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SEASON 1990/91
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Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, is Guildford’s foremost musical
appreciation group. It was founded primarily to encourage both its
own members and the public at large to be aware of, and to enjoy,
the Orchestra’s season of concerts in the Civic Hall, the Hall
originally built for Guildford’s own orchestra. And it provides
opportunities to enjoy a wide variety of first class musical events at
special Members' Evenings.
MEMBERS EVENTS 1990/91
23rd September:
New Members’ Reception in Civic Hall Restaurant
31st October:
Members’ Evening, Guildhall, High Street, Guildford
Cathy Beynon (harp) Emily Beynon (flute)
8th December:
Members’ Reception following concert
6th January 1991:
New Year ‘Wine and Mince Pie’ Party to follow the New Year
Concert
Tickets: Members £1.50; Non Members £2.00; Childern £1.00
16th February:
A String Quartet (details and venue to be confirmed)
9th March:
Sir Charles Groves
Vernon Handley
Members’ Reception following Concert
17th April:
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Methodist Church Hall, followed by a Piano Recital
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GUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL CONCERTS 1990/91
CIVIC HALL, GUILDFORD
SATURDAY 27 APRIL 1991 at 7.30 p.m.
Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader: HUGH BEAN
LINDA FINNIE, Mezzo Soprano
ARTHUR DAVIES, Tenor
MICHAEL PEARCE, Baritone
PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
VERNON HANDLEY, Conductor
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The Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra & South East
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The
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Orchestra
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our staff, who have developed a superb
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she won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award, and
three years later the Kathleen Ferrier Prize at the ’s-Hertogenbosch International Competition.
Her concert career has taken her to Australasia, the
USA, the Far East and all over Europe. She broadcasts
frequently on Radio 3 as well as being a regular guest at
the Proms, and the Edinburgh Festival. She has worked
with all the major UK orchestras, orchestras in Europe
and America and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has
worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Lorin
Maazel, Daniel Barenboim, Andre Previn, Michael
Tilson Thomas, Jeffrey Tate, Sir John Pritchard, Sir
Colin Davis, Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, Esa-Pekka
Salonen, Erich Leinsdorf, Neemi Jarvi, Kees Bakels,
Christoph von Dohnényi and Charles Mackerras.
Vernon Handley
Vernon Handley is one of Britain’s most popular and distinguished conductors and has worked closely with all the
British Orchestras throughout his career. He has held
several titles including, most recently, Principal
Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra 1985-1989. He is
currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recently been
elected an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic
Society.
Handley is renowned for his many excellent recordings,
particularly of British music and has won several major
awards in this area. In 1989 he won the Gramophone
Award for his recording of Robert Simpson’s 9th
Symphony with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
and in January 1991 he gave the world premiere of
Simpson’s 10th Symphony (which is dedicated to him) in
Liverpool, followed by a London performance in the
Royal Festival Hall. He has also recorded the work with
the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for
Hyperion. Other recordings with the Liverpool orchestra
include the symphonies of Vaughan Williams for EMI of
which No. 5 won the British Record Industry Award and
subsequently sold 25,000 copies.
Handley’s recent engagements have included a tour of
the United Kingdom with the Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra, a visit to North America with the Jeunesse
Musicales World Orchestra and concerts with the San
Diego Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Philharmonic
Orchestra. Future engagements include appearances
with the Northern Sinfonia, Yomiuri Symphony
Orchestra in Japan, and two visits to Australia with the
ABC orchestras.
Vernon Handley was for 21 years Guildford’s Director of
Music and he is now the Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus.
Vernon Handley is a keen amateur ornithologist and
devotes several weeks a year to studying and photograph-
Linda Finnie has sung with all the major British opera
companies notably with English National Opera where
her roles have included Brangaene under Sir Reginald
Goodall, Eboli, Amneris and Ulrica, and at Covent
Garden Waltraute in the Ring cycle conducted by Sir
Colin Davis. Operatic engagements abroad have
included Paris Opera, Geneva Opera, Frankfurt Opera,
Nice Opera Bayreuth, where such was her success at
Bayreuth, she was immediately reinvited for the
following four seasons.
