VOCES8

Performers:

VOCES8 Vocalensemble
Savannah Porter, soprano
Eleonora Poignant, soprano
Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto
Barnaby Smith, countertenor / direction
Blake Morgan, tenor
Euan Williamson, tenor
Christopher Moore, baritone
Dominic Carver, bass

programme

»Lead me home«. A celebration of the American choral landscape

William Byrd

Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles (1611))

Virgil Thomson

My shepherd will supply my need (1937)

Caroline Shaw

and the swallow

Morten Lauridsen

O nata lux

Anonymus

My lord, what a morning. Spiritual (Bearbeitung: Harry T. Burleigh)

Steal away. Spiritual (Bearbeitung: David Blackwell)

William Billings

David's lamentation

Bobby McFerrin

The 23rd psalm

Eric Whitacre

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

Pause

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Free as a bird (Bearbeitung: Jim Clements)

Jonathan Dove

In beauty may I walk

Taylor Scott Davis

Effortlessly

Samuel Barber

To be sung on water

Anonymus

Shenandoah. Volkslied aus Amerika (Bearbeitung: Thomas Hewitt Jones)

Richard Rodgers

Bewitched (Pal Joey) (1940)

Billy Strayhorn

Take the »A« Train (Bearbeitung: Jonathan Rathbone) (1941)

Harry Warren

Chattanooga choo choo (Bearbeitung: Jonathan Rathbone)

Cole Porter

I've got you under my skin (Aus dem Film »Born to dance«) (Bearbeitung: Jim Clements) (1936)