The second in our ‘Elemental’ series, and featured sacred music inspired by the earth.

Programme (PDF)

• Fear not, O land (Sumsion)
• Turn back, O man (Holst)
• Terra tremuit (Palestrina)
• God so loved the world (Stainer)
• Take him, earth, for cherishing (Howells)
• For the beauty of the earth (Rutter)
• Songs of Farewell – My soul, there is a country (Parry)
• Songs of Farewell – I know my soul hath power (Parry)
• Songs of Farewell – Never weather-beaten sail (Parry)
• Songs of Farewell – There is an old belief (Parry)
• Songs of Farewell – At the round world’s imagined corners (Parry)
• Songs of Farewell – Lord, let me know mine end (Parry)
• Frohlocket ihr Volker auf Erden (Mendelssohn)
• Thou visitest the earth (Greene)
• Let all the world (Vaughan-Williams)