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The Reading Bach Choir giving a concert in the Abbey Church, conducted by JanJoost van Elburg.

 

PREVIOUS CONCERTS AT DOUAI ABBEY

Information about Recordings made at Douai Abbey

January 22, 2012
The House of the Mind
Bartholomew Consort JanJoost van Elburg Director, Nick Shaw Organ& Phil Bysh Trumpet

  • Mass in G minor - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Variations on an old English Melody 'Heartsease' for organ - Geoffrey Shaw
  • The House of the Mind - Herbert Howells
  • Five Negro Spirituals - Michael Tippett
  • Lord, thou hast been our refuge - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Psalm Prelude op 32 no 1 for organ - Herbert Howells
  • Magnificat - Giles Swayne
  • Faire is the Heaven - William Harris
  • Bring us, O Lord God - William Harris
December 31, 2011
Christmas Concert
Commotio Matthew Berry Director

  • There is no rose (2010) - Andrew Cusworth
  • O magnum mysterium (1998) - Javier Busto
  • A Hymn to the Virgin (2004) - Francis Pott
  • The snow lay on the ground (2008) - Frank Ferko
  • Bring us, O Lord God (2009) - James MacMillan
  • Mary's Carol (2007) - Francis Pott
  • Alma Redemptoris Mater (2010) - David Gorton
  • I sing of a maiden (2000) - Francis Pott
  • Beata es, Virgo Maria (2007) - Ambroz Copi
  • Stella quam viderant Magi (2011) - Ambroz Copi
  • Quem vidistis pastores? (1993) - Dan Locklair
  • O magnum mysterium (1993) - Dan Locklair
  • Hodie Christus natus est (1993) - Dan Locklair
  • The rose in the middle of winter (2009) - Bob Chilcott
  • A babe is born (1961) - Peter Racine Fricker
  • Ding dong, merrily on high (1963) - arr. Malcolm Williamson
  • There is no rose (2011 - World Premier) - Richard Allain
  • Silent Night - Franz Gruber arr. David Hill
November 26, 2011
The Mystery of Advent
The Cecilia Consort Janet Coxwell Director, Patrick Craig countertenor & Charlotte Smets Cello

  • Magnum Mysterium - Lauridsen
  • Great 'O' antiphons - Plainchant
  • Seven Magnificat antiphons - Part
  • The Lamb - Tavener
  • Ave Maria - Stravinsky
  • Totus Tuus - Gorecki
  • Magnificat - Part
  • Spiegel im Speigel - Part
  • Lux Aurumque - Whitacre
  • Four Motets for Christmas - Poulenc
October 30, 2011
Bach Recital
Sarah Sew Violin & Antonio Novais Cello

  • Sonata no 1 in G minor for violon solo BWV 1001
  • Suite No 3 in C for cello solo BWV 1009
  • Works from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook arranged for violin & cello
  • Two-part Inventions arranged for violin & cello
October 15, 2011
Goring Chamber Choir & Charivari Agreable
directed by Frances Brewitt-Taylor & Kah-Ming Ny

  • Gloria - Claudio Monteverdi
  • My heart is inditing - Henry Purcell
  • Concerto III per tromba - Johann Wilhelm Hertel
  • My heart is inditing - George Frederick Handel
  • Concerto in F for oboe & strings - Anton Reichenauer
  • Gloria - Antonio Vivaldi
July 23, 2011
Ian Crabbe organ

  • Paean - Kenneth Leighton
  • Cornet Voluntary in E minor - John Stanley
  • Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 - J.S. Bach
  • Psalm Prelude set 1 no 2 - Herbert Howells
  • Now Thank We All Our God - Karg-Elert
  • Scherzo in G minor - Enrico Bossi
  • Lied (from 24 Pieces in Free Style) - Louis Vierne
  • Final from Symphony no 1 - Louis Vierne

