Prom 63: Choral Day – The Sixteen

Prom 63: Choral Day – The Sixteen

Royal Albert Hall

For the first concert of Proms Choral Day, one of Britain’s best-loved choirs, The Sixteen, returns to the Proms under Harry Christophers for some of the most serene and spiritual choral works written in Victorian England.

Programme

• Hubert Parry




• Coronation Anthem ‘I Was Glad’(6 mins)




• Charles Villiers Stanford




• Three Motets, Op. 38(9 mins)




• Henry Balfour Gardiner




• Evening Hymn(7 mins)




• William Henry Harris




• Faire is the heaven(5 mins)




• John Ireland




• Greater love hath no man(6 mins)




• Charles Villiers Stanford




• Eight Partsongs, Op. 127 – ‘The Guest’(3 mins)




• Eight Partsongs, Op. 127 – ‘When Mary thro’ the garden went’(3 mins)




• Eight Partsongs, Op. 127 – ‘To a Tree’(4 mins)




• Edward Elgar




• Give unto the Lord(8 mins)

Performers

• The Sixteen



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  Simon Johnson

  
  

  organ

  
  


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  Harry Christophers

  
  

  conductor

  
  

Composers

• Hubert Parry




• Charles Villiers Stanford




• Henry Balfour Gardiner




• William Henry Harris




• John Ireland




• Edward Elgar