“English music from the time of Queen Victoria, to launch Proms Choral Day.”
Parry: Coronation Anthem ‘I Was Glad’
Stanford: Three Motets, Op. 38
Balfour Gardiner: Evening Hymn
William Henry Harris: Faire is the heaven
Ireland: Greater love hath no man
Stanford: When Mary thro’ the garden went; The Guest; To a Tree (from Eight Partsongs, Op. 127)
Elgar: Give unto the Lord
The Sixteen
Simon Johnson (organ)
Harry Christophers
“One of Britain’s best-loved choirs, The Sixteen – under Harry Christophers – returns to the Proms on Choral Day for some of the most serene and spiritual choral works written in England during the Victorian period – music in line with this ensemble’s singular combination of style and beauty, blend and expression.”