Emerald Ensemble – Past Concerts

Gabriel Fauré — Pavane, Op. 50 (version with chorus)
Édouard Lalo — Deux aubades for 10 instruments
Maurice Ravel — Ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose") Suite
Maurice Ravel — Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Lili Boulanger — Sous Bois ("Undergrowth") (orch. Geoffrey Larson)
Lili Boulanger — Hymne au Soleil ("Hymn to the Sun") (orch. Geoffrey Larson)

Carl Nielsen — Selected works ("Danmark, du kornblonde datter," "Sidskensang," "Der er et yndigt Land," "Tre motetter")
Niels Gade — Selected works ("Fünf Gesänge, opus 13")
Bernhard Lewkovitch — Selected works ("Tre madrigali di Torquato Tasso")
Mette Nielsen — Selected works ("Motet")
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen — Selected works ("Eksempler")
Nancy Dalberg — Selected works ("Vandet risler med sagte Lyd")

Karen P. Thomas / Traditional — Deep River
William Byrd — Mass for Five Voices
Gary D. Cannon — O Absalom (world premiere)
Herbert Howells — Requiem

Program includes works by George Frideric Handel, Henry Lawes, Edward Elgar, Thomas Attwood, William Boyce, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Jeremiah Clarke, Henry Purcell, Herbert Howells, and Hubert Parry.

Program includes works by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

A collection of pieces from various Swedish composers that demonstrate why Sweden has long been a cornerstone of the choral tradition.

Antonín Dvořák’s V Přírodě, Op. 63 is the anchor for an evening of music celebrating the natural world around us.

David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, featuring some of Seattle’s finest soloists in a concert that includes new choral works for the full ensemble.

Featuring twentieth-century composers Jean Sibelius, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and more.

Featuring twentieth-century composers Jean Sibelius, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and more.

A journey through some of the music composed for two of England's grandest monarchs.

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

Stay for as long or as brief a period as you wish. Introduce children to fine choral music, even if they struggle to sit still or to be completely silent. This rehearsal will cover all repertoire on our next concert.

Beyond the intellectualism of their construction, Bach's six surviving motets sparkle with the various facets of his passionate personality, from the somber to the ebullient.