Vaughan Williams and the English Hymnal
Saturday 23 February - 3pm

David Owen Norris keyboard
Cantores Michaelis
Keith Davis director
plus celebrity guests and students from the University of Southampton

Ralph Vaughan Williams was the Music Editor of the English Hymnal, first published in 1906 and described in its preface as 'A collection of the best hymns in the English language'. As a tribute to the composer fifty years after his death join David Owen Norris, choir Cantores Michaelis and a raft of special guests to find out more about the immense musical impact which the book has had. You can also discover how its contents help paint a picture of Vaughan Williams's life, his friends and interests. The concert includes performances of many of the book's hymn tunes on an array of instruments including the Turner Sims organ as well as works associated with them including the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis for string orchestra and the Three Preludes.

Hymn Tune Marathon
To complement the concert singers and instrumentalists will be performing every tune in the English Hymnal. Drop in at any time between 8am and 2.30pm on the day and hear tunes from all seasons. Admission is free.

All tickets £5

Hymns Marathon concludes at 2.30. Programme will start at 3pm. Tea in the Interval. Celebrities will drop in during the show and play whichever tune they like.

[Inset = no audience singing. Italic = Cantores. Hymns inset without italic: one verse, organ only]

NB strings set-up during interval. Brass join in at the end of the concert.

152 Come down, O love divine (RVW: Down Ampney)
541 Fierce raged the tempest (RVW: White Gates)
624 Hail thee, Festival Day (RVW: Salva festa dies)

98  Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons: Song 46)
413 Jesu, grant me this I pray (Gibbons: Song 13)

Bach Chorale Prelude Arrangement for Harriet Cohen (solo piano)

562 O God of earth and altar (Folksong: Kings Lynn – words by Chesterton)

303 Author of life divine (Edwards: Lovely)
Organ Hymn Tune Prelude Rhosymedre (solo organ)

196 For all thy saints (Milgrove: Mt Ephraim)
The Choirmaster’s Burial – Benjamin Britten

402 He who would valiant be (Folksong: Monks Gate – words by Bunyan)

INTERVAL

92 When, rising from the bed of death (Tallis: Third Mode Melody)
Tallis Fantasy for strings

App 45
107 When I survey (Rockingham – Webbe’s 1820 harmonies) words: Watts

25 In the bleak midwinter (Holst: Cranham)
638 Stalham – EJ Moeran
587 All things bright & beautiful (Royal Oak – folksong harmonised by Martin Shaw)

RVW
273 Saviour, again to thy dear name (Magda)
368 At the name of Jesus (King’s Weston)
524 God be with you till we meet again (Randolph)
641 For all the Saints (RVW: Sine nomine) with organ and brass accompaniment

Tallis
267 Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tallis’ (sic) Canon)