Yale Schola Cantorum Repertoire
Simon Carrington | Director . 2003-2009
Yale Schola Cantorum Repertoire
Simon Carrington
Director
2003-2009
2016-2017 | Yale Voxtet [as guest conductor]
• ‘Histoires et Dialogues Sacrées de la Musique Baroque Française’ program
– Cantique de Moïse | Etienne Moulinié (1600-1669)
– Dialogus de anima | Henri Du Mont (1610-1684)
– Sacrificium Abrahae H. 402 | Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
2015-2016 | with the Yale Voxtet and Yale Baroque Ensemble [as guest conductor]
• ‘Christmas in Lübeck Music of Buxtehude and More’ program | program prepared by Kerala J. Snyder
– Jauchzet ihr Himmel | Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675)
– Gabriel Angelus | Salvatore Sacchi (1572-1622)
– Magnificat cum laudibus | Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)
– Laudes | Sethus Calvisius (1556-1629)
– Laudes | Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
– Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen | Hugo Distler (1908-1942)
– Corde natus ex parente | Melchior Vulpius (1570-1615)
– Ein kleines Kindelein | Franz Tunder (1614-1667)
– Reges terrae congregati sunt | Jacobus Vaet (1529-1567)
– Siehe es erschien der Engel | Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
– Ihr lieben Christen freut euch nun | Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
2014-2015 [as guest conductor]
• ‘Splendor and Introspection’ program
– In nativitatem Domini canticum H.416 | Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
– Litanies de la Vierge H.83
– Te Deum H.146
2013-2014 [as guest conductor]
• ‘The Face of Heaven So Fine’ program [performed in New Haven and on tour in Italy]
– Missa Ave Maria in 6, 7, and 8 voice parts | Palestrina (1525-1594)
– Take him Earth for Cherishing [for the JFK 50th Anniversary] | Steven Stucky (1949-2016)
– Dixit Dominus RV 807 | Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
2012-2013 [as guest conductor]
• ‘Venetian Vespers ~ Music for St. Mark’s by Rosenmüller and Legrenzi’ program | program prepared by Brian Clark
– Domine ad adjuvandum | Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-16990)
– Dixit Dominus
– Laudate pueri Dominum
– Laudate Dominum
– Confitebor tipi Domine | Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684)
– Beatus Vir
– Salve, mi Jesu
– Salve, dulcis Salvator
– Magnificat
2011-2012 [as guest conductor]
• Solomon | G.F. Handel [with the Yale Baroque Ensemble . Robert Mealy . director]
• ‘Anniversaries and Messages’ program | [performed in New Haven, as well as on tour in Turkey and Greece]:
– Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater | Tomás Luis De Victoria (c. 1549-1611)
– Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf | J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
– Ave Maria Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
– Messages to Myself (2008) | Christopher Theofanidis (b. 1967)
– Again (after ecclesiastes) (2005) | David Lang (b. 1957)
2010-2011 [as guest conductor]
• ‘Concord of Sweet Sounds’ program | Yale Center for British Art
– O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth | William Byrd (1540-1623)
– It was a lover and his lass | Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
– O grief ev’n on the bud | Thomas Morley
– What is our life | Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
– Farewell, dear love | Robert Jones (fl. 1597-1615)
– Though Amaryllis dance in green (2005) | William Byrd
– Retire, my troubled soul | John Ward (1571-1638)
• Shakespeare Songs | Thomas Arne (1710-1778), ed. Judith Malafronte
• Three Shakespeare Songs | Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
• Serenade to Music | Vaughan Williams
• ‘La Gloire de la Musique Française’ program
– Dominus Regnavit | Jean Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville (1711-1772)
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
– La mort d’Ophelie | Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
– Le chant des Bretons | Hector Berlioz
– Le Ballet des Ombres | Hector Berlioz
– Stabat Mater | Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
with the Yale Symphony Orchestra
with the Yale Symphony Orchestra
– Psaume CL, Halleluiah, louez le Dieu | César Franck (1822-1890)
[combined choirs]
[combined choirs]
2009-2010
• ‘Sing Ye Birds, a Joyous Song’ program
– Western Wind Mass | John Taverner (c. 1490-1545)
– The Glory and the Dream (2000) | Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936)
with Thomas Murray organ
with Thomas Murray organ
– Glorious and Powerful God | Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
– Magnificat (Second Service) | Orlando Gibbons
– Te lucis ante terminum | John Taverner
2008-2009
• ‘Venetian Vespers, Savage Altars, Flashing Waters’ program
Chiaroscuro V & St. Thomas 5th Avenue, New York
Chiaroscuro V & St. Thomas 5th Avenue, New York
– Confitebor tibi Domine | Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (1615-1649)
– Ave Regina caelorum | Alessandro Grandi (1586-1630)
– Savage Altars (1991) | Ingram Marshall
– Magnificat a 6 | Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
– Regina coeli laetare | Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
– To the flashing water say: I am (2008) | Joan Panetti
