Thursday 19 April 2018

The ensemble Voces8 is established as one of the world's most flexible and popular singing groups. They tour extensively in Europe, North America and Asia, with a repertoire that varies from renaissance polyphony to new commissioned works as well as pop and jazz arrangements.

The Bergen-based Edvard Grieg Kor also shows great repertoire flexibility. They regularly perform with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and form the core of Bergen National Opera's choir. In a short time they have established themselves as a leading eight-part a cappella ensemble, with concerts in Norway and internationally.

Several works and arrangements have been created especially for them by leading composers such as Jonathan Rathbone and David Lang. They also run an extensive development and teaching program that includes five children's choirs in Bergen as well as the Edvard Grieg Youth Choir, which attracts singers from all over Norway.

At this concert, Voces8 and the Edvard Grieg Choir, separately and together, will perform several of their own favorite works.

JS Bach – Singet dem Herrn
Arvo Pärt – The Deer's Cry
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Ola Gjeilo – Second Eve
Eriks Ešenvalds - O salutaris hostia
JS Bach – Come, Jesus, come
Edvard Grieg arr. Jonathan Rathbone – Holberg Suite: Prelude & Sarabande
Thomas Tallis - Good Grant With Grace
Jonathan Dove - In Beauty May I Walk
Tyrone Landau – Sveini æinum saclausum from “Passio Olavi”
Benjamin Britten – A Hymn to the Virgin
Sergei Rachmaninov – Bogoroditse Devo
Thread. Irish arr. Joshua Pacey – Danny Boy
Burt Bacharach arr. Jonathan Rathbone – Do you know the way to San José?
Agathe Backer Grøndahl arr. Paul Robinson - The evening is quiet
Nat 'King' Cole arr. Jim Clements - Straighten Up and Fly Right
Duke Ellington arr. Ben Parry - It Don't Mean a Thing