 1983) Cheek to cheek
MARVIN HAMLISCH (1944–2012) arr. JIM CLEMENTS Nobody does it better