Linda Finnie records exclusively for Chandos Records
and has many recordings to her credit.
Engagements this season include concerts with the Royal
Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Israel Philharmonic,
London
Philharmonic,
Hague
Philharmonic,
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Philharmonia
Orchestras, as well as a recital at Blackheath. With the
Scottish National Orchestra she will begin a cycle of
Mabhler recordings for Chandos conducted by Neeme
Jarvi. In August she will appear as soloist in Das Lied von
der Erde at the Proms, which she sang with Sir Charles
Groves and the Guildford forces in 1989.
ing birds in their natural habitats.
Arthur Davies
Linda Finnie, mezzo soprano
Linda Finnie was born in Scotland and studied at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 1974
Arthur Davies was born in Wrexham, North Wales and
studied at the Royal Northern College of Music.
On leaving college Arthur Davies joined the Welsh
first English Song Award in May 1984. His repertoire is
wide ranging, from the baroque to contemporary music.
Michael has a busy schedule of engagements all over the
UK and abroad; recent highlights have included Bach’s
St. John Passion with King’s College, Cambridge, Arvo
Part’s St. John Passion with the Hilliard Ensemble in
Italy, concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment under Frans Bruggen, appearances at the
Flanders
Festival
in
Bruges
and
Ghent,
with
the
Bournemouth Sinfonietta in Winchester and in France
with Collegium Vocale Ghent, ‘Joy to the World’, a
charity gala in the presence of the Queen and broadcast
on BBC tv, and the role of Becket in Pizzetti’s opera
‘Murder in the Cathedral’ in Bergen, Norway.
Neville Creed
Neville Creed began his conducting career whilst a choral
scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. He then became
National Opera where his roles included Nemorino in
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Nadir in Bizet’s Les
Pecheurs des Perles, Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Boheme
and Don Jose in Bizet’s Carmen.
Garden in Henze’s We Come To The River and has sung
with the English National Opera and with Opera North.
Arthur
Davies
has
Mabhler’s 8th Symphony with the London Philharmonic
under Klaus Tennstedt gained a nomination for a
“Grammy” award.
Mr Davies made his debut with the Royal Opera Covent
Abroad
Director of Choral Music at Tiffin School in Kingstonupon-Thames. The Tiffin Boys’ Choir recording of
appered
in
Chicago,
In 1986 he was awarded a scholarship to study conducting
at the Guildhall School of Music where he won the
Ricordi Conducting Prize. Since completing his studies
has gained the posts of Chorus Master of the
he
Cincinnati, Connecticut, Ghent, Frankfurt, Leipzig,
Lisbon, Moscow, New Orleans, New York (the Met-
Bournemouth
ropolitan Opera House), Pisa, Santiago de Chile and
Seville.
the First International Choral Conducting Competition
held in Italy.
Most recently Arthur Davies made his Italian debut as
Last
Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Boheme to re-open the
refurbished Pisa Opera House, and sang the same role in
Switzerland as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
in the 1990 Exeter Festival.
Symphony Chorus and the Guildford
Philharmonic Choir. In 1988 he won the second prize in
his
summer
he
conducted
in
Denmark
and
Frankfurt.
He has many recordings in the catalogue.
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Future engagements include Gounod’s Faust for Opera
The Guildford Philharmonic Choir was formed in order
North and Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca for Scottish
to
Opera;
Guildford
Philharmonic
Orchestra.
performing
well-known
choral
and
further
appearances
in
the
USA
in
Giordano’s Andrea Chenier and Bizet’s Carmen.
perform
the
major
choral
repertoire
As
works,
with
the
well
as
the
choir
specializes in twentieth century British music and this has
led to recordings of Gerald Finzi’s “Intimations of
Immortality” with the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
and Patrick Hadley’s “The Trees So High” with the
Philharmonia
Orchestra,
both
conducted by Vernon Handley.
recordings
being
The choir is conducted by some of the most eminent
British Musicians including Sir Charles Groves (Principal
Conductor), Vernon Handley and Sir David Willcocks.
