snoepconcert
My Delight and Thy Delight
epjes o n s e l a k i z u m de lekkerste iek z u m r o o k e s l uit de Enge door Amici Vocaal Ensemble o.l.v. Hans Wils
zondag 23 juni 2013 11 u Sint-Antoniuskerk Edegem www.amicivocaalensemble.be
Programma
Geacht Publiek, Met veel ‘delight’ presenteren wij u vandaag een programma voor de ware fijnproever: een ontdekkingstocht doorheen de Engelse partsong-literatuur. We bevinden ons in de tweede helft van de 19de eeuw, een periode waarin koorgezelschappen (choral societies) in Engeland een grote bloei kenden, mede onder de invloed van de koormuziek van Mendelssohn. Deze verenigingen hadden uiteraard nood aan nieuw repertoire, en dus werden vele nieuwe a-cappellawerkjes gecomponeerd, ook wel partsongs genoemd. Dit waren meestal homofone zettingen van profane teksten, dikwijls van uitmuntende poëten. Hoewel vaak bescheiden van opzet, vinden we hierbij soms echte pareltjes, vooral wanneer ze uit de pen van schitterende componisten, zoals Elgar, Stanford of Parry vloeiden. Deze lekkernijen plaatsen wij vanmorgen tegenover enkele vroeg-barokke snoepjes van Purcell, Dowland en Youll. Even maken we een uitstapje naar een moderner idioom met het prachtige gebed ‘Into thy Hands’ van Jonathan Dove. Veel snoepgenot!
Dank om na het concert uw gsm weer aan te zetten (en al uw vrienden te melden wat ze gemist hebben:-)
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Programma • Come let us join the Roundelay William Beale (1784-1854) • Come live with me William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875) • Come again! Sweet love doth now invite John Dowland (1563-1626) • In these delightful, pleasant groves Henry Purcell (1659-1695) • The long day closes • The Moon
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) George Dyson (1883-1964)
• O Happy Eyes • Love • My love dwelt in a Northern Land
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
• Now is the month of maying, op. 12 nr. 4 Gustav Holst (1874-1934) • Come away, come, sweet love John Dowland (1563-1626) • My Delight and thy Delight Charles Hubert Parry (1848-1918) • In the merry month of May Henry Youll (circa 1600) • If music be the Food of Love Henry Purcell (1659-1695) • Music, when soft voices die • The Blue Bird, op. 119 nr. 3 • Into thy hands • Full fathom five
Charles Hubert Parry (1848-1918) Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Jonathan Dove (1959- ) Charles Wood (1866-1926)
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Hans Wils Hans studeerde in 1993 af aan de KU Leuven waar hij musicologie en culturele studies volgde. Na enkele stages in o.m. de Muntschouwburg werd hij in 1995 voorstellingsleider bij de Vlaamse Opera, waar hij nog steeds in die hoedanigheid werkzaam is en reeds aan een 80-tal producties meewerkte met vele grote dirigenten. Sinds 2008 werkt hij regelmatig als muzieksamensteller bij Klara. Ondertussen is Hans zelf ook steeds actief musicerend bezig geweest en volgde hij blokfluit, piano, cello, zang, beiaard en orgel aan verscheidene muziekacademies. Als koorzanger zong en zingt hij in o.a. Audite Nova o.l.v. Kamiel Cooremans, La Furia o.l.v. Bart Geurden, Ex Tempore o.l.v. Florian Heyerick, Octopus o.l.v. Bart Van Reyn en El Grillo o.l.v. Inge Bollaert. Hans Wils kreeg ook zelf de dirigeermicrobe te pakken en leidde enkele gelegenheidsensembles, zoals de Ode for St Cecilia’s Day van G.F. Händel met het ensemble A en het koor Gioia della Musica. Van 2009 tot 2012 was hij dirigent van het vocaal en instrumentaal ensemble Continuo, waarmee hij voornamelijk 16de- en 17de-eeuwse muziek uitvoerde. Sinds oktober 2011 dirigeert hij eveneens het vocaal ensemble Amici.
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Come Let us join the Roundelay (Tekst: Anon – Muziek: William Beale) Come, let us join the roundelay, And sing the jocund time away. Fa la la la. While the fauns and satyrs round, Dance along on fairy ground, And the merry nymphs and swains, Gaily trip these rural plains. Fa la la la.
Come live with me
(Tekst:Chr. Marlowe - Muziek: W.S. Bennett) Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field. And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love. There will I make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle. The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my Love.
