Reid Chamber Concert

Programme

I.  Now is the month of maying ... Thomas Morley
    What saith my dainty darling?  ... Morley
    Weep no more, thou sorry boy ... Thomas Tomkins (part I)
    Yet again, as soon revived joys as much as late he grieved ... Tomkins (part II)
    On the plains, fairy trains were a-trending measures ... Thomas Weelkes

II. Two Motets from "Cantiones Sacrae" (1625) ... Heinrich Schütz
    (a)  Part I
     Verba mea auribus percipe, Domine.
     Intellige clamorem meum. 
     Intende voci orationis meae, Rex meus et Deus meus.

        Part II
     Quoniam ad te clamabo, Domine.
     Mane exaudies vocem meam.
     Mane astabo tibi, et vidibo. (Psalm V)

    (b)  Cantate Domino canticum novum.
          Laus ejus in ecclesia sanctorum.
          Laetetur Israel in eo, qui fecit eum :
          et filiae Syon exultent in rege suo.
          Laudent nomen ejus in tympano et choro :
          in psalterio psallant ei.

III. Missa "Assumpta est Maria" ... Palestrina

Interval

IV.  Three Shakespeare Songs (1951) ... R. Vaughan Williams
    (a) Full fathom five thy father lies ... (The Tempest: Act I, Scene 2)
    (b) The cloud capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces ... (The Tempest: Act IV, Scene 2)
    (c) Over hill, over dale ... (Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II., Scene 1)

 V.  Two Folk Songs
     (a) Ca' the yowes ... arr. R. Vaughan Williams
     (b) Bobby Shaftoe ... arr. W. Gillies Whittaker