Stargazers: Holst 150

Gustav Holst was a composer who saw further than other artists: a creative spirit grounded in the heartland of British music, whose vision reached out to embrace English folksong, Hindu poetry and the outer limits of the cosmos itself. In his 150th anniversary year, The Carice Singers present an evening of Holst’s masterly choral music, including the Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, and in tribute to Holst’s lifelong commitment to new music, they interweave it with recent works inspired by the same sense of the limitless, including a brand new piece by Electra Perivolaris, specially composed for the anniversary. 

Programme

Holst – The Evening watch

Grace-Evangeline Mason – Stars above, Earth below

Holst – Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda Group 3

Holst – Venus from The Planets (arr. solo harp)

Holst – Sing me the men

Urmas Sisask – Benedictio

Holst – Two Eastern Pictures

Electra Perivolaris – Weaving stars (World premiere)

Holst – This have I done for my true love

Charles Villiers Stanford – God and the Universe

Holst - Nunc Dimittis