Chamber Choir Ireland: QUARTET
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Chamber Choir Ireland visit Valentia Island for a concert of light-hearted early music, contemporary Irish works, and favourite partsongs.
About this event
A quartet of singers from Chamber Choir Ireland visit Valentia Island for a concert of light-hearted early music, contemporary Irish works, and favourite partsongs—full to the brim with birdsong, cheerful foresters, garlands, and woodland nymphs.
Featuring works by Clément Janequin, Thomas Morley, Palestrina, Rhona Clarke, Stephen McNeff, Eoghan Desmond, George Macfarren, and Henry Bishop.
Event programme
Clément Janequin: Chant des Oiseaux
John Wilbye: Adieu sweet Amaryllis
Thomas Morley: In nets of golden wires
Anon. (Spanish): La tricotea
Palestrina: Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes
Palestrina: Sitivit anima mea
Rhona Clarke: ‘Dear Santa’ (from A Bit of Nonsense)
Stephen McNeff: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Eoghan Desmond: An Gleann Mór (New work)
George Macfarren: Orpheus with his lute
William Sterndale Bennett: God is a spirit
Henry Bishop: Foresters sound the cheerful horn
Featured performers
Chamber Choir Ireland
Selected members of the ensemble