2021
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Thu02Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Choral Evensong
17:30Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
The Boxgrove Choral Festival kicks off with a service of Choral Evensong, featuring music by Gibbons, Howells, Stanford, Rachmaninov and Philip Moore.
Not to mention some hymns for everybody to sing!
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Fri03Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Organ Recital
13:00Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
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In what has become a regular fixture, Joseph Wicks returns to the organ bench to give an uplifting recital on Boxgrove Priory’s extremely beautiful 2-manual Hill organ.
Featuring music from the renaissance, baroque and 20th century periods of composition from Germany, France and England, a real variety of music is on offer, and hopefully will demonstrate just what can be done with a small, but perfectly formed instrument.
Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733 – Bach
Fantazia of foure parts – Gibbons
Prelude & Fugue in F minor – Dupré
Sonate No 2 – Hindemith
Five Short Pieces – Whitlock
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Fri03Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Renaissance Late
20:00Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
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Boxgrove Priory’s acoustics are particularly good for renaissance polyphony. Last time, we sang a masterpiece from England. This time, it’s the turn of the Spanish school, and what a wealth of exquisite music there is to choose from!
This performance is the first to use a brand new critical edition of the Victoria by Italian scholar Enrico Correggia.
This event is generously supported by Angel Early Music, with our grateful thanks.
Lamentations for Holy Saturday – Lobo
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday – Victoria
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Fri03Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Compline
21:00Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
Join us for the atmospheric service of Compline under the glow of candlelight. Featuring some gorgeous music that has become trademark Boxgrove Choral Festival, alongside plainchant.
Phos hilaron – Owain Park
Nunc Dimittis – Victoria
Keep me as the apple of an eye – Neil Cox
The Lord’s Prayer – Sheppard
Bring us, O Lord God – Harris
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Sat04Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Isolation Songbook
14:30Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
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We are delighted to be presenting Isolation Songbook to a live audience for the very first time!
Newly announced BBC New Generation Artist Helen Charlston, together with Baritone Michael Craddock and Pianist Alexander Soares will perform a large selection from their hugely successful lockdown project.
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Sat04Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Festival Concert
19:30Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
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Our programme for this year’s Festival Concert starts with music for reflection, mourning and hope, before bursting into joy – hopefully encapsulating as many differing emotions as have been felt over the pandemic. All unaccompanied gems, the acoustic of Boxgrove Priory will once again bathe our music making in its extraordinary glow, and with the stunning architecture as a backdrop, what more could you ask for?
Take him, earth, for cherishing – Howells
Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Philip Moore
Eternal Light, shine into our hearts – Neil Cox
Ecce vicit Leo – Philips
Ave Maria – Holst
Ave Maria – Biebl
Christus vincit – James MacMillan
Vox Dicentis – Naylor
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Sun05Sep2021
Boxgrove Choral Festival: Mass
11:00Boxgrove Priory, Church Lane, Boxgrove, Chichester PO18 0EE
To conclude this year’s festival, we will be singing at Mass. For the first time, we will be joining forces with members of Boxgrove Priory Choir to sing Vaughan Williams’ Te Deum in G.
For this Te Deum, we are delighted to welcome Christopher Robinson as our special guest conductor.
Mass in G minor – Vaughan Williams
Ave Maria – Holst
Te Deum in G – Vaughan Williams