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Saturday 1st November 2014Queens’ College Chapel, Cambridge

In aid of the Poppy Appeal

and Queens’ music

28th March 2015

St Vedast-Alias-Foster

The Godwine Choir was set up in early 2014 by recent graduates who wanted to

capture the atmosphere of chamber music at university and bring it to London as

part of professional life.

The choir is now made up of twenty-five young singers, who rehearse together at St.

George the Martyr in Borough. We particularly specialise in a cappella music from the

20th and 21st century, including works by a number of contemporary composers such

as Gabriel Jackson and Roderick Williams. Last year, the group was featured in the

Financial Times and recorded a charity video for War Child.

Our plans this season include performances in Buckfast Abbey and St. Catharine's

College, Cambridge. Tonight, we are very pleased to welcome you to St. Vedast-alias-

Foster for a reflective concert of Passiontide music.

godwinechoir.org

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears

Orlando Gibbons

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet,

which brought from heaven the news and Prince of Peace.

Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat;

to cry for vengeance sin doth never cease.

In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears;

nor let his eye see sin, but through my tears.

Tristis est Anima Mea

Francis Poulenc

Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem:

sustinete hic et vigilate mecum.

Nunc videbitis turbam quæ

circumdabit me.

Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam

immolari pro vobis.

Ecce appropinquat hora, et Filius hominis

tradetur in manus peccatorum.

Miserere

Gregorio Allegri

Miserere mei, Deus,

secundum magnam misericordiam tuam;

et secundum multitudinem miserationum

tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam.

Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea:

et a peccato meo munda me.

Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco,

et peccatum meum contra me est semper.

Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci;

ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis,

et vincas cum judicaris.

Sorrowful is my soul even unto death.

Stay here, and watch with me.

Now you shall see the mob that will

surround me.

You shall take flight, and I shall go to be

sacrificed for you.

The time draws near, and the Son of Man

shall be delivered into the hands of sinners.

Have mercy upon me, O God,

according to thy loving kindness:

according unto the multitude of thy tender

mercies blot out my transgressions.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,

and cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions:

and my sin is ever before me.

Against thee only have I sinned, and done

this evil in thy sight: that thou might be

justified when thou speakest,

and clear when thou judgest.

Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum:

et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.

Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti; incerta et

occulta sapientiae tuae manifestasti mihi.

Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor;

lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

Auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam:

et exsultabunt ossa humiliata.

Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis,

et omnes iniquitates meas dele.

Cor mundum crea in me, Deus, et

spiritum rectum innova in visceribus meis.

Ne projicias me a facie tua,

et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.

Redde mihi laetitiam salutaris tui,

et spiritu principali confirma me.

Docebo iniquos vias tuas,

et impii ad te convertentur.

Libera me de sanguinibus, Deus,

Deus salutis meae, et exsultabit

lingua mea justitiam tuam.

Domine, labia mea aperies,

et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.

Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium, dedissem

utique; holocaustis non delectaberis.

Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus;

cor contritum et humiliatum,

Deus, non despicies.

Benigne fac, Domine,in bona voluntate

tua Sion, ut aedificentur muri Jerusalem.

Tunc acceptabis sacrificium justitiae,

oblationes et holocausta;

tunc imponent super altare tuum vitulos.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity;

and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, thou requirest inward trusth: and shalt

make me to understand wisdom secretly.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the

bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Hide thy face from my sins,

and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence;

and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;

and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;

and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,

thou God of my salvation: and my tongue

shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

O Lord, open thou my lips;

and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I

give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:

a broken and a contrite heart,

O God, thou wilt not despise.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build

thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices

of righteousness, with burnt offering :

then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Salvator Mundi

Herbert Howells

O Saviour of the world,

who by thy cross and thy precious blood

hast redeemed us;

save us and help us,

we humbly beseech thee, O Lord.

Lamentations for Holy Saturday

Orlandus Lassus

ALEPH. Quomodo obscuratum est aurum,

mutatus est color optimus! dispersi sunt

lapides sanctuarii in capite omnium

platearum!

BETH. Filii Sion inclyti, et amicti auro primo:

quomodo reputati sunt in vasa testea,

opus manuum figuli!

GHIMEL. Sed et lamiæ nudaverunt mammam,

lactaverunt catulos suos: filia populi mei

crudelis quasi struthio in deserto.

Ierusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum

Christus Factus est

Anton Bruckner

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens

usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.

Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum

et dedit illi nomen,

quod est super omne nomen.

ALEPH. How the gold has grown dim, how the

pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie

scattered at the head of every street.

BETH. The precious sons of Zion, worth their

weight in fine gold, how they are reckoned as

earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!

GHIMEL. Even the jackals give the breast and

suckle their young, but the daughter of my

people has become cruel, like the ostriches in

the wilderness.

Jerusalem, return to the Lord thy God

Christ became obedient for us unto death,

even death on the cross.