Basingstoke Male Voice Choir
directed by Peter Allen
Peter Ball flute

  • Tydi - Arwel Hughes
  • My Lord What a Morning - Spiritual
  • The Lost Chord - Arthur Sullivan
  • Amen - arr. Harold Treloar
  • Jacob's Ladder - Spiritual arr. Sander Van Marion
  • Adagio form Sonata in G minor (arranged for solo flute) - J.S. Bach
  • Where Shall I Be? - Spiritual arr. Bryan Davies
  • Canon - Pachabel arr. Noel Goemanne
  • Thanks be to God - Stanley Dickson
  • Gwahoddiad - arr. John Davies
  • Steal Away - Spiritual
  • Benedictus - Karl Jenkins arr. P Allen
July 9, 2011
Sospiri

  • Ave Maria - Gabriel Jackson
  • Ave Maria - Igor Stravinsky
  • In all his works - Gabriel Jackson
  • Salve Regina - John Duggan
  • Plebs Angelica - Michael Tippett
  • Salve Regina 2 - Gabriel Jackson
  • Salve Regina - John Browne
  • I gaze upon you - Gabriel Jackson
  • Justorum Animae - William Byrd
  • Justorum Animae - Gabriel Jackson
  • O Sacrum Convivium - Thomas Tallis
  • O Sacrum Convivium - Gabriel Jackson
  • Te lucis - Thomas Tallis
June 11, 2011
Basingstoke Choral Society
New London Sinfonia
David Gibson (conductor)

  • Beatis Vir - Vivaldi
  • Silete Venti - Handel - Laurie Ashworth - soprano
  • O Quam dilecta - Rameau
  • Gloria - Vivaldi
May 14, 2011
Harmonic Spiritual Theatre

Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

  • Respondi: Abramo - Anerio
  • O infelix recessus - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • O Jesu mea vita - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • Stabat Virgo Maria - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • Ure me Domine - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • Sparge la morte - Gesualdo
  • Novella aurora - Palestrina
  • O mors, ero mors tua - Bouzignac
  • Le reniement de St-Pierre - Charpentier
  • Sedea Iasso Gesu - Anerio
  • Maria quid ploras - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • Gloria tua - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • Plagas tuas - Monteverdi/Copponi
  • Jephte - Carissimi
Sunday March 27
Trio Sospiroso
Clare Mellor (flute), Sue Black (viola), Jenny Broome (harp)

Music by Debussy, Faure, Vaughan Williams, Elizabeth Poston & Edward Lambert

March 12, 2011
Concert for the Beginning of Lent

Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London
with the Bristol Ensemble, Roger Huckle (leader)
Robert Gough (conductor)

  • Tenebrae factae sunt - Vytautas Miskinis
  • Lighten mine eyes - Bo Hansson
  • Hear my prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell
  • In the departure of the Lord - John Bull
  • Popule meus - Tomas Luis de Victoria
  • Miserere - Gregorio Allegri
  • Seven Last Words from the Cross - James MacMillan
Febraury 25, 2011
Southern Sinfonia
David Hill (conductor), Timothy Gill (cello),

Febraury 12, 2011
Reading Bach Choir
Matthew Hamilton (conductor), Nicholas Shaw (organ), Serenhedd James (second organ and Hindu temple gong)

December 31, 2010
Rodolphus Choir
Ralph Allwood (conductor), Tom Winpenny (organ)

November 27, 2010
Cecilia Consort
Janet Coxwell & Patrick Craig (conductors),

November 13, 2010
Encoro
Janet Lincé & Sarah Tenant-Flowers(conductors), Paul Ayres (organ), Paul Silverthorne (Viola), Ben Watson (percussion) Janet Lincé (tanpura).

October 30, 2010
Vasari Singers
Jeremy Backhouse(conductor), Martin Ford (organ).

October 9, 2010
Dehmel Ensemble
Sarah Sew (violin), Yuka Iahizuka (violin), Glan Donnelly (viola), Stephanie Edmundson (viola), Joanathan Rees (cello), Romain Lapeyre (cello).