As well as giving frequent concerts in Guildford, the
choir occasionally visits other British cities. In 1988 the
Guildford Philharmonic Choir visited Paris and last year
joined forces with the Freiburger Bach Choir in Freiburg
Miinster.
The
Choir
is
trained
by
Neville
Creed,
who
was
appointed Chorus Master in 1987 and he is assisted by
Peter White. Lynette Newman is the Choir’s accom-
panist.
Michael Pearce, baritone
Michael Pearce was a choral scholar at St. John’s College,
The
Choir’s
plans
for
this
Summer
include
the
Cambridge. A former teacher of mathematics, Michael
performance of opera choruses with the Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra in Petworth Park on Sunday 30th
embarked on a solo career in 1977 and was winner of the
June.
THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS
Elgar 1857-1934
There is no doubt that Elgar thought for some time
about Cardinal Newman’s poem before actually
getting to work on the Oratorio as we know it, and
although he had started setting the poem before the
Birmingham Festival Committee invited him to write a
work for them, it was undoubtedly this approach,
made in 1900, which provided the spur for him to finish
the work. The failure of the first performance due to
the newness of the idiom and the particular circumstances of rehearsals is now well known, but it was
not long before the work became an enduring success.
Elgar headed the score “Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To
the glory of God)” and at the end wrote, “This is the
best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept,
loved and hated, like another; my life was as the
vapour and is not; but this I saw and know: this, if
anything of mine, is worth your memory”. It is as well
to remember, in view of some of the more substantial
criticisms of the work, that Elgar said quite clearly that
in Gerontius he had in mind not a Priest or a Saint, but,
“a man like us, a sinner, a repentant one, of course, but
still no end of a worldly man in his life, but now brought
to book. Therefore, I have not filled his part with
church tunes and rubbish, but a good healthy, fullblooded romantic, remembered worldliness, so to
speak. It is, I imagine, much more difficult to tear
oneself away from a well-to-do world than from a
cloister.”
The Dream of Gerontius
I
Gerontius
Tenor
Assistants
Chorus
Bass
The Priest
Gerontius
Jesu, Maria — I am near to death
And Thou art calling me; I know it now,
Not by the token of this faltering breath,
This chill at heart, this dampness on my
brow, —
(Jesu, have mercy! Mary, pray for me!)
"Tis this new feeling, never felt before,
(Be with me, Lord, in my extremity!)
That I am going, that I am no more.
Tis this strange innermost abandonment,
(Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee,)
All Apostles, all Evangelists, pray for him,
All holy Disciples of the Lord, pray for him.
All holy Innocents, pray for him.
All holy Martyrs, all holy Confessors,
All holy Hermits, all Holy Virgins,
All ye Saints of God, pray for him.
Gerontius
Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the
man,;
And through such waning span
Of life and thought as still has to be trod,
Prepare to meet thy God.
And while the storm of that bewilderment
Is for a season spent,
And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall,
Use well the interval.
Assistants
Be merciful, be gracious; spare him, Lord.
Be merciful, be gracious, Lord, deliver him
From Thy frown and Thine ire;
From the sins that are past;
From the perils of dying;
From any complying
With sin, or denying
His God, or relying
On self, at the last;
From the nethermost fire;
From all that is evil;
From power of the devil;
Thy servant deliver,
For once and for ever.
By Thy birth, and by Thy Cross,
Rescue him, from endless loss;
By Thy death and burial,
Save him from a final fall;
By Thy rising from the tomb,
By Thy mounting up above,
By the Spirit’s gracious love
Save him in the day of doom.
Gerontius
Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus,
De profundis oro te,
Miserere, Judex meus,
Parce mihi, Domine.
Firmly I believe and truly
God is Three, and God is One;
And I next acknowledged duly
This emptying out of each constituent
And natural force, by which I come to be.
