What’s on in York: The Ebor Singers with Songs of Remembrance at York Minster

19 May 18

19:30

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Couperin: Troisieme Lecon de mecredi saint

Charpentier: Messe de Morts

Purcell: Funeral Sentences

Expressive works by seventeenth and eighteenth century composers are the focus of this concert. To celebrate the 350th anniversary of Francois Couperin’s birth, we include the third of his Lecons de Tenebres, which entertained and moved when they were first heard in Holy Week 1714, with the musical language matching the poignancy of the text and the drama of the liturgy.

Both written in the 1670s, Charpentier’s Messe de Morts (commemorating various obsequies for his patrons the Guise family) and Purcell’s Funeral Sentences (possibly written following the death of his teacher Matthew Locke in 1677), demonstrate the highly expressive influence of Italian music.

Tickets available here or on the night.

For more information please call 01904 557200.

What’s on in York: The Ebor Singers – Dusk Songs

21st Oct 2017

19.30-21.30

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Dusk Songs is an evocative setting of the service of Compline, drawing on different texts, musical influences and vocal techniques. Commissioned by The Ebor Singers in 2006, this special performance will see the choir move around the building, exploring the auditory space of York Minster.

Join us as we journey from the renaissance to the present day, with the commissioned Dusk Songs interspersed with English Tudor polyphony, and hear spaces in the Minster like you have never heard them before!
Our audience will walk alongside us around the building as we sing the components of the programme.

“Dusk Songs is a captivating, enthralling journey which delves deeply into the rich and broad heritage of sacred choral music” – Cross Rhythms

‘Stunning’ – Classic FM

Copies of The Ebor Singers’ recording of Dusk Songs will be available at the concert.

What’s on in York: The Ebor Singers at York Minster

A Baroque Holy Week, by Candlelight

25th Mar 2017

19:30

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Complementing the liturgical season of Lent, The Ebor Singers explore Baroque music from across Europe for Holy Week.

We travel from Italy with Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, a powerful depiction of Mary standing at the cross of Jesus; from France with Charpentier’s telling of Peter’s betrayal of Jesus in Le Reniement de St Pierre and Couperin’s Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres; and from England with Pelham Humfrey’s expressive verse anthem setting of Psalm 22, O Lord my God.

For more information, see: www.eborsingers.org

The concert takes place in the Chapter House.

Tickets £12.00 (£10 Over 65, £5 NUS, U16s free with full paying adult)

What’s on in York: The Ebor Singers – Mystery and Miracle tomorrow (Sat) at York Minster

22 Oct 16

Start: 19:30

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Programme:

JOHN TAVERNER: Mass and motet O Wilhelme

ANON: 15th century York Mass

BRYARS | ROWARTH | MOORE

Following on from the 2016 Minster Mystery Plays, The Ebor Singers explore medieval York, a centre of culture and learning, tracing a path through three centuries of the city’s history. We move from music for the 14th century cycle of Mystery Plays, through to a late 15th century mass that was almost lost during the Reformation when the manuscript was used for binding legers in York Minster, and a 16th century mass by John Taverner honouring St William of York. Works by Gavin Bryars, Ben Rowarth and Philip Moore provide contemporary reflections on York’s history.