ORA Singers

The ORA singers present a concert themed around ‘the passing of the Year’, centred around Jonathan Dove’s song-cycle of the same name for double choir and piano, alongside Renaissance songs celebrating sacred feast days, poetry for each season and new work from Manchester-based composer Emily Pedersen, and BBC Philharmonic composer-in-residence Tom Coult.

Celebrity reader to be announced!

This concert is generously supported by The Cuthbert Family

EPIPHANY

ORLANDO DE LASSUS Omnes de Saba EMILY PEDERSEN Reflection on Lassus, Omnes de Saba

LENT & PASSIONTIDE

PABLO CASALS O vos omnes PETER PHILIPS Ecce vicit Leo

EASTER

JOHN TAVERNER Dum Transisset Sabbatum JONATHAN HARVEY Dum Transisset Sabbatum PLAINCHANT Victimae Paschali Laudes GREGORIO ALLEGRI Christus Resurgens

JONATHAN DOVE The Passing of the Year i Invocation ii The Narrow Bud Opens Her Beauties to the Sun iii Answer July iv Hot Sun, Cool Fire v Ah, Sun-Flower! vi Adieu! Farewell Earth’s Bliss! vii Ring Out, Wild Bells

TRINITY

JOHN SHEPHERD Libera Nos RYAN WIGGLESWORTH Libera Nos

ALL SAINTS AND ALL SOULS

WILLIAM BYRD Justorum Animae TOM COULT Reflection on Byrd, Justorum Anime ALONSO LOBO Versa est in luctum

ADVENT & CHRISTMAS

ADRIAN PEACOCK Venite Gaudete! PLAINCHANT Hodie Christus Est STEVEN SAMETZ Gaudete

World Premiere performance