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Come again, sweet love doth now invite (Tekst: Anoniem – Muziek: J. Downland)
Come again, Sweet love doth now invite Thy graces that refrain To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die With thee again in sweetest sympathy Come again, That I may cease to mourn Thro’ thy unkind disdain; For now, left and forlorn, I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die In deadly pain and endless misery. Gentle Love, Draw forth thy wounding dart, Thou canst not pierce her heart, For I that to approve, By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts, Did tempt while she for triumph laughs.
In These Delightful, Pleasant Groves (Tekst: T. Shadwell – Muziek: H. Purcell)
We come, no joy like this Now let us sing, rejoice and kiss. The great can never know such bliss as this. In these delightful pleasant Groves, Let us Celebrate our happy Love. Let’s Pipe and Dance, and Laugh and Sing, Thus ev’ry living thing, Revel in the cheerful Spring.
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The long day closes
(Tekst: H.Chorley – Muziek: A. Sullivan) No star is o’er the lake, Its pale watch keeping, The moon is half awake, Through gray mist creeping, The last red leaves fall round The porch of roses, The clock hath ceased to sound, The long day closes. Sit by the silent hearth In calm endeavour, To count the sounds of mirth, Now dumb for ever. Heed not how hope believes And fate disposes: Shadow is round the eaves, The long day closes. The lighted windows dim Are fading slowly. The fire that was so trim Now quivers lowly. Go to the dreamless bed Where grief reposes; Thy book of toil is read, The long day closes.
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The Moon
(Tekst: C. Best – Muziek: G. Dyson) See how the pale queen of the silent night Doth cause the ocean to attend upon her, And he as long as she is in her sight, With full tide is ready her to honour. But when the silver wagon of the moon is mounted high he cannot follow, The sea calls home his crystal waves to moan. And with low ebb doth manifest his sorrow. So you that are the sovereign of my heart Have all my joys attending on your will, So as you come and as you depart, Joys ebb and flow within my tender heart.
O Happy Eyes
(Tekst: A. Elgar – Muziek: E. Elgar) O happy eyes, for you will see My love, my lady pass today; What I may not, that may you say And ask for answer daringly. O happy eyes. O happy flow’rs that touch her dress, That touch her dress and take her smile, O whisper to her all the while Some words of love in idleness. O happy flowers. O happy airs that touch her cheek, And lightly kiss and float away, So carelessly as if in play, Why take ye all the joy I seek?
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O happy eyes my love to see, Alas! alas! I may not greet With word or touch my lady sweet; More happy eyes, say all for me.
Love
(Tekst: A. Maquarie – Muziek: E. Elgar) Like the rosy northern glow Flushing on a moonless night Where the world is level snow, So thy light. In my time of outer gloom Thou didst come, a tender lure; Thou, when life was but a tomb, Beamedst pure. Thus I looked to heaven again, Yearning up with eager eyes, As sunflow’rs after dreary rain Drink the skies. Oh glow on and brighter glow, Let me ever gaze on thee, Lest I lose warm hope and so Cease to be.
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My Love dwelt in a Northern land (Tekst: A. Lang – Muziek: E. Elgar)
My love dwelt in a northern land A tower dim in a forest green Was his, and far away the sand, And gray wash of the waves [was]2 seen, The woven forest boughs between. And through the northern summer night The sunset slowly died away, And herds of strange deer, silver white, Came gleaming through the forest gray, And fled like ghosts before the day. And oft, that month, we watch’d the moon Wax great and white o’er wood and lawn, And wane, with waning of the June, Till, like a brand for battle drawn, She fell, and flamed in a wild dawn. I know not if the forest green Still girdles round that castle gray, I know not if, the boughs between, The white deer vanish ere the day. The grass above my love is green, My heart is colder than the clay.
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Now is the month of maying (Tekst: anoniem – Muziek: G. Holst)
Now is the month of maying, When merry lads are playing, fa la, Each with his bonny lass Upon the greeny grass. Fa la. The Spring, clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at Winter’s sadness, fa la, And to the bagpipe’s sound The nymphs tread out their ground. Fa la. Fie then! why sit we musing, Youth’s sweet delight refusing? Fa la. Say, dainty nymphs, and speak, Shall we play barley-break? Fa la.
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Come away, come, sweet love (Muziek: J.Dowland)
Come away, come sweet love, t the golden morning breaks. All the earth, all the air, of love and pleasure speaks: Teach thine arms then to embrace, and sweet rosy lips to kiss, and mix our souls in mutual bliss. Eyes were made for beauty’s grace, viewing, rueing love’s long pain, procur’d by beauty’s rude disdain. Come away, come sweet love, the golden morning wastes, while the sun from his sphere, his fiery arrows casts: Making all the shadows fly, Playing, staying, in the grove, to entertain the stealth of love. Thither, sweet love, let us hie, flying, dying in desire, wing’d with sweet hopes and heav’nly fire.
