2012-2013 Season
Chansons profanes
Friday, November 9, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Celebrating anniversaries of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Jean Françaix (1912-97) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), this concert included some little-known secular French works from the twentieth century that combine beauty, humor and virtuosity
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 — Gabriel Fauré
Un soir de neige (Paul Eluard) — Francis Poulenc
De grandes cuillers de neige
La bonne neige
Bois meutri
La nuit le froid la solitude
Les Djinns, Op. 12 — Gabriel Fauré
Trois Chansons — Maurice Ravel
Nicolette
Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
Ronde
Madrigal, Op. 35 — Gabriel Fauré
Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans — Claude Debussy
Dieu! Qui’il la fait bon regarder
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’este qu’un villain
From Trois poèmes de Paul Valéry — Jean Françaix
Cantique des colonnes
From Les Chansons des roses (Rilke) — Morten Lauridsen
La rose complète
Dirait-on
Choral Holiday: A Night of Snow and Roses
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Old South Church, Boston
For the third annual Choral Holiday, BCE updates the traditional Lessons and Carols service with repertoire both old and new, including Thompson’s Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Judith Weir’s My Guardian Angel, and Jan Sandström’s creative re-imagining of Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming and other songs and readings that complement the program’s theme of snow and roses.
O Come all ye faithful
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening — Randall Thompson
Un soir de neige (Paul Eluard) — Francis Poulenc
De grandes cuillers de neige
La bonne neige
Yver vous n’estes qu’un villain — Claude Debussy
In the bleak midwinter — Harold Darke
See amid the winter’s snow — Trad. (arr. David Willcocks)
Silent night, holy night
There is no rose (from A Ceremony of Carols) — Benjamin Britten
Lo, how a rose is blooming — Michael Praetorius / Jan Sandström
A spotless rose — Herbert Howells
My guardian angel — Judith Weir
There is now rose of such virtue — Anonymous (c. 1420)
There is no rose — John Joubert
The two Nowells — Giles Swayne
Hark the Herald Angels Sing — Trad.
A Shepherd’s Carol — Benjamin Britten
A New Year’s Carol — Benjamin Britten
We wish you a merry Christmas — Arthur Warrell
Deplorations
Friday, March 8, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Reprise Performance: Saturday, June 15, 2013
St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston
The act of deploration, or lament, especially for the death of a loved one, has inspired composers to write some of the most powerfully moving music. BCE performed a reprise of this program as part of the Boston Early Music Fringe Festival in June 2013.
La déploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem — Josquin des Prez
Lamentations of Jeremiah I — Thomas Tallis
Stabat Mater — Giuseppe Tartini
Lamentations of Jeremiah II — Thomas Tallis
When David heard — Thomas Tomkins
When David heard — Eric Whitacre
Spem in alium — Thomas Tallis
Rose Songs
Friday, May 17, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Old South Church, Boston
Flowers are the theme of our spring concert, with special emphasis on the beautiful rose. With music by Rutter, Elgar, and Lauridsen and featuring the Five Flower Songs by Benjamin Britten, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Five flower songs, Op. 47 — Benjamin Britten
To Daffodils
The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
Marsh Flowers
The Evening Primrose
Ballad of Green Broom
Crowned with flowers — William Byrd
Flora gave me fairest flowers — John Wilbye
Lay a garland — Robert Pearsall
There is sweet music — Edward Elgar
Léon (from Path of Miracles)— Joby Talbot
There is a flower — John Rutter
Jesus Christ the apple tree — Elizabeth Poston
There is no rose — Jan Sandstrom
From Chansons des roses — Morten Lauridsen
En une seule fleur
La rose complète
Dirait-on