Pray for me, O my friends; a visitant
Is knocking his dire summons at my door,
The like of whom, to scare me and to daunt,
Has never, never come to me before;
Manhood taken by the Son.
And I trust and hope most fully
In that Manhood crucified;
And each thought and deed unruly
Do to death, as He has died.
So pray for me, my friends, who have not
And I love, supremely, solely,
Him the holy, Him the strong.
Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus,
strength to pray.
Assistants
Kyrie eleison, Christie eleison, Kyrie eleison.
Holy Mary, pray for him.
All holy Angels, pray for him.
Choirs of the righteous, pray for him.
Simply to His grace and wholly
Light and life and strength belong.
De profundis oro te,
Miserere, Judex meus,
Parce mihi, Domine.
And I hold in veneration,
For the love of Him alone,
Holy Church, as His creation,
And her teachings, as His own.
And I take with joy whatever
Now besets me, pain or fear,
And with a strong will I sever
All the ties which bind me here.
Adoration aye be given,
With and through the angelic host,
To the God of earth and heaven,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Sanctus, fortis, Sanctus Deus,
De profundis oro te,
Miserere, Judex meus,
Mortis in discrimine.
I can no more; for now it comes again,
That sense of ruin, which is worse than pain,
That masterful negation and collapse
Of all that makes me man.
..... And, crueller still,
Afierce and restless fright begins to fill
The mansion of my soul. And, worse and
Go from this world! Go, in the Name of God
The Omnipotent Father, Who created thee!
Go, in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord,
Son of the living God, Who bled for thee!
Go, in the Name of the Holy Spirit, Who
Hath been poured out on thee! Go, in the
name
Of Angels and Archangels; in the name
Of Thrones and Dominations; in the name
of Princedoms and of Powers; and in the
name
of Cherubim and Seraphim, go forth!
Go, in the name of Patriachs and Prophets;
And of Apostles and Evangelists,
Of Martyrs and Confessors, in the name
Of Holy Monks and Hermits; in the name
Of Holy Virgins; and all Saints of God,
Both men and women, go! Go, on thy course;
And may thy place today be found in peace,
And may thy dwelling be the Holy Mount
Of Sion: — through the Same, through Christ
our Lord.
worse,
Some bodily form of ill
Floats on the wind, with many a loathsome
curse
Tainting the hallowed air, and laughs, and
INTERVAL
flaps
Its hideous wings,
And makes me wild with horror and dismay.
O Jesu, help! pray for me, Mary, pray!
Some Angel, Jesu! such as came to Thee
In Thine own agony....
Mary, pray for me. Joseph, pray for me.
Mary pray for me.
Assistants
Rescue him, O Lord, in this his evil hour,
As of old so many by Thy gracious power. —
Noe from the waters in a saving home;
(Amen.)
Job from all his multiform and fell distress;
(Amen.)
Moses from the land of bondage and despair;
(Amen.)
David from Golia and the wrath of Saul;
(Amen.)
....—So, to show Thy power,
Rescue this Thy servant in his evil hour.
Gerontius
Novissima hora est; and I fain would sleep,
The pain has wearied me... Into Thy
hands,
O Lord, into Thy hands...
The Priest and Assistants
Profiscicere, anima Christiana, de hoc mundo!
Go forth upon thy journey, Christian soul!
II
Soul of Gerontius
Angel
Tenor
Mezzo-Soprano
Angel of the Agony
Demons, Angelicals, and Souls
Soul of Gerontius
I went to sleep, and now I am refreshed.
A strange refreshment: for I feel in me
An inexpressive lightness, and a sense
Of freedom, as I were at length myself,
And ne’er had been before. How still it is!
I hear no more the busy beat of time,
No, nor my fluttering breath, nor struggling
pulse;
Nor does one moment differ from the next.
This silence pours a solitariness
Into the very essence of my soul;
And the deep rest, so soothing and so sweet,
Hath something too of sternness and of pain.
Another marvel: someone has me fast
Within his ample palm;....
.... A uniform
And gentle pressure tells me I am not
Self-moving, but borne forward on my way.
