The Elysian Singers – Songs & Canciones with Coro de Cámara Ainur – 7:30pm
The Elysian Singers are delighted to welcome Coro de Cámara Ainur, from Gran Canaria, for a joint concert celebrating the glories of Spanish and British choral music. Coro Ainur will serve up a selection of tapas from the Spanish renaissance and from regions of Spain, together with more modern classics from Cuba and Latin America. The Elysians in turn will present classic English settings of Shakespeare and in the madrigal tradition, before taking us on a tour of the four nations of the UK. The two choirs will come together for the double-choir Missa Ave Regina Caelorum by Spain’s greatest renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Javier Busto’s ‘Ametsetan’, a modern classic from the Basque Country.
Victoria: Missa Ave Regina
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Bennet: All creatures now are merry minded
Pearsall: Lay a garland
Rutter: It was a lover and his lass
Arañés: Chacona
Encina: Más vale trocar
Anon C17: Seguidillas en Eco
Oltra: Eco
Eduardo Purriños: El Baile del vivo
Anonymous, arr. Julio Dominguez: Si la nieve resbala
Grainger (arr.): Irish Tune from County Derry
Holst: Green Grass
Delius: On Craig Ddu
Voces8 (arr.): A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Matamoros: Juramento
P.L. Ferrer: El Almuercero
Beatriz Corona: Corazón Coraza
Trad arr. Rob Dietz: Era Oscuro
Trad. arr. Dante Andreo: Tres Cantos Andinos
Piazzolla: La muerte del Ángel
Granda: Fina Estampa
Javier Busto: Ametsetan
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