Buckfast

Saturday 20th June, 2015

Buckfast Abbey

A concert to celebrate Counterpoint’s unique connection with Buckfast Abbey since 1987

Counterpoint

with special guest

James Bowman

 

This was our Final Concert at Buckfast Abbey, and celebrated the past 28 years of concerts and services in this wonderful church.

We performed our most popular pieces from our long history.

The choir comprised singers from those many happy years, including our good friend, James Bowman.

Programme:

  • Vox dicentis - Naylor
  • Psalm 130 - Out of the deep
  • James Bowman - O nata lux - Tallis
  • James Bowman - Ave verum - Byrd
  • Bogoroditse Dyevo - Rachmaninov
  • O magnum mysterium - Lauridsen
  • Lux aurumque - Whitacre
  • The Reproaches - Sanders
  • INTERVAL
  • James Bowman & Counterpoint - Drop, drop slow tears - Gibbons
  • James Bowman - Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis - Byrd
  • Funeral Ikos - Tavener
  • Versa est in luctum - Lobo
  • Lux aeterna - Elgar
  • James Bowman - Hide not thou thy face - Farrant
  • James Bowman - Evening Hymn - Purcell
  • Circumdederunt me dolores - Padilla
  • Sleep - Whitacre
  • Encore - Tourdion - anon, French 16th century.