For past seasons, please see below.

2008-2009 Season
  

High Notes & High Tea XXV

“The Forgotten Half Century”

October 12, 2008 – Trinity Lutheran Church in Shelton

October 19, 2008 – Christ Episcopal Church in Middle Haddam

Franz Tunder: Prelude and Fugue for Organ

John Blow: Mourn for they Servant (venus & Adonis)

Giuseppe Torelli: Sonata in D minor, Op. 4, Nr.2

Antonio Caldara: Alma del core

Jean-Baptist Lully: Le Ciel protege les heros

Johann Jacob Froberger: Toccata in A minor, FbWV 101

Francesco Provenzale: Lasciatemi morir

Torelli: Sonata in D major, Op. 4, Nr. 11

Pelham Humphrey: O Lord, my God

Johann Rosenmüller: Aleph. Ego vir (Lamentationes Jeremiae)

Froberger: Partita in A minor, FbWV 601

Tunder: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Marc Antoine Charpentier: Madeleine et Jesus

Marc’ Antonio Cesti: Di belleza e di valore

Handel: Messiah, Part One

November 30, 2008 – Bethlehem Lutheran Church in East Hampton

Music for Christmas XXXIV

December 7, 2008 – Zion Lutheran Church in Portland

December 14, 2008 – Saint Peter Church in Torrington

December 21, 2008 – Saint Peter Church in Higganum

December 28, 2008 – Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville

Poem: from “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

Chant: Alleluia: Crastina die delebitur

In Dulci jubilo

Richard Wm. Donohue: Christmas is a Time (premier)

Tomas Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria

Josquin Des Prez: Mittit ad Virginem

Johann Kuhnau: For Us a Child is Born

Kuhnau: Sound the Trumpets

Sergei Sorokin: White Hall Christmas Caroll (premier)

While Shepherds Watched

Karl Enslin: Kling Glöcken

Donohue: Ecce nomen Domini Emmanuel

Richard S. Willis: It Came upon the Midenight Clear

Franz Gruber: Stille Nacht

High notes & High Tea XXVI

“From Tchaikovsky to Rakhmaninov”

February 15, 2009 – Christ Episcopal Church in Ansonia

February 22, 2009 – Grace Episcopal Church in Old Saybrook

Piotr Tchaokovsky:             Romance in F Minor, Op. 5

                                                The Golden Cloud

                                                A Legend

                                                Cherubim Song

                                                Crown Him King of Glory

Sergey Rackhmaninov: Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in g minor, Op. 10

Music for Lent & Easter XXXV

March 15, 2009 – Saint Francis of Assisi Church in Torrington

March 22, 2009 – Church of the Resurrection in Wallingford

Sidney Lanier: A Ballad of the Trees and the Master

Chant: Ecce lignum Crucis

Heinrich Schütz: Aleph und Beth: Wohl denen, die ohne Wandel leben

Gabriel Fauré: Requem; Introit & Kyrie, Pie Jesu, Sanctus

Frank Martin: Agnus Dei

George Frederick Handel: Recitative: He was cut off (Messiah)

                                                Air: but thou didst not leave his soul

                                                Chorus: lift up your heads

Gregorio Allegri: Christus resurgens ex mortuis

Herbert Howells: I will lift up mine eyes

Chant: Alleluia, Laudate Dominum

Gerald Finzi: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice

C. Hubert H. Parry: I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me

Pietro Mascagni: Regina Coeli, laetare

Handel: Chorus: Hallelujah

Spring Concert

May 17, 2009 – The First Congregational Church of Madison

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: The Crown of Roses

Anton Stepanovich Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky

Ringing of Hand Bells: Plain Bob Minor

Chant: Ave Maria

Francis Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge Noire

Chant: Lux aeterna

Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aetrena