Please join the Sine Nomine Singers for our summer concert on Saturday 6 June at 7.30pm at St George’s Church. We are delighted to be joined by the exceptional young oboist Nathan Ikechukwu Daniel.

Our programme follows the shape of a sacred day: from the morning offices of Mattins and Mass, through to the evening services of Evensong and Compline. We begin and end in stillness, with the serenity of Gregorian chant and the polyphony of the English Renaissance, represented by Byrd and Tallis. At the heart of the day, the programme opens out into a rich sequence of 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century music from across Europe and beyond.

The two halves of the concert are linked by settings of The Lord’s Prayer, a prayer heard throughout the daily round of worship. Verdi’s Padre Nostro offers a rare glimpse of the composer’s sacred choral writing, while Golovanov’s spectacular Otche Nash brings the day to a dramatic climax. We will also sing two of Philip Moore’s haunting settings of prayers by the theologian and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer: music of great inwardness, beauty and moral seriousness.

Alongside the choral music, Nathan Ikechukwu Daniel will perform Britten’s extraordinary Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe, one of the most vivid and imaginative works in the instrument’s repertoire.

We very much hope you will be able to join us.

Donations are invited at the door
Suggested donation: £15; £5 for students and job-seekers.

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Programme

Te Deum — Gregorian chant
Benedictus — William Byrd (1540–1623)
Morning Prayers, from Three Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Philip Moore (b. 1943)
Padre Nostro — Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid:
I. Pan
II. Phaeton
III. Niobe
— Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Nathan Ikechukwu Daniel, oboe

Kyrie, from Cantus Missae — Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901)
Agnus Dei, from Mass in G minor — Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

Magnificat I — Giles Swayne (b. 1946)
Nunc Dimittis — Amy Summers (b. 1996)

Evening Prayers, from Three Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Philip Moore (b. 1943)
Otche Nash — Nikolai Golovanov (1891–1953)

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid:
IV. Bacchus
V. Narcissus
VI. Arethusa
— Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Nathan Ikechukwu Daniel, oboe

Te lucis ante terminum — Thomas Tallis (c.1505–1585)
Salve Regina — Gregorian chant