Choir of Trinity College at Concert Hall, QPAC

Stephen Layton is one of the leading choral directors of our time. His 'home' choir is at Trinity College, Cambridge, where the fresh young voices of male and female undergraduates are carefully auditioned for sought after places in what was recently named one of Gramophone magazine's 20 Greatest Choirs.

For this tour they will perform one of the 20th century's most beautiful choral works: the 1922 'Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir' by Frank Martin. The composer regarded it as an intensely personal spiritual expression – it took forty years for him to allow it to be heard – and it has never left the spotlight since.

Surrounding Martin's masterpiece is a rich cache of smaller pieces. Of special note are two new works: one by the choir's Organ Scholar, Owain Park; and another by Australian Joe Twist, commissioned especially for this tour.


Program

Pärt Bogoróditse Djévo
Byrd O Lord, make thy servant
Tallis Salvator
Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences
Stucky O sacrum convivium
Ešenvalds The heavens' flock
Rautavaara Evening Hymn, Ekteniya
Park The wings of the wind
Elgar Give Unto The Lord
Twist New Work (World Premiere)
Commissioned for Musica Viva by Mary and Paul Pollard
Martin Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir
Howells Te Deum (Collegium Regale)