– Beatus vir | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
• ‘A capella Works from Victorian Britain’ program
in conjunction with the North American Victorian Studies Conference at Yale
in conjunction with the North American Victorian Studies Conference at Yale
– At the round Earth’s Imagined Corners | Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
– When Mary through the Garden went | Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
– Go song of mine, Op. 57 | Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
– I’m seventeen come Sunday | Trad., arr. Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
• ‘Baltic Voices’ program
Paul Hillier Residency
Paul Hillier Residency
– Laulusild | Veljo Tormis
– Lux aeterna | Vaclovas Augustinas
– The Dazzled Eye Lost Its Speech | Rytis Mazulis
– Three songs | Peteris Vasks
– Summer Rain | Toivo Tulev
– Magnificat | Arvo Pärt
• Nicholas McGegan Residency
– As Pants the Hart (from Chondos anthem No. 6) | G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
– Te Deum in A major . HWV 282 | G.F. Handel
• B Minor Mass | J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
New Haven | Seoul . Korea | Beijing and Shanghai . China
New Haven | Seoul . Korea | Beijing and Shanghai . China
2007-2008
• Inauguration of Taylor & Boody Meantone Organ: Marquand Chapel . Yale University
– Te Deum: Herr Gott, dich loben wir for 4 choirs | Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)
with the Piffaro Renaissance Band
with the Piffaro Renaissance Band
• ‘Chiaroscuro IV: Canticles & Cries’ program
– Cries of London | Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
– Magnificat in D | Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
– The Canticle of the Sun (1997) | Sofia Gubaidulina
– The Cries of London | Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
• ‘Ardo, Ardo: In Love and in War’ program
– Madrigal Books VII & VIII (staged) | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
• Stephen Layton Residency
– Mass for Four Voices | William Byrd (1539-1623)
– A.M.D.G. | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
– Mairi (1995) | James MacMillan
• Hora est: Early Latin Motets | Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
– Magnificat
– Tu es Petrus
– Kyrie with soloists and orchestra
– Hora es for 4 choirs
– Ave Maria for 16 voices and wind ensemble
• Vespers of the Blessed Virgin 1610 | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
2006-2007
• ‘Chiaroscuro III’ program
National Collegiate Choral Organisation Convention
San Fernando Cathedral . San Antonio
National Collegiate Choral Organisation Convention
San Fernando Cathedral . San Antonio
– Usquequo, Domine, oblivisceris me | Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
– Svogava con le stelle | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
– Le Reniement de St Pierre H424 (No. 528) | Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)
– A gust inside the god (2006) | Joan Panetti
– Im Herbst Op. 104 Nr. 5 | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
– Sehnsucht Op. 112 Nr. 1 | Brahms
– Laudi alla vergine Maria (2004) | James MacMillan (US Premiere)
• ‘Music for the Chapel Royal of Louis XIV’ program
with Ensemble Européen William Byrd |Graham O’Reilly . director
with Ensemble Européen William Byrd |Graham O’Reilly . director
– Magnificat a Deux Choeurs | Henry Dumont (1610-84)
– Exultat Animus | Dumont
– Le Reniement de St Pierre | Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
– Salve Regina a trois choeurs H.24 | Charpentier
– Petits Motets | Dumont & Moulinié
• ‘New Music New Haven’ program
Three Nw Motets (2006) | Steven Stucky
Three Nw Motets (2006) | Steven Stucky
– O admirabile commercium
– O sacrum convivium
– O vos omnes
• ‘Helmuth Rilling Bach Week’
– Christen, ätzet diesen Tag Kantate . BWV 63 | J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
– Sanctus in D . BWV 238 | J.S. Bach
– Magnificat in Eb . BWV 243a | J.S. Bach
with four Christmas inserts
with four Christmas inserts
• ‘Neo-Romantic Art and Music in Britain’ program
at the Yale Center for British Art
at the Yale Center for British Art
– The Windhover | Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
– Early One Morning from Songs of the British Isles | Tippett
– Choral Dances from Gloriana | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
• American Choral Directors Association National Convention
Miami . Florida
Miami . Florida
– The Ecstasies Above (2006) | Tarik O’Regan (World Premiere)
• Buxtehude Tercentenary
– Passion Music with Membra Jesu Nostri | Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
2005-2006
• ‘Robert Baker Memorial Concert’
– Candidi Facti Sunt | Thomas Tallis (1505-85)
– De Sancto Ioanne Baptista (2004) | Tarik O’Regan
– David’s Songs IV – Psalm 150 (1985) | William Albright
• ‘Chiaroscuro II’ program
– Welcome to all the pleasures | Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
– Rothko Chapel | Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
– O sing unto the Lord (1688) | Henry Purcell
– The Flight of the Swan (1999) | Giles Swayne
– A Good-Night (1999) | Sir Richard Rodney Bennet
• Missa Resurrectionis | Antonio Bertali (1605-1669)
