Choral Summer School Repertoire

Welcome to your Music Pack!

This year’s repertoire offers a wide range of styles and periods, from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

Three Renaissance motets by Phillips, Lassus and Palestrina honour women from the New Testament, and include Palestrina’s monumental double-choir setting of the Stabat mater. We have two contemporary settings of the canticles, both associated with Cambridge colleges – Joanna Forbes L’Estrange’s service for King’s and a setting by Sally Beamish commissioned by our artistic director Edward Wickham for St Catharine’s.

And then we offer the not-so-guilty pleasure of two ‘bangers’ from the Anglican choral repertoire: Balfour Gardiner’s mighty Evening Hymn, and Wood’s exuberant Hail gladdening light.

Over the course of the week we will work on a core repertoire of sacred works for our daily Evensong and Compline services. In addition, we will be selecting works for smaller consorts from the madrigal, part-song and close harmony repertories for more informal music-making sessions.