As darkness approaches, take your glass of wine, and let the mesmeric music of the Chantry Quire enfold you, with madrigals (Draw on Sweet Night – Wilbye), guitar and violin, moving through close harmony (A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square) towards This Shining Night (Lauridsen), finally lulling you to Sleep (Whitacre).
With Peter Allwood and violin & guitar duo Niccolò: – Andrew Wickens violin, Tom Jeffers guitar
Instrumental music by MacDowell and Satie.
Sure on this shining night Morten Lauridsen (1943 – )
Sweet Suffolk owl Thomas Vautour (fl.1619)
Toutes les Nuictz Clément Janequin (c1485-1558)
Greensleeves Trad. arr. Luis Fleury (1878 -1926)
Dance no.12 – La Tersicore del Nord Maura Giuliani (1781-1829)
Calme des nuits Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
The Evening Primrose Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
To a Wild Rose Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Abendlied Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)
The long day closes Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Love Song op.41 John W Duarte (1919-2004)
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square Sherwin arr. Christopher Mabley
Cantabile Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Deep Purple de Rose arr. Carter & Blackwell
Gnossienne no.3 Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Draw on Sweet Night John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Sleep Eric Whitacre (1970-)
Refreshments from 8pm. Music from 8.30pm.
Part of the Festival of Chichester.