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My delight and thy delight (Tekst: R. Bridges – Muziek: H. Parry) My delight and thy delight. Walking, like two angels white. In the gardens of the night. My desire, and thy desire. Twining to a tongue of fire, Leaping live, and laughing higher: Thro’ the everlasting strife, In the mystery of life. Love, from whom the world began, Hath the secret of the sun. Love can tell, and love alone, Whence the million stars were strewn. Why each atom knows its own, How, in spite of woe and death, Gay is life, and sweet its breath. This he taught us, this we knew, Happy in his science true, Hand to hand as we stood, Neath the shadows of the wood. Heart to heart as we lay in the dawning of the day.
In the merry Month of May (Muziek: H. Youll)
In the merry Month of May, the fields are decked with flowers gay, Fa, la, la, la The woods and groves where birds do sing redoubling echoes sweetly ring. Fa, la, la, la
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If Music be the Food of Love (Muziek: H. Purcell)
If music be the food of love, sing on till I am fill’d with joy; for then my list’ning soul you move with pleasures that can never cloy, your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare that you are music ev’rywhere. Pleasures invade both eye and ear, so fierce the transports are, they wound, and all my senses feasted are, tho’ yet the treat is only sound. Sure I must perish by our charms, unless you save me in your arms.
Music, when soft voices die (Tekst: P. B. Shelley- Muziek: H. Parry)
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
The blue bird
(Tekst: M.Coleridge – Muziek: C.V.Stanford) The lake lay blue below the hill. O’er it, as I looked, there flew Across the waters, cold and still, A bird whose wings were palest blue.
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The sky above was blue at last, The sky beneath me blue in blue. A moment, ere the bird had passed, It caught his image as he flew.
Into thy hands (Muziek: J. Dove)
Into thy hands, O Lord and Father, we commend our souls and our bodies, our parents and our homes, friends and kindred. Into thy hands, O Lord and Father, we commend our benefactors and brethren departed. Into thy hands, O Lord and Father, we commend all thy people faithfully believing, and all who need thy pity and protection. Enlighten us with thy holy grace and suffer us never more to be separated from thee. Lord Jesus Christ, mercifully grant to me that the rest of my pilgrimage may be directed according to thy will, that the rest of my life may be completed in thee and my soul may deserve to enjoy thee who art eternal life for ever.
Full fathom five
(Tekst: W. Shakespeare – Muziek: C. Wood) Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell.
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Amici Vocaal Ensemble is een enthousiaste groep koorzangers, in 2008 ontstaan uit een aantal vrienden die reeds lange tijd samen zongen. Doorheen de jaren hebben verschillende zangers zich bij de groep aangesloten; samen hebben zij bewezen verschillende muzikale genres en stijlen aan te kunnen, en bouwden ze een repertoire uit dat reikt van de 15de tot de 21ste eeuw. Onder leiding van dirigenten Vincent Lesage en Trees Rohde werd vol enthousiasme het repertoire verder uitgebouwd en de koorklank verfijnd. In oktober 2011 werd Hans Wils als dirigent aangetrokken, musicoloog en voorstellingsleider aan de Vlaamse Opera, die reeds heel wat ervaring opdeed als dirigent; met hem waait er een nieuwe wind doorheen Amici Vocaal Ensemble. In 2012 brachten zij twee boeiende projecten, Fanny en Clara, een a capella-programma rond Felix en Fanny Mendelssohn en Robert en Clara Schumann, in Edegem (juni 2012) en het Requiem op. 48 van Gabriel Fauré, in Kapellen (oktober 2012), naast twee sfeervolle kerstconcerten in Wilrijk en Kapellen. Sopranen: Anne-Marie De Blieck, Lynn De Clercq, Helena De Paepe, Mieke Pesic, Ellen Storms Alten: Mirjam Boets, Leen De Vuyst, Patricia Hernalsteen, Nora Vandervelden, Marleen Vervloet Tenoren: Peter Baets, Herman Creten, Marc Luyten, Jan Muts, Marc Vande Meerssche Bassen: Chris Blom, Pierre Hernalsteen, Frank Stals Bindteksten: Marc Luyten Heeft u zelf zin om mee te zingen, aarzel niet en neem contact:
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