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Past Seasons
2008-2009


Fall 2008
Miracles of Winter
Choral music for Advent, Christmas, and Hannukah

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008; 5 pm
Swedenborg Chapel
Quincy & Kirkland St

Cambridge, MA

Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008; 8 pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Berkeley & Marlborough St

Boston, MA


Puer natus in Bethlehem

Lucas Lossius (1508-1582)

Puer natus in Bethlehem

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
    chorale concertato, accompanied by chamber organ and viola da gamba

Johann Herrmann Schein (1586-1630)

A Boy was Born in Bethlehem
    with a special guest choir from Youth Pro Musica, Peter Krasinski, Director

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Of one that is so fair and bright
Lullay my liking

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Mi Y'mallel?

Herbert Fromm (1905-1995)

Hannerot Hallalu

Hugo Adler (1896-1955)

Al Hannissim

Elliot Z. Levine (b. 1948)

Magnificat
    accompanied by Baroque violins and continuo

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Suggested donation $15, Students & Seniors $12
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GBCC VIP Discount Card applies


Spring 2009
Miracles of Spring: Music for Easter and Passover from the 16th, 17th, 18th, & 20th centuries

Read reviews of this concert at The Boston Musical Intelligencer and MIT's The Tech.

Sunday, March 22, 2009; 4 pm
Old Ship Church
90 Main St.

Hingham, MA

Sunday, March 29, 2009; 5 pm
Swedenborg Chapel
Quincy & Kirkland St

Cambridge, MA

Friday, April 3, 2009; 8 pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Berkeley & Marlborough St

Boston, MA


Surgens Jesus Dominus

Peter Philips (1561-1628)

The Woman with the Alabaster Box
Which is the son of...

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Cantata BWV 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden
    with an ensemble of period instruments

Christ lag in Todesbanden
Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt
Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn
Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg
Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm
So feiern wir das hohe Fest
Wir essen und leben wohl

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

De Profundis
    with strings and continuo

De profundis clamavi ad te Domine
Fiant aures tuae
Si inequitates
Quia apud
Sustinuit anima mea
Speravit anima mea
A custodia matutina
Quia apud Dominum
Et ipse redime Israel – Requiem – Et lux perpetua

Michel Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)

Excerpts from Fifteen Passover Songs

Yehezkel Braun (b. 1922)

There will be rest

Frank Ticheli (b. 1958)

Suggested donation $15, Students & Seniors $12
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GBCC VIP Discount Card applies


June 2009

In association with the Boston Early Music Festival, we presented the following concert at the First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley Street, Boston on June 13.

Read Walter Chapin's program notes for this concert.

Surgens Jesus Dominus
Ave Verum Corpus

Peter Philips (1561-1628)

Cantata BWV 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden
    with an ensemble of period instruments

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

De Profundis
    with strings and continuo

Michel Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)

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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.