Details
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
Practical
Available tickets
29/04 2025 7:00pm