Emerald Ensemble: Serenade to Music – English Choral Masterworks
$25 & $35
Michael Tippett — Five Spirituals
Michael Tippett — A Child of Our Time
William Henry Harris — Faire is the heaven
William Walton — Where does the uttered music go?
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Serenade to Music
Arnold Bax — Mater ora filium
Benjamin Britten — Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Op. 27
William Henry Harris — Selected works
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Frederick Delius – On Craig Ddu
Michael Tippett – Five Spirituals, from A Child of Our Time
William H. Harris – Faire is the heaven
William Walton – Where does the uttered music go?
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Arnold Bax – Mater ora filium
In the first half of the twentieth century, English composers wrote some of the most richly beloved masterworks in choral history. Centerpieces include Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Shakespearean Serenade to Music, composed for sixteen soloists, and Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, to a text by W.H. Auden. We also include the five spirituals that Michael Tippett extracted from his wartime oratorio A Child of Our Time. The concert also includes masterworks large and small by Arnold Bax, Frederick Delius, William H. Harris, and William Walton. You will hear gentle pastoralism, soft lament, and vigorous acclamation.