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Westminster Cathedral Choir London, England

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:30 PM

Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Westminster Cathedral Choir is represented in the U.S.A. by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.www.concertorganists.com

PLEASE TURN OFF ALARMS, PAGERS, AND CELL PHONES. NO PHOTOGRAPHY, AUDIO OR VIDEO TAPING PERMITTED.Program subject to change.

Westminster Cathedral Choir, LondonMartin Baker, Master of Music

Peter Stevens, organ (Please withhold applause until the completion of each half of the program)

Program

Ingrediente Domino George Malcolm 1917-1997

As the Lord was entering the holy city, the children of the Hebrews, proclaiming the resurrection of life and carrying palm branches, cried: Hosanna in the highest! When the people heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem, they went to meet him carrying palm branches.

Ingrediente Domino in sanctam civitatem, Hebræorum pueri

resurrectionem vitæ pronuntiantes, cum ramis palmarum, hosanna, clamabant, in excelsis.

Cumque audisset populus, quod Iesus veniret Ierosolymam, exierunt obviam ei, cum ramis palmarum.

Eram quasi Agnus Tomás Luis de Victoria1548-1611

I was like an innocent lamb; I was led to be sacrificed and I knew it not: my enemies conspired against me, saying: come, let us put wood into his bread, and root him out of the land of the living. All my enemies contrived mischief against me, they uttered evil speech against me, saying: come, let us put wood into his bread, and root him out of the land of the living.

Eram quasi agnus innocens: ductus sum ad immolandum, et nesciebam:

consilium fecerunt inimici mei adversum me, dicentes: venite, mittamus lignum in panem eius

et eradamus eum de terra viventium. Omnes inimici mei adversum me cogitabant mala mihi: verbum iniquum mandaverunt adversum me, dicentes:

venite, mittamus lignum in panem eius et eradamus eum de terra viventium.

Iesum tradidit impius James MacMillanb. 1959

An impious man betrayed Jesus to the chief priests and elders of the people: but Peter followed him from afar to see the end. And they led him to Caiaphas, the high-priest, where the scribes and Pharisees had met together. But Peter followed him from afar to see the end.

Iesum tradidit impius summis principibus sacerdotum, et senioribus populi: Petrus autem sequebatur eum a longe,

ut videret finem. Adduxerunt autem eum ad Caipham principem sacerdotum, ubi scribæ et pharisæi convenerant.

Petrus autem sequebatur eum a longe, ut videret finem.

Recessit pastor noster Tomás Luis de VictoriaOur shepherd, the source of living water, has departed. At his passing the sun was darkened, for he who held the first man captive is now taken captive himself. Today our Saviour has shattered the bars and burst the gates of death. He has torn down the barricades of hell and overthrown the power of Satan.

Recessit pastor noster, fons aquæ vivæ, ad cuius transitum sol obscuratus est:

Nam et ille captus est, qui captivum tenebat primum hominem:

hodie portas mortis et seras pariter Salvator noster disrupit.

Destruxit quidem claustra inferni, et subvertit potentias diaboli.

INTERMISSION

Our shepherd, the source of living water, has departed. At his passing the sun was darkened, for he who held the first man captive is now taken captive himself. Today our Saviour has shattered the bars and burst the gates of death. He has torn down the barricades of hell and overthrown the power of Satan.

O vos omnes Pablo Casals1876-1973

O all you people who pass by, behold and see whether there is any sorrow like my sorrow. All peoples, behold and see my sorrow.

O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, attendite, et videte: si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.

Attendite universi populi et videte dolorem meum.

Christus vincit James MacMillanChrist conquers, Christ is King, Christ is Lord of all. Alleluia!

Christus vincit, Christus regnat,

Christus imperat. Alleluia.

Victimæ paschali arr. Andrew Reid[The lines in brackets are played on the Organ] b. 1971

Christians, to the Paschal victim offer a sacrifice of praise. The Lamb has ransomed his sheep; the innocent Christ has reconciled sinners with the Father. [Death and life confronted each other in a prodigious battle; the Prince of life who died, now lives and reigns.] ‘Tell us, Mary: say what you saw on the way.’ [‘The tomb the Living did enclose; I saw Christ’s glory as he rose!] The angels there attesting, shroud with grave-clothes resting. [Christ, my hope, has risen: he goes before you into Galilee.’] We know that Christ is truly risen from the dead; O victorious King, have mercy on us.

