Buxtehude to Boombidah!
About the concert
On 5 February 2022 we joined forces with the Cosine Players and guest soloists Sara Pay and Panaretos Kyriatzidis. Not one of our pieces was sung in English and composers ranged from Mozart, Padilla and Buxtehude to Davies and Hindemtih.
Programme
- Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla — Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
- Stephen Davies — Boombidah!
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Ch’io mi scordi di te
- Dieterich Buxtehude — Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr
- Paul Hindemith — Six Chansons
- Dieterich Buxtehude — Jesu, meines Lebens Leben
- Franz Joseph Haydn — String quartet op 76 no 4 (adagio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Vespers
Performers
Sara Pay
Sara Pay has performed as a soprano concert soloist with several choirs and musical groups. Her oratorio performances include movements from Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Britten’s Spring Symphony, C. P. E. Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, and as a soloist in many Bach Cantatas. She also has sung the rôle of Susanna (Marriage of Figaro, in English) and the Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel). Sara studies singing with Zoe South. An experienced choral singer, Sara is a member of Nonsuch Singers, a versatile chamber choir whose recent highlights include performing Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir at St Peter’s Eaton Square and recording Will Todd’s Mass in Blue for Convivium Records. Sara sang with Hallé Choir, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus and Choir of the 21st Century for several years, performing in concerts throughout the UK, on tour in Europe and New York, and in recordings for the Hallé, Chandos and LSO Live labels.
Panaretos Kyriatzidis
The Cosine Players
Violin
- Cory Ferguson
- Eve Weatherill
Viola
- Anna Moore
- David Griffiths
Cello
- Jane Friend
Chamber organ
- Stephen Davies
The choir
Sopranos
- Kathryn Bartlett
- Jenny Burgess
- Penny Davies
- Anne Greenidge
- Nancy Khan
- Karen Mackintosh
- Katie Mackintosh
- Sue Thompson
Altos
- Ruth Brook
- Fiona Davey
- Natalie Robinson
- Jill Saudek
Tenors
- Jonathan Coulson
- Andy Jackson
- Craig Myers
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- Ralph Barlow
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Peter Thompson
