Charles Wood Festival of Music and Summer School Armagh

Centenary Festival Opening Concert

Venue: St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh
Time: 20:00

The centenary celebrations continue with a major opening concert featuring Dulciana, one of Ireland's leading upper-voice ensembles, and the celebrated South African-born organist Liesbeth Schlumberger.

The programme features choral music by Hildegard of Bingen, Antonín Dvorák, Jonathan Nagle and Jennifer Lucy Cook, alongside organ masterpieces including the Allegro Vivace from Symphony No. 5, Op. 42 by Charles-Marie Widor and the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor; BWV 582 by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Repertoire

O Successores, Hildegard von Bingen

Felice Primavera, Carlo Gesualdo arr. Thais Janssen

The Slighted Heart, Antonín Dvorák

Christe, Adoramus Te, Claudio Monteverdi arr. Joan Yakkey

Geantrai, Michael McGlynn

Father Thunder, Laura Jekabsone

In the Night Lands, Jonathan Nangle

Panda Chant II, Meredith Monk

Time, Jennifer Lucy Cook