Colla Voce Choir Visit

Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August

Colla Voce is an invitation choir which first formed in 2015 to sing a summer Evensong in Tewkesbury Abbey. Since then it has gathered each summer for a weekend, generally in late July (save for 2020 and 2021 when the pandemic caused the cancellation of its bookings). The choir has sung three times in Tewkesbury Abbey, twice in Gloucester Cathedral, once in Ripon Cathedral and, in 2019, in Brecon. The majority of singers come from invitation or auditioned English choirs. Colla Voce’s Music Director is a choir trainer, conductor, singer and former schoolteacher based in Leicestershire. This year’s organist is an accomplished player based in a Church of England benefice in Leicester Diocese.

The choir will be singing Evensong on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons as well as leading the Cathedral Eucharist on the Sunday morning.

Saturday Evensong

Introit: Lord, let me know mine end, Maurice Greene (1695- 1755)

Responses: William Smith of Durham (1603-1645) with the Lord’s Prayer by Robert Stone (1516-1613)

Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G minor, Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Anthem: O God, thou art my God, Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Sunday 11:00

Mass Setting: Missa Brevis, Jonathan Dove (born 1959)

Communion Motet: I sat down under his shadow, Edward Bairstow (1874- 1946)

Sunday Evensong

Introit: Hymn (after a Song of Wisdom), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Responses: Philip Moore (set for Guildford Cathedral) (born 1943)

Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F, George Dyson (1883-1964)

Anthem: Valour, George Dyson (1883-1964)