Joint concert with Antiphon and Hexham Abbey Choir.

Friday, March 15th, 2024
7:00pm
Hexham Abbey

Tickets £12.50 Available on line via Hexham Abbey box office .

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Doors open 6.30pm – Concert 7pm


ANNIVERSARY VOICES 1350

A Concert of choral music performed by 

Hexham Abbey Choirs and Antiphon

to celebrate the 1350 Anniversary of the founding of Hexham Abbey by St Wilfrid in 674AD 

 

Combined choirs

I was glad when they said unto me                  C H H Parry (1848-1918)

Ave verum corpus                                                 W A Mozart (1716-1791)

 

Antiphon

Sing joyfully                                                William Byrd (1543-1623)

O Lord, the maker of all thing                      William Mundy (c1529-1591)

 

Hexham Abbey choirs

O come, ye servants of the Lord                       Christopher Tye (c1505-1573)

Drop, drop slow tears                                          Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

 

Antiphon

Missa “L’homme armé” a sexti toni                 Josquin des Pres (c1450-1521)

Agnus Dei

 

Combined choirs

Let all mortal flesh keep silence                      Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)

Hail, gladdening Light                                  Charles Wood (1866-1926)

 

Antiphon

How lovely are Thy Dwellings fair                   Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

from ‘German Requiem’

 

Hexham Abbey choirs

Locus iste                                    Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

 

Combined choirs

Blest pair of Sirens                                         C H H Parry (1848-1918)

 

 

Conductors

Michael Haynes and John Roper

Organists

Michael Haynes, John Roper and Paul Rudd