Music for all Seasons
(The Christian Year from Advent to Trinity)

Sunday 27 April 2014 St Machar's Cathedral 7:45 pm

Aberdeen Bach Choir
Musical Director Peter Parfitt

Organist: Simon Niemiński

This concert took a journey through the main seasons of the Christian year, beginning with Advent and ending with Trinity.

A significant piece of sacred music from each season was presented and the programme included Bach’s great Whitsuntide anthem for double choir Der Geist Hilft, Herbert Howells’ Passiontide motet Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing, Patrick Gowers’ Ascensiontide anthem Viri Galilaei, and music by Palestrina, Taverner, Wesley, Stainer and Sweelinck

The choir, under Musical Director Peter Parfitt, was accompanied by Simon Niemiński, the gifted virtuoso organist from St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral in Edinburgh, who also played organ solos by Bach and Messiaen.

Remember Now Thy Creator - Charles Steggall
Ave Maria - Robert Parsons
Hodie Christus natus est - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Choral Prelude 'In dulci jubilo' BWV 751 - Johann Sebastian Bach (organ solo)
Surge, illuminare Jerusalem (from Motets Book 3) - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Christus factus est - Anton Bruckner
Take him, earth, for cherishing - Herbert Howells
Dum transisset Sabbatum - John Taverner
Blessed be the God and Father - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Transports de Joie - Olivier Messiaen (organ solo)
Viri Galilaei - Patrick Gowers
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf BWV 226 - Johann Sebastian Bach
I saw the Lord - Sir John Stainer