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St Barnabas Church
Ranmore Common Road
Ranmore
Surrey
RH5 6SP
England
Tickets
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Booking line: 020 8399 2714
Book Tickets
Programme
Thomas Tallis – Te lucis ante terminum
Traditional English – The Keel Row (arr. John Byrt)
Thomas Vautor – Sweet Suffolk Owl
Robert Lucas Pearsall – Lay a Garland
Amy Summers – Nunc Dimittis
Charles Wood – Hail, Gladdening Light
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – Abendlied, Op.69 no.3
Tomás Luis De Victoria – Alma Redemptoris Mater for 8 voices
William Mundy – O Lord the maker of all thing
Max Reger – Nachtlied, Op.138
Performers
Patrick Allies – Conductor
Programme Note
What could be more idyllic than relaxing in the picturesque English countryside, on a warm balmy summer’s evening, with beautiful song drifting through the air? The Ripieno choir brings a relaxed end to our summer season with an evening dedicated to enjoying the twilight hour at the beautiful St Barnabas Church, Ranmore (the “cathedral in the woods”). In their final outing with the choir, both our senior Apprentice Conductors – Elinor Thomas and Jason Fan – will take to the podium to conduct the choir. We start with a short recital in the church with pieces such as Tallis’ Te lucis ante terminum
(“Before the ending of the light”) and Rheinberger’s sublime Abendlied (Evening Song) epitomising dusk and nightfall. And we present a stunning setting of the canticle of peaceful release, Nunc dimittis, by the young British composer, Amy Summers.
This will be followed by Compline, the final Christian liturgy of the day, which marks the
completion of the waking day.
Nature itself becomes a kind of sacred space, as we move out into the church grounds to
finish off with English pastoral madrigals including Vautor’s homage to the ultimate
embodiment of dusk, Sweet Suffolk Owl.
You are invited to bring a picnic to enjoy alongside members of the choir, as the evening lingers over the Surrey Hills.
