Voci’s eleventh Voices in Peace concert offered soothing reflections on peace, birth and nature, including Charpentier’s pastoral setting of the nativity story from Luke — “In Nativitate Domini nostri Christi Canticum” H. 421, lush and romantic selections by Rheinberger, Rachmaninoff and Dvořák, as well as sublime and other-worldly selections by Britten and Harvey.
Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Piano and Organ
Program
- O Magnum Mysterium – Jakob Handl
- O Magnum Mysterium – Cristóbal de Morales
- In nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi canticum – Marc-Antoine Charpetier
- Puer Natus in Bethlehem – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
- Selections from Six Choruses for Treble Voices – Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Nochka (Night)
- Sosna (The Pine)
- The Sleigh Ride – Traditional, Arr. Nedda Choruzi
- Two Latvian Carols – Andreis Jansons
- Ziemas svētki sabraukuši (Winterfest)
- Balts sniedziņš snieg uz skujiņām (A Gentle snow is on the ground)
- Two Moravian Duets – Antonín Dvořák
- Možnost, from Op. 38 (Hoping in Vain)
- Zelenaj se, zelenaj…, from Op. 32 (Grow Green)
- The Tree of Peace – Gwyneth Walker
- The Tree – Jonathan Harvey
- The Song of the Tree of Life – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- In the Bleak Midwinter – Gustav Holst
- In the Bleak Midwinter – Benjamin Britten
- Velvet Shoes – Mary Howe
- Day Break – Stephen Paulus