Malvern Concert Club: The Gesualdo Six

Malvern Theatres box office and online sales for this event will close at 8pm on Saturday 8th February.  Tickets will then be available from The Priory, on the day from 2.30pm.

The date of this concert has been brought forward by one week to Sunday 9th February. The Gesualdo Six will be performing at Great Malvern Priory at 3pm on that date and not on the original date of 16th February which has been hitherto advertised. The date given on this website is correct and tickets for this attractive programme will be on sale to the general public from 1 October. Full programme details are:

The Gesualdo Six

Owain Park director
Guy James countertenor
Alex Chance countertenor
Joseph Wicks tenor
Josh Cooter tenor
Michael Craddock baritone
Samuel Mitchell bass

‘The Wishing Tree’: from the roots of choral singing to the flowering of a tradition

Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – 1585)  Miserere nostri

Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613)  Judas mercator pessimus

Veljo Tormis (1930 – 2017)  Lase kiik käia!

Carlo Gesualdo  Tenebrae Factae sunt

Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)  O Ecclesia, occuli tui

Arvo Pärt (b.1935)  Morning Star

Owain Park (b.1993)  Phos hilaron

Christopher Tye (c.1505 – 1572/3)  Ad te clamamus

Carlo Gesualdo  Tristis est anima mea

Thomas Tallis  Loquebantur

Luca Marenzio (c.1553 – 1599)  Potrò viver io più se senza luce

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525 – 1594)  Io son ferito, ahi lasso

Joby Talbot (b.1971)  The Wishing Tree

Sarah Rimkus (b.1990)  My heart is like a singing bird

Alison Willis (b.1971)  The Wind’s Warning

arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)  Bushes and Briars

Gerda Blok-Wilson (b.1955)  O Little Rose, O Dark Rose

Josef Rheinberger (1839 – 1901)  Abendlied