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Sung by the Temple Singers

Introit: If ye love me (Tallis)
Responses: Rose 
Psalm: I was glad (Parry) 
Canticles: Stanford in G 
Anthem: Zadok the priest (Handel)
Organ: Toccata (Widor, Symphonie no 5)

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

Organ prelude: Prelude in A minor BWV543 (Bach)
Introit: God be in my head (Rutter) 
Psalm 72 vv 1-8 (Walmisley) 
Te Deum: (Britten in C) 
Jubilate: (Walton) 
Anthem: All wisdom cometh from the Lord (Moore) 
Organ voluntary: Fugue in A minor BWV543 (Bach)

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Sung by the Temple Singers

Organ prelude: Prelude in E minor BWV 548 (Bach)
Introit: Nolo mortem peccatoris (Morley) 
Responses: Byrd 
Psalm: Miserere mei (Allegri)
Canticles: Fauxbourdon service (Byrd)
Anthem: Emendemus in melius (Byrd) 
Organ voluntary: Fugue in E minor BWV 548 (Bach)

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Hamish McLaren (countertenor)

Ana Beard Fernández (soprano)

Matthew Jorysz (piano)

The vivid, metaphysical poetry of John Donne is an endless source of inspiration to composers. Tonight's recital centres on the world premiere of Things Invisible to See, a new cycle of Donne settings by Michael Berkeley. Commissioned by countertenor Hamish McLaren and performed with pianist Matthew Jorysz, the work explores themes of love, longing and mortality. Soprano Ana Beard Fernández joins them for selected songs by Shostakovich and Purcell, in a programme that traces powerful emotional threads across centuries and continents.

Purcell: If Music be the Food of Love (3rd version - Britten realisation)

Michael Berkeley: Things Invisible to See
-Go and Catch a Falling Star
-The Sun Rising
-John Donne; His Farewell Fancy
-Break of Day
-The Message

Shostakovich: Spanish Songs, Op 100
-Little Stars

Purcell/Britten: I Take no Pleasure
Britten: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Purcell/Britten: Lord, What is Man?

Short interval - 5 minutes

Rubinstein: two Persian Songs (from Op 34) 

Purcell/Britten: I attempt from love’s sickness to fly

Shostakovich Spanish Songs, Op 100
-Farewell Granada!
-The first meeting
-Ronda
-The dark-eyed girl
-Dream (Barcarolle)

Purcell/Britten: Lost is my Quiet

Duration: 70 minutes (no interval)

There will be a complimentary drinks reception following the concert.

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Sung by the London Welsh Male Voice Choir

Free as part of the entrance fee.

Said service according to the Book of Common Prayer

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

Introit: Call to remembrance (Farrant) 
Responses: Tomkins 
Psalm: 74 (1-12) (Battishill) 
First canticle: Lamentations (Tallis) 
Second canticle: Salvator mundi (Tallis) 
Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end (Greene) 

Sung the Temple Church Choir and the Choir of Norwich Cathedral

Introit: Hear my prayer (Purcell) 
Responses: Rose 
Canticles: Stanford in C 
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)

Said service according to the Book of Common Prayer.

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street.

The Temple Singers

The Temple Players

Conductor: Thomas Allery

J.S. Bach: St John Passion, BWV245

In this extraordinary and moving work, Bach sets the Passion of Christ to music as the story is told in the Gospel of John. He first performed the piece at Vespers on Good Friday in Leipzig. It was the first Passion music he had written in his role as Cantor.

This performance is given by the Temple Singers and Temple Players, whose soloists, chorus and orchestra are hand-picked from the best exponents of London's Baroque Music scene. Some of the solo writing is among the most beautiful Bach ever wrote, and the work is book-ended by two monumental choruses.

This performance is generously sponsored by Guy Fetherstonhaugh KC.

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