September 25, 2010
Reading Phoenix Choir
David Crown (conductor) Katie Nichols (soprano) Christopher Enston (organ)

  • Amazing Grace - arr Eriks Esenvalds
  • Ehre und preis - J.S. Bach
  • Ave Verum - William Byrd
  • O Nata Lux - Thomas Tallis
  • Alma Redemptoris Mater - Tomas Luis de Victoria
  • Crucifixus - Antonio Lotti
  • Vidit suum Dulcem Natum - Pergolesi (from Stabat Mater)
  • With Verdure Clad - Haydn (from Creation)
  • Ave Verum - W.A. Mozart
  • Hail Gladdening Light - Charles Wood
  • Os justi - Anton Bruckner
  • I was glad - Hubert Parry
  • I will praise Thee O Lord - Knut Nystedt
  • O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
  • Hymn to the Trinity - Kenneth Leighton
  • Lux Aurumque - Eric Whitacre
  • Choral Prelude: Komm Heiliger Geist - J.S. Bach
  • March on Handel's 'Lift up your Heads' - Alexander Guilmant
  • Ezechiel saw de Wheel - arr William L Dawson
  • I hear a Voice prayin' - arr Houston Bright
  • The Lord bless you and keep you - John Rutter
September 4, 2010
Concerto delle Donne
Donna Deam, Faye Newton & Gill Ross (sopranos) Alastair Ross (organ & director) with Concerto delle Donne Choir

  • Messe pour le Port Royal- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
    Introit Os iusti, Kyrie, Gloria, Graduel Os iusti, Alleluia Franciscus pauper , Credo,
    Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Communion Fidelis servus.
  • Offertoire sur les Grands Jeux (Messe pour les convents) -Francois Couperin
  • Elevation motet O salutaris,
  • Tantum ergo - Francois CouperinFrancois Couperin
  • laudate Dominum - Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Organ: Plein Jeux - Nicholas-Antoine Lebegue
  • Choral varié sur le theme du Veni Creator - Maurice Durulfé
  • Omnes gentes gaudete - Giacomo Carissimi
  • Benedictus Deus et Pater - Giacomo Carissimi
  • Duo Seraphim - Claudi Monteverdi
  • Kyrie in canon for 5 sopranos K 89 - W.A. Mozart
  • Te lucis ante terminum - Plainchant
July 25, 2010
Golden Windows
Howard Rowntree - trumpet & Terence Charleston - organ

  • March from Joshua - G.F Handel
  • A ground to ye organ in A minor -Albertus Bryne
  • Recit de Nazard, Echos, Ite missa est - Selosse ms late 17th century
  • Trumpet Concerto in E flat - JB G Neruda
  • Prelude & fugue in C minor BVV 546 - J.S. Bach
  • Aria for trumpet & organ - Jean Rivier
  • Carillon for organ - Herbet Murrill
  • Golden Window no 4 from Windows on the Pictures of Marc Chagall - Petr Eben
July 11, 2010
Berkshire Youth Choir - Peter Asprey - director

  • Jesu Rex Admirabilis - G.P. da Palestrina
  • Super Flumina Babylonis -G.P. da Palestrina
  • My love dwelt in a northern land - Edward Elgar
  • Full Fathom Five - Charles Wood
  • Ave Maria - Jacob Alcadelt
  • The gift to be Simple - trad. arr. Bob Chilcott
  • Bridge over Troubled Waters - Simon and Garfunkel
  • Open the window Mr Noahy - Norman Morris
  • Ubi caritas - Maurice Duruflé

Berkshire Young Voices - Peter Hunt & Jo McNally - directors

  • Streetseller - Bob Chilcott
  • Tall Story - Arthur Benjamin
  • A little Jazz Mass - Bob Chilcott

Berkshire County Flute Choir - Tess Hawken - conductor

  • Canon in D - Pachelbell arr. Bill Hawken
  • Pie Jesus - Gabriel Fauré arr. Bruce Behnke

