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Past Seasons
2005-2006


Fall 2005
Milestones: Choral Music for Special Times

Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005; 5:00 pm
Swedenborg Chapel
Quincy & Kirkland St

Cambridge, MA

Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005; 8:00 pm
Church of the Covenant
Berkeley & Newbury St

Boston, MA


In the Beginning
for chorus and soprano soloist

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Musikalische Exequien
for six soloists, choir, and continuo

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

selections from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (The Christmas Story)

Hugo Distler (1908-1942)

Missa Ecce Ancilla Domini

Guillaume Dufay (d. 1474)


Spring 2006
An English Anthology: Choral Music from "This Scepter'd Isle"

Sunday, Apr. 2, 2006; 5:00 pm
Swedenborg Chapel
Quincy & Kirkland St

Cambridge, MA

Saturday, Apr. 8, 2006; 8:00 pm
Church of the Covenant
Berkeley & Newbury St

Boston, MA

Our spring program focuses on English a cappella choral music from the 16th-20th centuries, together with secular works from Italian composers whose music influenced the English madrigalists.

Sacred music from the Tudor era

Let God arise
The lamentation of Jeremiah

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

Westron Wynde Mass: Gloria in excelsis Deo

John Taverner (c. 1490-1545)

The Elizabethan era: The transalpine connection

Leggiadre ninfe

Luca Marenzio (c. 1553-1599)

All creatures now are merry-minded

John Bennet (fl. 1599-1614)

Raggi dov'e il mio bene
Si ch'io vorrei morire

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Lady, if I through grief
I go before, my darling
It was a lover and his lass

Thomas Morley (c. 1557-1602)

Viver lieto voglio

Giovanni Gastoldi (fl. 1582-1609)

Hark, all ye lovely saints above

Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575-1623)

Moro lasso

Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613)

Oft have I vowed

John Wilbye (1574-1638)

Late Renaissance & early Baroque

Fantasia for viols
Have mercy upon me, O God

William Byrd (1543-1623)

Above the starrs

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Rejoice in the Lord alway

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

The twentieth century

Love's tempest

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

The cloud-capp'd towers

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

To daffodils

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Song for Athene

John Tavener (1944-)

Set me as a seal upon thine heart

William Walton (1902-1983)

Suggested donation $12, Students & Seniors $8

The graphic in the Oriana Consort's logo is the concluding flourish in the signature of Queen Elizabeth I of England, to whom Thomas Morley, in 1601, dedicated his madrigal collection The Triumphes of Oriana.