Therefore God exalted Him

and gave Him a name

which is above all names.

O Vos Omnes

Alberto Ginastera

O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam,

attendite, et videte

si est dolor sicut dolor meus,

quoniam vindemiavit me,

ut locutus est Dominus in die irae furoris sui.

Vide Domine quoniam tribulor,

conturbatus est venter meus,

Vide Domine: subversum est cor meum in

memetipsa, quoniam amaritudine plena sum:

Vide Domine: foris interficit gladius,

et domi mors similis est.

Idcirco ego plorans,

et oculus meus deducens aquas:

quia longe factus est, a me consolator,

convertens animam meam:

facti sunt filii mei, perditi,

quoniam invaluit inimicus.

Persequeris in furore,

et conteres eos sub coelis Domine.

O Vos Omnes

Carlo Gesualdo

O vos omnes qui transitis per viam

attendite et videte

si est dolor sicut dolor meus.

Attendite et videte

si est dolor sicut dolor meus.

Oh all you who pass this way,

Behold and see

if there be any sorrow like mine.

For the Lord has afflicted me

as he said in the day of his anger.

See Lord, I am troubled,

my bowels are disrupted.

See Lord, my heart is turned within me,

for I am full of bitterness.

See Lord, abroad the sword destroys

And at home it is death.

For that reason I lament

and my eye pours down water.

For the consoler is taken from me

and my mind whirls around.

My sons are ruined

and the enemy grows strong!

You persist in fury and you grind down

those under the heavens, Lord!

Oh all you who pass this way,

Behold and see if there be any sorrow like

mine.

Behold and see if there be any sorrow like

mine.

INTERVAL

Christus Factus est

Felice Anerio

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens

usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.

Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum

et dedit illi nomen,

quod est super omne nomen.

The Lord is Good

Cecilia McDowall

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him,

to the soul that seeketh him.

It is good that a man should both hope and

quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke

of his youth.

For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

But though he cause grief, yet will he have

compassion according to the multitude of

his mercies.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve

the children of men.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere

ad Dominum Deum tuum.

Salvator Mundi

Thomas Tallis

Salvator mundi, salva nos,

qui per crucem et sanguinem

redemisti nos;

auxiliare nobis

te deprecamur, Deus noster.

Christ became obedient for us unto death,

Even death on the cross.

Therefore God exalted Him

and gave Him a name

which is above all names.

O Saviour of the world,

who by thy cross and thy precious blood

hast redeemed us;

save us and help us,

we humbly beseech thee, O Lord.

The Reproaches

John Sanders

O my people, what have I done to you? How have I offended you? Answer me!

I led you out of Egypt, from slavery to freedom, but you led your Saviour to the cross.


Holy is God! Holy and strong! Holy immortal One, have mercy on us.

For forty years I led you safely through the desert. I fed you with manna from heaven,

and brought you to a land of plenty; but you led your Saviour to the cross.


What more could I have done for you? I planted you as my fairest vine, but you yielded

only bitterness: when I was thirsty you gave me vinegar to drink, and you pierced your

Saviour’s side with a lance.


I opened the sea before you, but you opened my side with a spear.

I led you on your way in a pillar of cloud, but you led me to Pilate’s court.


I bore you up with manna in the desert, but you struck me down and scourged me.

I gave you saving water from the rock, but you gave me gall and vinegar to drink.


I gave you a royal sceptre, but you gave me a crown of thorns.

I raised you to the height of majesty, but you have raised me high on a cross.


Tristis est Anima Mea

Johann Kuhnau

Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem:

sustinete hic et vigilate mecum.

Iam videbitis turbam quæ

circumdabit me.

Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam

immolari pro vobis.

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears

Kenneth Leighton

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet,

which brought from heaven the news and Prince of Peace.

Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat;

to cry for vengeance sin doth never cease.

In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears;

nor let his eye see sin, but through my tears.

Sorrowful is my soul even unto death.

Stay here, and watch with me.

Now you shall see the mob that will

surround me.

You shall take flight, and I shall go to be

sacrificed for you.

Soprano Hannah Bell*

Camilla Biggs*

Sophie Hopkins

Helen Hugh Jones*

Emily Schofield

Saoirse Walsh

Alto Hannah Fiddy

Jo Hale

Sophie Henstridge*

Grace Howson

Helena Jaeggi*

Julia Nikolic

Ellen Reading

Tenor James Corbett

Alex Davan Wetton*

Jamie Hodgson

Edward Hughes

Tom Medley

Travis Winstanley

Bass Adrian Ball

Hugh Collins

Rob Dorey

Richard Pelmore

William Robertson

Stefan Ward-Caddle

David Young**Soloists

Conductors: Edward Hughes and Alex Davan Wetton

OUR THANKS

We would like to thank the members of St. Vedast-Alias-Foster for letting us

perform in their church, and the staff for their kind assistance.

We would also like to thank the members of St. George the Martyr church

for providing our rehearsal space.

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