A concert of mainly madrigal style music from across all ages. The church will be decorated with flowers from the festival and interval drinks will be provided. Proceeds will go to the Church Restoration Fund.
St John Singers are delighted to visit Downton, to sing in the beautiful parish church of St Laurence and raise money for the Organ Fund. With John Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals the centrepiece, this concert also includes English and French madrigals, a selection of spirituals from around the world and (with a nod to the royal wedding) Parry’s celebratory anthem “I was glad” and a glass of festive bubbles!
We look forward to welcoming you!
St John Singers have been invited to join Salisbury Cathedral Choir in Holy Week to sing "Stainer's Crucifixion" and the beautiful, lesser known "The Reproaches" by John Sanders under the Cathedral's Director of Music, David Halls. Timings to be notified.
St John Singers, under the direction of David Coram, will be singing Saturday Evensong, and the Eucharist and Evensong on Sunday, over the weekend of 6/7th January 2018. Music includes Mozart Missa Brevis in D (KV 194), with strings and chamber organ, accompaniment, Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, and the Canticles by Iain Farrington.
Musical Director, Stephen Abbott, will compere and conduct his first concert with St John Singers. We welcome the local harpist, Katie Salomon, as our guest to this very popular, annual event with classic and less well known carols. Wine and Mince Pies will be served during the interval and there is opportunity for the audience to sing few traditional carols, accompanied by organist extraordinaire, David Coram.
Proceeds from the concert will go to our partner charity SSAFA, and we are also running a raffle with a few quality prizes.
Tickets: £15 from Musicroom (5, Catherine Street, Salisbury), Choir Members, or enquire via our Contact Us Page.
St John Singers of Salisbury UK conducted by Ian Wicks
Provisional Programme of choral music to include Brahms, Mozart and Palestrina with organ music by Bach and Mendelssohn played by Ian Wicks from Salisbury Cathedral
Monday Concert 16th October
Wood Hail Gladdening Light*
Palestrina Sicut Cervus and Exultate Deo
Parry My Soul there is a country*
Shephard Never weather beaten sail*
Rachmaninov Ave Maria*
Mozart Ave Verum*
Tippett Five Spirituals
Brahms How lovely is thy dwelling place*
Howells Hymn to St Cecilia
Bach
Mendelsohn tbn ORGAN
St John Singers, under their Musical director Ian Wicks, are delighted to be singing the Eucharist Service of the Anglican Church in Rome. The setting will be Mozart's Missa Brevis in D (KV194) and the anthem will be Palestrina's Sicut Cervus.
St John Singers, conducted by Ian Wicks
Sung in English, this performance is transcribed for four-hand piano in the version especially prepared by Brahms for a performance in London in 1871.
Soloists are Charlotte Ashley (soprano) and Alistair Watson (bass) with the St John Singers Accompanist, David Coram, and Sam Hanson on the piano.
Tickets £12 from Musicroom, Catherine Street, Choir Members, or on the door.
Proceeds will go to Cancer Research UK
Parking at St Martin's:
There is little parking around St Martin’s Church and the easiest, most predictable course of action is to park free in the:
CULVER STREET CAR PARK (SP1 2BQ) http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/parkingtransportandstreets/carparking/findacarpark.htm?ID=71
From there it is a five minute walk to the church on the other side of the ring road. Leave the car park down Culver Street South and take the first left into Payne Hill where there is a pedestrian underpass leading to St Martin’s Church Street.
There is some STREET PARKING on single yellow lines (after 18.00) and resident’s parking (after18.00) in Tollgate Road and Marina Road.
There is limited DISABLED PARKING in front of the Church. If you need a disabled space please contact us through the contact page on this website.
St John Singers with St Thomas's Church Choir will sing their annual Good Friday Service of John Stainer's Crucifixion conducted by our Emeritus Director of Music, John Powell, and accompanied by David Coram.
Entrance Free, with retiring collection.
Programme
SONGS OF SPRINGTIME Ernest John Moeran
Under the Greenwood Tree
The River-God's Song
Spring, the Sweet Spring
Love is a Sickness
Sigh no more, Ladies
Good Wine
To Daffodils
POETRY READING Mark Honan
Trussell Trust Address - Mark Elling
Sweet and low Joseph Barnby
Come Live with me William Sterndale Bennett
***** Interval *****
BIRTHDAY MADRIGALS John Rutter
It was a lover and his lass
Come live with me
My true love hath my heart
When daisies pied
POETRY READING Mark Honan
PIANO DUET David Coram and Ian Wicks
The Fairy Queen - Galop de Concert Sydney Smith
Oh where art thou dreaming Hamish MacCunn
The blue bird Charles Villiers Stanford
The long day closes Arthur Sullivan
