Dresdner Motettenchor directed by Matthias Jung perform chamber choral works from across Europe from Bach to Britten and more...

The leading German chamber choir 'Dresdner Motettenchor' performs at St Gabriel's as part of a collaboration with the London-based Joyful Company of Singers.

We are most grateful to The Dresden Trust www.dresdentrust.org for their generous support for this collaborative choral project..

The Motettenchor's full listing of the pieces featuring in their performance at St Gabriel's is:

Knut Nystedt – Laudate Dominum

Thomas Weelkes – Hosanna to the Son of David

Thomas Weelkes – When David heard

Heinrich Schütz – Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock

Heinrich Schütz – from Psalmen Davids 1619:

Aus der Tiefe ruf ich,

Herr, zu dir

Johann Michael Bach – Halt was du hast

Johann Sebastian Bach – Komm, Jesu komm

Rudolf Mauersberger – Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst

Wilhelm Weismann – from Vier Liebeslieder nach Dichtungen des 12. Jahrhunderts:

1. Tagelied

3. Klage

Benjamin Britten – from Five Flower Songs:

2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months

3. Marsh Flowers

4. The Evening Primrose

Camille Saint‑Saëns – Calme des nuits

Pēteris Vasks – Pater noster

Robert Lucas Pearsall – Great God of love

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Valiant-for-truth

Benjamin Britten – Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High

Albert Becker – Bleibe, Abend will es werden

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