The Rock and the Key - Mass for the Feast of St. Calixtus
Palestrina, Hugill, Stravinsky, Josquin, Bruckner and Stanford,
with music for solo clarinet played by Peter Cigleris
Saturday 13 October 2012, 7.30pm at St Faith's Church, London SE24
as part of the Herne Hill Music Festival
We are pleased to announce that clarinettist, Peter Cigleris, will be playing Malcolm Arnold's Fantasy for B Flat clarinet, Op 87, Anton Stadler's Caprice No. 2, Igor Stravinsky's Three Pieces and Paul Harvey's Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin.
The FifteenB Consort (Rowena Wells, Alison Cross, Sally Prime, Robert Hugill, Katie Boot, John McLeod and Colin Symes) and clarinettist Peter Cigleris present their programme The Rock and the Key on Saturday 13th October 2012 at St. Faith's Church, Red Post Hill, London, SE24 9JQ as part of the Herne Hill Music Festival. Tickets price £8 (concessions £5) are available on the door or in advance on-line (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/177477)
14 October is the Feast of St. Calixtus, an early pope, so our programme is structured like a mass with the Propers for that feast and Palestrina’s glorious Missa tu es Petrus based on his motet Tu es Petrus (Thou art Peter). We will be singing the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and AgnusDei from the mass, with the Latin Credo by Stravinsky.
The choral music will be interspersed with music for unaccompanied clarinet, including Stravinsky’s Three Pieces. To complement this, the vocal ensemble will be singing all three of Stravinsky’s Latin Motets (Ave Maria, Pater Noster and Credo)
The Propers are sung in plainchant, but include William Byrd’s Sacerdotes Domini setting a text related to the Introit, Sacerdotes Dei. And we will be using Bruckner’s male-voice setting of the Gradual, Inveni David.
Stanford’s 6-part motet Beati quorum via forms our Offertory motet, and we will also include Robert Hugill’s 5-part O Salutaris Hostia, setting a text which frequently used to be sung at the elevation. We conclude with a group of Marian motets by Robert Hugill, Josquin and Stravinsky.
