Sun, Moon and Stars

Continuing our 5th Anniversary season with a concert of stunning choral music celebrating the cosmos

Music by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, Bob Chilcott, Morten Lauridsen and others

Conducted by Ian Assersohn with Rachel Threlfall, cello and Jan Assersohn, piano

Full programme:

James MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn

Charles Wood: Hail Gladdening Light

Ian Assersohn: Sun (from Ionian Mass)

Dan Forrest: The Sun Never Says

Ian Assersohn: Winter Sunrise (First performance)

Ian Assersohn: The Golden Apples of the Sun (First performance)

Ola Gjeilo: Northern Lights

Eric Whitacre: Goodnight Moon

INTERVAL

Ēriks Ešenvalds:  Stars

Francisco Capillas: Cui Luna

Susan LaBarr: The Wisdom of the Moon

Morten Lauridsen: Sure on this shining night

Antonín Dvořák: Song to the Moon (from Rusalka)

Ola Gjeilo: Serenity (O magnum mysterium)

Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon

Jacob Narverud: Lunar Lullaby

Elaine Hagenberg: O Love