Choral Music Concert
PROGRAMME
Traditional Christmas carol Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithfull)
Accompanied by Mindaugas Mišeikis (trumpet, in the introduction), Carmelo Giuseppe Longo (organ)
Christmas carol It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, text by Edmund H. Sears (1849), melody by Richard Storrs Willis (1850)
Accompanied by Carmelo Giuseppe Longo (organ)
Lutheran hymn In natali Domini (On the Birthday of the Lord) from the 16th-century Nürnberger Gesangbuch (arr. for choir by Rev. George H. Palmer)
Christmas carol Masters in This Hall, melody by Marin Marais (1706), text by William Morris (1860) (arr. for choir by Edmund Sedding)
Accompanied by Carmelo Giuseppe Longo (organ), Martyna Rudelytė (double bass), Gintautas Stankevičius (percussion)
Ivan CANCIALOSI – Pater noster (Lord’s Prayer) for mixed choir a cappella (2020, Lithuanian premiere)
Spirituals:
Elijah Rock, arr. by Jester Hairston for mixed choir a cappella;
Deep River, arr. by Paul Hart;
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, arr. by Paul Hart;
Accompanied by Aušra Valentienė (piano)
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit, arr. by Bob Chilcott;
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me, arr. by Roderick Williams
Glenn E. BURLEIGH – gospel Order My Steps (1991)
Soloist Martyna Rudelytė (vocals)
Spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I‘ve Seen, arr. by Bob Chilcott
Soloist Vilius Trakys (bass)
Hymn Amazing Grace, text by John Newton (1772), melody by Willim Walker (1835)
Soloist: Saulė Narvydienė (soprano), Farshad Abbasabadi (baritone)
Spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Soloist Ernesta Stankutė (mezzo-soprano)
Gospel Oh Happy Day, text by Philip Doddridge (1775), melody by Edward F. Rimbault (1854), arr. by Edwin Hawkins (1967)
Soloist Martyna Rudelytė (vocals)
Gospel Travelin’, arr. by Mark Heyes:
Don McCROSSAN – On the Jericho Road, text by Marguerete McCrossan (1928);
Poor Wayfaring Stranger (original melody Ich bin ja nur ein Gast auf Erden by Johann Georg Ebeling, text by Paul Gerhardt, 1666; first published in English in 1858);
Samuel STENNETT – On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand (1787);
Albert E. BRUMLEY – This World Is Not My Home (1919)
Soloist Ernesta Stankutė (mezzo-soprano)
Traditional Christmas carol We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Accompanied by Aušra Valentienė (piano), Carmelo Giuseppe Longo (synthesizer), Martyna Rudelytė (double bass), Gintautas Stankevičius (percussion)