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Fire and flames have long captured the imagination of writers and composers. Queen’s Choir here presents a programme of dramatic twentieth-century choral works encompassing the ‘immortal fire’ of Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia, the ’flame of fire’ evoked in John Rutter’s extraordinary Hymn to the Creator of Light, and John Tavener’s majestic evocation of William Blake’s Tyger, ‘burning bright’. The centrepiece is Morten Lauridsen’s Madrigali - Six ‘Fire Songs’, settings of sixteenth-century madrigal texts on the theme of ardent love.
PROGRAMME
O Radiant Dawn James MacMillan
Madrigali – Six ‘Fire Songs’ on Italian Renaissance Poems Morten Lauridsen
The Gallant Weaver James MacMillan
The Tyger John Tavener
Hymn to St Cecilia Benjamin Britten
Faire is the heaven William Harris
Hymn to the Creator of Light John Rutter
This performance will run without interval.
Further Information
For more information please email choir@queens.ox.ac.uk or ring the Choir office on 01865 289177