The Externi Consort
The Isle Is Full Of Noises
Sublime settings of Shakespeare's texts
14th Sept 24 | 19:30 | Town Church
The Festival’s resident consort return to Town Church after a sell-out performance last year, this time for a weekend of words and music. This programme explores settings of Shakespeare’s texts by composers spanning the 20th and 21st century, with a contemporary twist on The Bard’s timeless words. This professional choir, directed by Joseph Edwards, is formed of singers that regularly work with The Sixteen, Tenebrae, and The Monteverdi Choir, among many others across the UK and Europe. Since 2022 they have been the resident choir of the Guernsey Choral Festival.​
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Programme
O mistress mine
Come away death
1. The cloud capped towers
2. Full fathom five
3. Over hill, over dale
Be not afeared
1. Like as the waves
2. Weary of toil
It was a lover and his lass
If music be the food of love
Shall I compare thee
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The isle is full of noises
When daisies pied
Touch her soft lips
Take, o take her lips away
1. Come away death
2. Lullaby
3. Double, double, toil and
How sweet the moonlight
Willow song
It was a lover and his lass
Bird of dawning
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Estimated run time: 1hr30 with the interval
Herbert Murrill
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
John Joubert
Pawel Lukaszewski
Thomas Morley
Richard Allain
Nils Lindburg
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Bob Chillcott
Michael Atherton
Bob Chillcott
Hakan Parkman
Jaakko Mantyjarvi
Charles Wood
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
John Rutter
Bob Chillcott
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