And hark! I hear a singing: yet in sooth
I cannot of that music rightly say
Whether I hear, or touch, or taste the tones.
Oh, what a heart-subduing melody!
Bass
Chorus
Angel
Angel
My work is done,
It is because
My task is o’er,
Then thou didst fear, that now thou dost not
And so I come,
fear.
Taking it home,
Thou hast forestalled the agony, and so
For the crown is won,
For thee bitterness of death is passed.
Alleluia,
Also, because already in thy soul
The judgement is begun.
For evermore.
My Father gave
In charge to me
Angel
This child of earth
E’en from its birth,
A presage falls upon thee, as a ray
To serve and save,
Straight from the Judge, expressive of thy lot.
Alleluia,
And saved is he.
This child of clay
That calm and joy uprising in thy soul
Is first-fruit to thee of thy recompense,
And heaven begun.
To me was given,
To rear and train
By sorrow and pain
In the narrow way,
Alleluia,
From earth to heaven.
Soul
It is a member of that family
Of wondrous beings, who, ere the worlds
Soul
Now that the hour is come, my fear is fled;
And at this balance of my destiny,
Now close upon me, I can forward look
With a serenest joy.
But hark! upon my sense
Comes a fierce hubbub, which would make me
fear
Could I be frighted.
were made,
Millions of ages back, have stood around
The throne of God.
Angel
We are now arrived
I will address him. Mighty one, my Lord,
My Guardian Spirit, all hail!
Angel
All hail! my child,
My child and brother, hail! what wouldest
thou?
Soul
I would have nothing but to speak with thee
For speaking’s sake. I wish to hold with thee
Conscious communion; though I fain would
know
A maze of things, were it but meet to ask,
And not a curiousness.
Angel
You cannot now
Cherish a wish which ought not to be wished.
Soul
Then I will speak. I ever had believed
That on the moment when the struggling soul
Quitted its mortal case, forthwith it fell
Under the awful Presence of its God.
There to be judged and sent to its own place.
What lets me now from going to my Lord?
Angel
Close on the judgement-court; that sullen howl
Is from the demons who assemble there,
Hungry and wild, to claim their property,
And gather souls for hell. Hist to their cry.
Soul
How sour and how uncouth a dissonance!
Demons
Low-born clods
Of brute earth,
They aspire
To become gods,
By a new birth,
And an extra grace,
And a score of merits,
As if aught
Could stand in place
Of the high thought,
And the glance of fire
Of the great spirits,
The powers blest,
The lords by right,
The primal owners,
Of the proud dwelling
And realm of light,—
Thou art not let; but with extremest speed
Dispossessed,
Art hurrying to the Just and Holy Judge.
Aside thrust,
......
Chucked down,
By the sheer might
Dear Angel, say,
Why have I now no fear of meeting Him?
Of a despot’s will,
Along my earthly life, the thought of death
Who after expelling
And judgement was to me most terrible.
......
Of a tyrant’s frown,
Their hosts, gave,
Triumphant still,
And still unjust,
Each forfeit crown
To psalm-droners,
And canting groaners,
To every slave,
And crawling knave,
Who licked the dust
Under his feet.
stamped
Upon his flesh; and, from the agony
Which thrilled through body and soul in that
embrace,
Angel
It is the restless panting of their being;
Like beasts of prey, who, caged within their
bars,
In a deep hideous purring have their life,
And an incessant pacing to and fro.
The mind bold
In the mid glory: he, when near to die,
Was given communion with the Crucified, —
Such, that the Master’s very wounds were
And pious cheat,
;
Angel
There was a mortal, who is now above
Demons
Learn that the flame of the Everlasting Love
Doth burn ere it transform....
Choir of Angelicals
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise:
Angel
... Hark to those sounds!
They come of tender beings angelical,
And independent,
Least and most childlike of the sons of God.
The purpose free,
Choir of Angelicals
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
So we are told,
Must not think
To have the ascendant,
What’s a saint?
One whose breath
Doth the air taint
Before his death;
A bundle of bones,
Which fools adore,
Ha! ha!
