A
Lentern
Concert
Sunday 15th March
at 3.00pm
by Renaissance
PROGRAMME
Exultate Justi
Lodovico Viadana 1560-1627
O nata lux
If ye love me
Thomas Tallis 1505 – 1585
Reading
Call to remembrance
Richard Farrant c1530-1580
Almighty and everlasting God
Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625
Audience – My song is love unknown
Jesu dulcis Memoria
Missa – O Quam Gloriosum
(Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
O vos omnes
Tomás Luis de Victoria 1548-1611
Reading
Lord, let me know mine end
Maurice Greene 1696-1755
Sicut cervus
G P da Palestrina 1525 – 1596
Occuli omnium
God so loved the World
Bob Chilcott
Audience – When I survey
Panis Angelicus
César Franck 1822-1890
Renaissance Singers
The group was established in the early 1970s by Reg Bertin, who was a prominent and well-respected music teacher at Eastbourne Grammar School and a popular organist and choirmaster in the town.
There were initially just 8 singers – two in each voice, which made eight-part a capella singing very interesting.
Under Reg's direction the Renaissance Singers were established as one of the leading choirs in Sussex and have always been in great demand.
We specialise in unaccompanied multi-part harmony. Our repertoire covers a complete range of styles including plainsong and chant, motets, madrigals, folk songs throughout the ages, anthems and modern choral pieces.
When Reg retired, his place was taken by Shirley Barrell, who sang Contralto under Reg's baton and, under her direction, the group grew to 15 singers. Since Shirley's recent and untimely death, the baton has now moved again and is safely in the hands of Paul Collins, who sang bass with the choir and is also organist and choirmaster at St Saviour's.