'VOICES OF SCOTLAND'
CHORAL CONCERT BY CAPELLA NOVA
FRIDAY 4 JULY 8PM ST GILES' CATHEDRAL
To mark the 80th birthday of composer Ronald
Stevenson and to close
the 12th International Triennial Conference on Mediaeval and Renaissance
Scottish
Language and Literature.
Tickets
£10 (concession £7) Queen's Hall Box Office 0131 668 2019
Programme
Haunting plainsong chants for St Columba (from Inchcolm Abbey), and for St Kentigern of Glasgow,
will frame and link
the following works
Elegy
for Colum Cille (Rebecca Rowe, 2000)
setting
Brian Johnstone's verse paraphrase of Dallan Forgaill's poem of c.597 lamenting the death of
St Columba of Iona
'In
convertendo' (Ps.126) a 5 (Patrick Douglas, prebendary of St Giles, c.1550)
'Descendi
in hortum meum' a 4 (Lincluden Collegiate Kirk c.1550)
setting
words from the Song of Songs
'Warldis Vanitie: ane
merroure for Marie Stuart' (Gabriel Jackson, 2001)
setting poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Darnley, Robert Sempill, Mary Queen
of Scots, and
from the Gude and Godlie
Ballatis
- interval -
'Nobilis,
humilis'-
hymn to St Magnus of Orkney (c.1150)
'Si quis
diliget me' a
4 ( David Peebles, 1530) setting
words from St John's Gospel
'Insanientis
gens sapientiae' a 4 (Statius Olthoff, 1585)
a setting
of Ps.19 in the poetic paraphrase by George Buchanan (1506-1582)
‘Vir perfecte' (hymn to St
Andrew from the St Andrews Music Book, c.1200)
'Da tuae
regi Deus aequitatis' (Olthoff )
a setting
of Buchanan's paraphrase of Ps.72
'Ex te
lux oritur dulcis Scotia'
The
Wedding Hymn of Margaret of Scotland and Erik of Norway, 1281
'A
Mediaeval Scots Triptych' (Ronald Stevenson, 1965)
Qwhen Alyssander oure
kynge - Wallace's Lament for the Grahame - Fredom
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