When life is o’er.
Virtue and vice,
A knave’s pretence.
"Tis all the same;
Ha! ha!
Dread of hell-fire,
Of the venomous flame,
A coward’s plea.
Give him his price,
Saint though he be,
Ha! ha!
From shrewd good sense
He’ll salve for hire;
Ha! ha!
And does but aspire
To the heaven above
With sordid aim,
And not from love.
Ha! ha!
Soul
I see not those false spirits; shall I see
My dearest Master, when I reach His throne?
Angel
Yes, — for one moment thou shalt see thy
Lord.
One moment; but thou knowest not, my child,
What thou dost ask: that sight of the Most
Fair
Will gladden thee, but it will pierce thee too.
Soul
Thou speakest darkly, Angel! and an awe
Falls on me, and a fear lest I be rash.
And in the depth be praise:
In all His words most wonderful;
Most sure in all His ways!
To us His elder race He gave
To battle and to win,
Without the chastisement of pain,
Without the soil of sin.
The younger son He willed to be
A marvel in His birth:
Spirit and flesh His parents were;
His home was heaven and earth.
The Eternal blessed His child, and armed,
And sent Him hence afar,
To serve as champion in the field
Of elemental war.
To be His Viceroy in the world
Of matter, and of sense;
Upon the frontier, towards the foe,
A resolute defence.
Angel
We now have passed the gate, and are within
The House of Judgement....
Soul
The sound is like the rushing of the wind —
The summer wind — among the lofty pines.
Choir of Angelicals
Glory to Him, Who evermore
By truth and justice reigns;
Who tears the soul from out its case,
And burns away its stains!
Angel
They sing of thy approaching agony,
Which thou so eagerly didst question of.
Soul
My soul is in my hand: I have no fear, —
But hark! a grand mysterious harmony:
It floods me, like the deep and solemn sound
Of many waters.
......
Angel
And now the threshold, as we traverse it,
Voices on Earth
Be merciful, be gracious; spare him, Lord.
Utters aloud its glad responsive chant.
Be merciful, be gracious; Lord, deliver him.
Choir of Angelicals
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise:
In all His words most wonderful;
Most sure in all His ways!
O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
A second Adam to the fight
And to the rescue came.
O wisest love! that flesh and blood
Which did in Adam fail,
Should strive afresh against the foe,
Should strive and should prevail;
And that a higher gift than grace
Should flesh and blood refine,
God’s Presence and His very Self,
And Essence all divine.
O generous love! that He Who smote
In man for man the foe,
The double agony in man
For man should undergo;
And in the garden secretly,
And on the cross on high,
Should teach His brethren and inspire
To suffer and to die.
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise:
In all His words most wonderful;
Most sure in all His ways!
Angel
Thy judgement now is near, for we are come
Into the veiléd presence of our God.
Soul
I hear the voices that I left on earth.
Angel
It is the voice of friends around thy bed.
Who say the “Subvenite” with the priest.
Hither the echoes come; before the Throne
Stands the great Angel of the Agony,
The same who strengthened Him, what time He knelt
Lone on the garden shade, bedewed with blood.
That Angel best can plead with Him for all
Tormented souls, the dying and the dead.
Angel of the Agony
Jesu! by that shuddering dread which fell on Thee!
Jesu! by that cold dismay which sickened Thee;
Jesu! by that pang of heart which thrilled in Thee;
Jesu! by that mount of sins which crippled Thee;
Jesu! by that sense of guilt which stifled Thee;
Jesu! by that innocence which girdled Thee;
Jesu! by that sanctity which reigned in Thee;
Jesu! by that Godhead which was one with Thee;
Jesu! spare these souls which are so dear to Thee;
Souls, who in prison, calm and patient, wait for Thee;
Hasten, Lord, their hour, and bid them come to Thee,
To that glorious Home, where they shall ever gaze on
Thee.
Soul
I go before my Judge....
Angel
.... Praise to His Name!
O happy, suffering soul! for it is safe,
Consumed, yet quickened, by the glance of God.