Victimæ paschali laudes immolent Christiani. Agnus redemit oves:

Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores. [Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando:

dux vitæ mortuus, regnat vivus.] Dic nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via?

[Sepulchrum Christi viventis: et gloriam vidi resurgentis.]

Angelicos testes, sudarium et vestes.

[Surrexit Christus spes mea: præcedet suos in Galileam.]

Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere: tu nobis victor Rex, miserere.

Dic nobis Maria Giovanni Bassano1558-1617

Tell us, Mary: say what you saw on the way. The tomb the Living did enclose; I saw Christ’s glory as he rose! The angels there attesting, shroud with grave-clothes resting. Christ, my hope, has risen: he goes before you into Galilee, alleluia.

Dic nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via? Sepulchrum Christi viventis,

et gloriam vidi resurgentis, angelicos testes,

sudarium et vestes. Surrexit Christus spes mea,

præcedet vos in Galileam, alleluia.

Ave virgo sanctissima Francisco Guerrero1528-1599

Hail, holy Virgin, most blessed Mother of God, bright star of the sea. Hail, ever glorious, precious pearl, beautiful as the lily, excelling and giving perfume like the rose.

Ave Virgo sanctissima, Dei Mater piissima, maris stella clarissima.

Salve, semper gloriosa, margarita pretiosa, sicut lilium formosa, nitens, olens velut rosa.

PHOTO BY SIMON TOTTMAN

I saw her, beautiful as a dove, ascending above the streams of water. Her garments were fragrant with her priceless scent. As in spring days, she was surrounded with flowers of roses and lily of the valley. Who is she who goes up through the desert like a shaft of scented smoke from the burning of myrrh and incense?

Vidi speciosam sicut columbam, ascendentem desuper rivos aquarum,

cuius inæstimabilis odor erat nimis in vestimentis eius.

Et sicut dies verni circumdabant eam flores

rosarum et lilia convallium. Quæ est ista,

quæ ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi

ex aromatibus myrrhæ et thuris?

Vidi speciosam Tomás Luis de Victoria

Ave verum corpus Colin Mawbyb. 1936

Hail, true body, born of the Virgin Mary; which truly suffered, offered on a cross for mankind; whose pierced side flowed with water and with blood: be for us a foretaste in the trial of death. O sweet, gracious Jesus, son of Mary.

Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine: vere passum immolatum in cruce pro homine:

cuius latus perforatum, fluxit aqua et sanguine; Esto nobis prægustatum mortis in examine. O Jesu dulcis! O Jesu pie! O Jesu Fili Mariæ.

Great is the Lord Edward Elgar1857-1934

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness; beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo! the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together; they saw, then were they amazed; they were dismayed, they hasted away; trembling took hold of them there, pain as of a woman in travail, as with the east wind that breaketh the ships of Tarshish. As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever, for ever. We have thought on thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. As is thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth; thy right hand is full of righteousness: we have thought on thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.Let mount Sion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice. Let mount Sion be glad, because of thy judgements; walk about Sion and go round about her, tell the towers thereof, mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide even unto death: for this God is our God. Amen.

PHOTO BY SIMON TOTTMAN

Westminster Cathedral Choir, oCtober 2011 U.s. toUr personnel

CHORISTERS

Trebles Alexander Hopkins - Head Chorister Arthur Campbell - Deputy Head Chorister

Henry Kirk Thomas Dean Louis Hockton Benedict McGonigal Louis de Satgé Benedict Turner-Berry Benjamin Wootton Peter CostelloNicolas Garcia-Peguinho Lennie McShane Corran Stewart Geore Wignall

Alto Thomas Auger Thomas Picceri James Harding Liam Gray

GENTLEMAN

Counter-TenorDavid Allsopp Stephen Burrows

TenorJonathan Bungard Nicholas Keay David Knight John McMunn

BassMichael Bundy William Gaunt Stephen Kennedy Reuben Thomas

STAFFMatron, Anne Conway Headmaster, Neil McLaughlan Housemaster, Robert O’Brien Music Administrator, Aoife Daly Tour Manager, John McElliott

Born in Manchester in 1967, Martin Baker studied at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School, Chetham’s School of Music and Downing College, Cambridge, then held positions at London’s Westminster and St Paul’s Cathedrals before being appointed to Westminster Abbey at the age of 24. During his eight years at the Abbey, initially as Sub-Organist and subsequently as Acting Organist and Master of the Choristers, his performances on broadcasts and recordings with the Abbey Choir received wide critical acclaim.

