Give Me Your Stars

VOCES8 make a welcome return to the Festival with a programme exploring the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home. At its heart is Lucy Walker’s eponymous new work, written for VOCES8, which captures the delicate balance between celestial wonder and the deep, personal connections that make us human.

The programme spans centuries of choral music, from the luminous polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Regina Caeli to timeless jazz standards. Along the way, we encounter the reflective sentiments of Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas, folk traditions in Danny Boy and Michael McGlynn’s Dúlamán, and evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.

Performers
Savannah Porter soprano
Eleonora Poignant soprano
Barnaby Smith countertenor
Blake Morgan tenor
Euan Williamson tenor
Chris Moore baritone
Dominic Carver bass

Programme to include:
Lucy Walker new work
Tomás Luis de Victoria Regina Caeli
Eric Whitacre All Seems Beautiful to Me
Ola Gjeilo Ubi Caritas
Trad. Danny Boy
Michael McGlynn Dúlamán
John Kander & Fred Ebb New York, New York
Vernon Duke & Yip Harburg April in Paris

Sponsored by
Mr and Mrs Patrick Hungerford
Mr and Mrs Toby Ward