Soul
Take me away, and in the lowest deep
There let me be,
And there in hope the lone night-watches keep,
Told out for me.
There, motionless and happy in my pain,
Lone, not forlorn, —
There will I sing my sad perpetual strain,
Until the morn,
There will I sing, and soothe my stricken breast,
Which ne’er can cease
To throb, and pine, and languish, till possessed
Of its Sole Peace.
There will I sing my absent Lord and Love: —
Take me away,
That sooner I may rise and go above,
And see Him in the truth of everlasting day.
Souls in Purgatory
Lord, Thou has been our refuge; in every
generation;
Before the hills were born, and the world was,
from age to age Thou art God.
Bring us not, Lord, very low: for Thou hast said,
Come back again, ye sons of Adam.
Come back, O Lord! how long: and be
entreated for Thy servants.
Angel
Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul,
In my most loving arms I now enfold thee,
And o’er the penal waters, as they roll,
I poise thee, and I lower thee, and hold thee.
And carefully I dip thee in the lake,
And thou, without a sob or a resistance,
Dost through the flood thy rapid passage take,
Sinking deep, deeper, into the dim distance.
Angels, to whom the willing task is given,
Shall tend, and nurse, and lull thee, as
thou liest;
And Masses on the earth, and prayers in heaven,
Shall aid thee at the Throne on the Most
Highest.
Farewell, but not for ever! brother dear,
Be brave and patient on thy bed of sorrow;
Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here,
And I will come and wake thee on the morrow.
Souls
Lord, Thou has been our refuge. Amen.
Choir of Angelicals
Praise to the Holiest. Amen.
Cardinal Newman
Saturday 11 May 1991 at 7.30 pm
at GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL
Saturday 18 May 1991 at 7.30 pm
Schumann
Symphony No.1 in B flat (Spring)
Mabhler
Symphony No.1in D
Conductor
SIR CHARLES GROVES
GALA VIENNESE EVENING
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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Saturday 4 May 1991 10.30 am — 4.30 pm
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EDWARD WARREN, conductor
SANDRA DUGDALE, soprano
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Principal Conductor: SIR CHARLES GROVES
First Violins:
Hugh Bean
Michael de Saulles
Sheila Beckensall
Phillip Auger
Emer Calthorpe
Cellos:
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Kathy Thulborn
Christina Macrae
John Franca
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Christopher Horner
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Ruth Knell
Elizabeth Ovenden
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Adrienne Sturdy
Jennifer Caws
Violas:
Barbara Bolte
Helen Ward
John Meek
Justin Ward
Frederick Campbell
Johin Jezard
Jean Burt
Paul Appleyard
Karen Demmel
Stephanie Williams
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Bass Clarinet:
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Bassoons:
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Timpani:
Contra Bassoon:
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Horns:
Peter Clack
Kevin Abbott
David Clack
Christopher Nall
David Tosh
Graham King
Rodney Newton
Dominic Morgan
Stephen Wick
David Locke
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Christopher Guy
Bass Trombone:
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Louise Barnfield
Susan Barton
Marion Blackburn
Jilly Bradshaw
Mary Broughton
Claire Butcher
Elaine Chapman
Lesley Cowey
Rachel Crookenden
Maura Dearden
Celia Embleton
Josephine Field
Rita Frith
Jenny Hakim
Angela Hand
Ruth Joad
Sue Maddox
Elizabeth McCracken
Alison Munro
Margaret Mylchreest
Susan Norton
Lady Onslow
Margaret Parry
Jean Radley
Susan Ranft
Joan Robinson
Judy Smith
Marie Sprott
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Clare Williams
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Kathleen Aldridge
Penny Baxter
Caroline Bennett
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Mary Brown
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Margaret Dare
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Rachel Edmondson
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Jane Norman
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Jean Shail
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Susan Taylor
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Tessa Wilkinson
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Iris Bennett
Jean Brown
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Mary Clayton
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Roger Barrett
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John Britten
Henry Carew
Arthur Croker
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