Martin Baker is recognized as a dynamic choral conductor. Since his appointment to Westminster Cathedral as Master of Music in 2000, the choir has maintained its high profile both in the Roman Catholic Church and in the musical world in general. He has commissioned and directed the choir in the premieres of a number of new choral masses, including works by composers such as James MacMillan, Peter Maxwell Davies, Judith Bingham and John Tavener. The choir has continued its series of acclaimed recordings on the Hyperion label, the most recent releases being recordings of the service of Vespers of the Nativity, the Palestrina Lamentations and a sequence of music from Advent to Epiphany featuring music written specially for the choir. Forthcoming releases include two Palestrina Masses, Missa Te Deum laudamus and Missa Tu es Petrus. Under his direction the choir has given concerts regularly in the UK, participating in many prestigious festivals such as South Bank’s Messiaen and Maxwell Davies celebrations, and toured in the USA, Hungary, Germany, Belgium, Norway and Italy. In 2005 Martin Baker was invited to address the Congregation for Divine Worship at the Vatican on the Liturgical Role of the Choir. In 2006 he

founded the Conference of Catholic Directors of Music, an association which brings together the leading catholic cathedral and church musicians in the UK and Ireland, and which aims to promote and foster quality of music in Roman Catholic worship. In November 2009 he attended a meeting of Pope Benedict and a select group of artists from all over the world in the Sistine Chapel, to mark the tenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s Letter to Artists.

As an organist, Martin Baker is much in demand all over the world. Performing regularly in the UK, he has recently given concerts in France, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, the USA, and Russia. The winner of the St Alban’s Improvisation competition in 1997, improvisation features regularly in his recital programs.

martin baker, master of mUsiC, Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral Choir is acclaimed as one of the world’s great choirs. Since its foundation in 1903 it has occupied a unique and enviable position at the forefront of English church music, not least because of the ground-breaking work of its first Master of Music, Richard Terry, who revived the great works of the English and continental Renaissance composers. The choir’s fame grew under Terry as it presented this forgotten music, revolutionizing attitudes to the repertoire. Innovation continued under George Malcolm who pioneered the development of the choir’s sound along continental lines, resulting in a choir that was truly revolutionary in both what and how it sang. The choir continues these traditions under its present Master of Music, Martin Baker, and it remains the only Catholic Cathedral choir in the world to sing daily Mass and Vespers. More recent holders of the post have included Colin Mawby, Stephen Cleobury, David Hill and James O’Donnell.

The choir’s reputation is ever-expanding and it continues to reach new audiences through its series of acclaimed recordings on the Hyperion label, the two most recent being the Palestrina Lamentations and a sequence of music from Advent to Epiphany featuring music written specially for the choir. In 1998 the choir was awarded the Gramophone Awards for “Best Choral Recording of the Year” and “Record of the Year” for the performance of Frank Martin’s Messe and Pizzetti’s Requiem.

The choir has a history of commissioning and performing new music, famous examples being Britten’s Missa brevis for boys’ voices, the Mass in G minor by Vaughan Williams and compositions by Wood, Holst and Howells. Within the last decade the choir has commissioned new Masses from James MacMillan, Peter Maxwell Davies, Judith Bingham, John Tavener, Matthew Martin and Stephen Hough, all of which were first performed in the context of the regular liturgies at Westminster Cathedral.

Westminster Cathedral Choir features frequently on radio and television. When its busy liturgical schedule permits it takes its music further afield. In addition to regular concerts around the UK, recent tours have included Hungary, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy and the USA.

Westminster Cathedral Choir, london biography

peter stevens, assistant master of mUsiC, Westminster Cathedral

Peter Stevens was born in Bury, Lancashire, in 1987. He spent his sixth form years at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, where in his final year he also held the Junior Organ Scholarship at Manchester Cathedral. On leaving school, he spent a year as Organ Scholar at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he played for services at which members of the Royal Family were present, including the service to mark HM The Queen’s 80th birthday.

Peter spent four years as Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, accompanying the famous Chapel Choir in their daily services, broadcasts and recordings, as well as studying for BA and MusB degrees. He played three times for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast live on Christmas Eve to a worldwide audience of millions. After graduating, Peter moved to Westminster Cathedral as Organ Scholar, before being appointed Assistant Master of Music in January 2011. In addition to working with the Cathedral Choir, he organises and gives many of the Cathedral’s organ recitals. Since summer 2010, Peter has been Organist of the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy. His organ teachers have included Thomas Trotter, Colin Walsh and David Briggs.

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