St John's, Smith Square, London SW1
Saturday 26 February 2000
Music of many voices
Conductor: Robert Hollingworth
A concert to celebrate the fortieth birthday of the Elysian Singers' founder, Matthew Greenall.
Tallis: Spem in alium (40-part)
Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem (40-part)
Gesualdo: Three motets
Monteverdi: Cantate domino & Adoramus te
Weelkes: Service for seven voices
Byrd: Easter Propers
Vittoria: Magnificat (12 parts)
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St Andrew's Church, St Andrew's Lane, Holborn, London EC4
Saturday 11 December 1999
Music from Countries Old and New
with the Australian Voices
A rare opportunity for British and Australian choirs to sing together, with a programme of late 20th century choral works from two distant countries.
Australian Voices
Christmas carols and music by Stephen Leek
and other contemporary Australian Composers
Elysian Singers
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
Diana Burrell: Christo paremus cantica
Howard Skempton: To Bethlehem did they go
Palestrina: Canite tuba in Sion
Guerrero: Pastores loquebantur
Andrea Gabrieli: Quem vidistis pastores
Warlock: Bethlehem Down & Benedicamus Domino
Britten: Hymn to the virgin 
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York Minster
Saturday 23 October 1999
York Late Music Festival opening concert
Taverner: Dum Transisset
Arvo Pärt: Magnificat
Judith Weir: Love bade me welcome
Geoffrey Burgon: The First World
Diana Burrell: Ave Verum Corpus
Jeffrey Lewis: Recordatio (World premiere)
Tallis: Videte miraculum
Byrd: Laudibus in Sanctis
Tippett: Plebs Angelicus
Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus
Gibbons: Hosanna to the son of David
Gibbons: O Lord, in thy wrath
Andrzej Panufnik: Song to the Virgin Mary
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St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London W1
Saturday 17 July 1999
Summer songs
Britten: Antiphon
Britten: Hymn to St Columba
Britten: Hymn to St Peter
Howells: Take him earth for cherishing
Howells: Salve Regina
Howells: O salutaris Hostia
Lennox Berkeley: Three motets
Peter Maxwell Davies: Hallelujah! The Lord God Almichtie
Andrzej Panufnik: Song to the Virgin Mary
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St John's, Smith Square, London SW1
Saturday 15 May 1999
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Purcell: My heart is inditing and other verse anthems
with the City of London Chamber Players.
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Purcell: My heart is inditing
Purcell: O God, thou hast cast us out
Purcell: O Lord God of Hosts
Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences
Purcell: Let mine eyes run down with tears
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St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London W1
Saturday 27 March 1999
Northern Lights
Linking music from four countries of the Baltic: Finland, Estonia, Russia, and Denmark.
Sibelius: Rakastava
Arvo Pärt: Magnificat
Per Nørgård: Wie ein Kind
Rachmaninov: Panteley the Healer
Veljo Tormis: Karelian Destiny
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Gulbenkian Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Saturday 23 January 1999
Workshop & concert
A workshop and concert for Northern Stage, the North of England's largest professional theatre company. Workshop based on Howard Skempton's The Flight of Song.
Giovanni Gabrieli: Lieto Godea
Judith Weir: Love Bade me Welcome
Thea Musgrave: The Subway Piranhas
Howard Skempton: The Flight of Song
Henryk Gorecki: My Vistula, Grey Vistula
John Tavener: Eonia
Josquin: Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi
Tallis: Missa Puer Nobis Natus Est
Andrew Hugill: La Nourriture
Peter Maxwell Davies: Corpus Christi with Cat and Mouse
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St Cyprians Church, Clarence Gate, London NW1
Saturday 31 October 1998
Exequien
A programme dominated by funerary music, but that need not make it an unduly miserable occasion!
JS Bach: Der Geist Hilft
JS Bach: Komm Jesu Komm
Schütz: Musicalishe Exequien
Rossi: Respice cora
Monteverdi: Ego flos campi
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St James, Piccadilly, London SW1
Wednesday 22 April 1998
Royal Academy of Arts
Private concert of John Tavener's music for Royal Academy of Arts' private viewing of an exhibition of Russian icons in the presence of composer. Broadcast by Classic FM and by over 200 public service broadcast stations across the USA.
Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God
Tavener: Hymn to the Dormition of the Mother of God
Tavener: Svyati (with Steven Isserlis)
Tavener: Akhmatova Songs (Patricia Rozario & Steven Isserlis)
Tavener: Song for Athene
Tavener: Lament of the Mother of God (with Patricia Rozario)
Tavener: Annunciation
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