with Spiritus Collective . Robert Mealy and Yale Collegium Players
with Spiritus Collective . Robert Mealy and Yale Collegium Players
• Program conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
with Yale Philharmonia Chamber Players
with Yale Philharmonia Chamber Players
– Vesperae solennes de confessore . K.339 | W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
• St. John Passion . second version (1725) | J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Graduate Voice Soloists . Robert Mealy and Yale Collegium Players
Graduate Voice Soloists . Robert Mealy and Yale Collegium Players
• ‘Music of the Americas’ program
with Thomas Murray . organ
with Thomas Murray . organ
– Lamentations of Jeremiah | Manuel Sumaya (1678-1756)
– David’s Songs (1985) | William Albright
2004-2005
• Ezra Laderman 80th birthday concert
– Shma I & Shma II (World Premieres)
• Chiaroscuro I
Selva Morale e Spirituale (1641) | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
with Yale Collegium Players
Selva Morale e Spirituale (1641) | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
with Yale Collegium Players
– O ciechi, ciechi
– Laudate Dominum
– Sanctorum meritis Primo
– Magnificat Secondo
– Salve Regina a tre voci
– Gloria
• Canti di Prigionia | Luigi Dallapiccola (1938-1941)
with Yale School of Music Instrumental Ensemble
with Yale School of Music Instrumental Ensemble
• ‘Vesperae longiores ac breviores’ program
– Vesperae longiores ac breviores (1693) | Heinrich Biber (1644-1704)
– Deus in adiutorium meum intende | Heinrich Biber
– Domine ad adiuvandum me | Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646-1712)
– Dixit Dominus | Heinrich Biber
– Confitebor tibi Domine | Heinrich Biber
– Beatus vir | Heinrich Biber
– Laudate, pueri, Dominum | Heinrich Biber
– Laudate Dominum | Heinrich Biber
– Hymn: Ave maris stella | Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705)
– Sancta Maria Dei | Rupert Ignaz Mayr
– Magnificat | Heinrich Biber
– Salve Regina | Giovanni Legrenzi (c. 1620-1690)
• ‘Ecstatic Meditations’ program
– Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus | Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510-1564)
– Ecstatic Meditations (1998) | Aaron Jay Kernis
• Rejoice in the Lord alway | Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
• Hymn to St Cecilia | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
conducted by Sir David Willcocks
conducted by Sir David Willcocks
• Nunc Dimittis (2005) | Robin McClellan
commissioned by Yale Schola Cantorum
commissioned by Yale Schola Cantorum
• Arise my love | Daniel Kellogg
• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day | Niels Lindberg
• Wildwood Flower | arr. Jennifer Higdon
• Swing | Jennifer Higdon
2003-2004
• Debut Concert | Sprague Memorial Hall
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
– Musica Dei Donum | Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)
– Musikalische Exequien | Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
– Cantata No. 93 Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten | J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Credo
in honour of the 80th birthday of Professor Jarislav Pelikan
in honour of the 80th birthday of Professor Jarislav Pelikan
– Shma I (first performance) | Ezra Laderman
– Credo from Missa Ma Bouche Rit | Anonymous (c. 1500)
– Das deutsche Patrem | Luther Hymnal sequence
– Das deutsche Patrem | Balthazar Resinarius (1485-1544)
– Das deutsche Patrem | Andreas Raselius (1563-1602)
– Das deutsche Patrem | Johann Nepomuk David (1895-1977)
– Credo (revised verson, 1964) | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
– Credo (1972) | Einojuhani Rautavaara
– Credo from Brief Mass (1996) | Dan Locklair
• ‘In Memoriam Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)’ program
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
– Ouverture pour Eglise, H.524 (No. 355)
– Confitebor tibi H.225 (No. 480)
– Le Reniement de st Pierre H424 (No. 528)
– Dances for the Comtesse d’Escarbagnas H. 494 (No. 298)
– Magnificat a trios voix sur la meme basse avec symphonie H. 73 (No. 282)
– Salve Regina a trois choeurs H.24 (No. 58)
– Conserva me Domine H230 (No. 265)
• Seven Last Words from the Cross (1994) | James MacMillan
with Yale School of Music string players . conducted by the composer
with Yale School of Music string players . conducted by the composer
• Beatus via | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
with Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players
• ‘Bach Family Motets program
with Martin Jean . organ
with Martin Jean . organ
– Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur | Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
– Unser Leben ist ein Schatten | Johann Bach (1604-1673)
– Du Friedenfürst, Herr Jesu Christ (Partita) | Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
– Fürchte dich nicht | Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
– Nun hab’ich überwunden | Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694)
– Fantasia in G Minor . BWV 543a | J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
– Unsere Trübsal | Johann Ludwig Bach (1670-1731)
– Fugue in G minor . BWV 543b | J.S. Bach
– Das ist meine Freude | Johann Ludwig Bach (1670-1731)