Listen, Time Passes 25th Anniversary
About the concert
To celebrate 25 years of our choir, we were joined on 15 June 2019 by several former members, some of whom travelled from afar (even New Zealand!) to make a huge sound in Parry’s I Was Glad and other items. Here are some audience quotes:
“… a glorious concert… it was sublime…looking forward to the next one…”“…what a concert! The choir sounded great…such a lovely programme with so many of my favourites…”
Programme
- Anton Bruckner — Ave Maria
- William Petter — St Magnus Mass
- Charles Wood — Hail, gladdening light
- Henry Purcell — Hear my prayer, O Lord
- Benjamin Britten — Marsh Flowers from Five Flower Songs
- Francis Poulenc — Hodie Christus Natus Est from 4 motets de Noël
- Maurice Ravel — Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques
- Ralph Vaughan Williams — Gloria from Mass in G Minor
- William H Harris — Faire is the Heav’n
- Charles Villiers Stanford — Coelos ascendit hodie
- Frank Martin — Sanctus & Benedictus from Mass for Double Choir
- E J Moeran — Good Wine from Songs of Springtime
- Olivier Messiaen — O sacrum convivium
- William Byrd — Agnus Dei from 4-part Mass
- Orlando Gibbons — O Clap Your Hands
- Antonio Lotti — Crucifixus
- John Ireland — My True Love Hath My Heart
- John Ireland — The Vain Desire
- Frank Bridge — Adoration
- Frank Bridge — Love Went A-Riding
- Arvo Pärt — Bogoroditse Djevo
- Herbert Howells — I Heard a Voice from Heaven from Requiem
- Gerald Finzi — My spirit sang all day
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Drum Schließ Ich Mich from Komm Jesu Komm
- C Hubert H Parry — I Was Glad
Performers
Jonny Davies
After being Queen’s Chorister and then Head Chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Jonny Davies won a music scholarship to Trinity School, Croydon. During his teenage years he studied violin with John Francis, piano with Nigel Clayton at Croydon Schools Piano Centre and organ with Simon Williams. He also acted as assistant organist at St Mary’s Church, Addington. He then went to Brasenose College, Oxford where he received an Organ Exhibition, and sang with Schola Cantorum and the Oxford Chamber Choir. Since leaving Oxford, Jonny has sung as a lay clerk in Guildford Cathedral, with the Holst Singers conducted by Stephen Layton, and with professional church choirs all over London. He was Director of Music at St Olave’s Church, Hart Street and St Katharine Cree in the City of London, from 2007 until 2015.
From the programme of 4 February 2023.
Stephen Davies
Stephen Davies, a former chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Music Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford, was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Institute to study with the great organist and composer Anton Heiller at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He has since been active both in the field of music education – particularly at St Olave’s School, Orpington, where he was Director of Music for seventeen years – and as an organ recitalist. In this capacity he has given concerts in major venues throughout Europe, in New York and in New Zealand. In 2017 he gave concerts in Estonia, Germany, and Norway, and last year he performed in King’s College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He founded the Sine Nomine Singers in 1994 and conducted this chamber choir for almost 20 years, giving concerts in local venues as well as in Estonia, France and Germany. He was Director of Music here at St George’s from 2002 to 2016.
From the programme of 15 October 2022.