The Gabrieli Choir
Concert Archive
Two concerts in September
2008-08-15 (update the 2008-10-01)
The Choir will give two concerts in September, 2008 with identical programmes. The first is on the 13th at the Jáki Chapel, Budapest starting at 7pm. The second concert is on the 28t, the venue is the Holy Spirit Church of Herminamező, 14th district, Budapest, starting at 7.30pm. Admission is free.
The programme of the concerts is the following:
- Somervell: O Saviour of the World
- Howells: Magnificat
- Morley: Agnus Dei
- Howells: Nunc Dimittis
- Walton: A Litany
- Tallis: When Rising from the Bed of Death
- Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Alway
- Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament
- Rawsthorne: Like as the Hart
- Shephard: The Secret of Christ
- Stanford: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
- Sisask: Kiitkem Südamest Mariat
The concert poster/handbill can be downloaded from here.
New Easter Concerts on 29th and the 30th of March
2008-03-16 (update the 2008-07-27)
The Gabrieli Choir is performing a new programme for Easter of 2008 at two venues this March. Beautiful pieces from Byrd, Howells, Elgar, Handel and Rutter, just to name a few will be sung first at the new Holy Trinity Church of Gödöllő on Saturday, the 29th. You can download the handbill in pdf format.
The second concert with identical programme will be in Budapest at Jáki Chapel the next day, on Sunday the 30th. You can download the handbill in pdf format.
Both concerts start at 7pm, admission is free, donations are welcome.
Lenten Concert in the St. Michael Church
2007-03-08 (update the 2007-03-19)
The Gabrieli Choir will perform a programme of music for Lent. The programme is the following:
- Thomas Tallis (c.1515-1585) – When Rising From the Bed of Death
- Orlande di Lassus (c.1532-1594) – Super Flumina Babylonis
- Richard Farrant (?-1580) – Call to Remembrance
- Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) – Drop, Drop Slow Tears
- William Byrd (c.1540-1623) – Ave Verum Corpus
- Robert Whyte (c.1538-1574) – Lamentations
- Orlando Gibbons & Sir Edward Bairstow (1874-1946) – Jesu, Grant Me This I Pray
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) – Wash Me Throughly
- Sir John Stainer (1840-1901) – God So Loved the World
- John Sanders (1933-2003) – The Reproaches
Download the handbill.
Tickets: 1,800 HUF (600 HUF for students) are available at Concert&Media outlets, online at jegyelado.hu or at the door.
Summer Concerts 2007
2006-12-09 (update the 2008-08-10)
This July the Gabrieli Choir will be singing in three concerts, to which all will be most welcome. On Saturday 7th July the choir will be appearing at Zsámbék, in a concert organized – and broadcast – by Hungarian Radio; a week later, on Sunday 15th July, with a different programme, we shall be at the Ják Chapel in Budapest’s City Park; and at the end of the month, on Sunday 29th July, we shall be performing a programme containing items from both the earlier concerts at Vigántpetend, as part of the Művészetek Völgye Festival. For full details, please follow the link below.