Berkshire Senior Girls Choir - Peter Asprey - director

  • There is sweet music - Jon Bailey
June 26, 2010
Newbury Choral Society
  • Hymn to St Cecilia - Benjamin Britten
  • Requiem - Gabriel Fauré
June 12, 2010
Alpha and Omega

Chorus
Roderic Varity - organ
Janet Lincé - conductor

  • I thank you, God - Eric Whitacre
  • O magnum Mysterium - Francis Poulenc
  • The evening watch - Gustav Holst
  • Fantasia in G BWV 572 - J. S. Bach
  • Lux aeterna - David Hamilton
  • When David heard - Eric Whitacre
  • Song for Athene - John Tavener
  • I am the day - Jonathan Dove
  • Le Banquet cé leste - Olivier Messiaen
  • Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen - Arvo Part
  • My spirit sang all day - G Finzi
  • Balm in Gilead - arr. Jon Washburn
May 21, 2010
Newbury Spring Festival Concert

European Union Chamber Orchestra, directed by Hans-Peter Hofman
Alexander Sitkovetsky - violin

May 10, 2010
Newbury Spring Festival Concert

Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, directed by Daniel Hyde

Glories of English Church Music

April 24, 2010
Arion Orchestra conducted by Brien Stait
Eleanor Turner - harp

March 20, 2010
The Ionian Singers directed by Timothy Salter

March 6, 2010
Reading Bach Choir, 18th Century Sinfonia & English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble conducted by JanJoost van Elburg

  • Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610) - Claudio Monteverdi
Katharine Hawnt & Sophia Brumfitt sopranos
Marco van de Kludertr & Mark Dobell Tenors
Luke Phillips Alto & Tenor
Edmund Saddington & Christopher Hunter Basses
February 14, 2010
The Bartholomew Consort conducted by JanJoost van Elburg

  • Unsere Trubsal - J.L. Bach
  • Gedenke meiner, mein Gott - J.L. Bach
  • Sonata for cello & basso continuo - D Gabrieli
  • Jesu, meine Freude - J.S. Bach
  • Salve Regina - P.F. Cavalli
  • Jephte - G Carissimi
    Filia - Esther Levin
    Jephte - Johm Tucker
    Organ - Steven Hollas
    Cello/Gamba - Henrik Persson
    Violone - Bill Hunt
December 31, 2009
New Year's Eve Concert of Christmas Music - Commotio directed by Matt Berry

  • Hail gladdening light - David Bednall
  • O Oriens - Pawel Lukaszewski
  • The Heart-in-Waiting - Bob Chilcott
  • Even such is time - Herbert Howells
  • He carried me away in the spirit - James Whitbourn
  • Pure River of Water of Life - James Whitbourn
  • The Great Amen - Peter Klatzow
  • Adam lay ybounden - Matthew Martin
  • Motet for the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Frank Ferko
  • Of one that is so fair and bright - James Whitbourn
  • Wexford Carol - Timothy Noon
  • O Magnum mysterium - Jaakko Mantyjarvi (European premier)
  • As Joseph was a-walking - Grancis Pott (World premier)
  • Ave Maria - Ambroz Copi

RECORDINGS AT DOUAI ABBEY

  • Organ Music played by Terence Charleston. two cds price £15 each

  • Antonio Soler   Six Concertos for Two Organs played by Gareth Price & Graham Howell price £15

  • Music from Douai Abbey including Roxanna Panufnik  Douai Missa Brevis Lajos Bardos  Missa Quarta, and motets and hymns sung by the Douai Singers directed by Dr John Rowntree, plainsong sung by Douai Schola and organ music played by Terence Charleston price £11.99

  • Anthony Milner (past pupil of Douai School)   Symphony no 1 op 28 & Variations for Orchestra op 14 played by BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lionel Friend. price £10

Available from Douai Abbey Shop.

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