HAVING performed in Leipzig and Dresden in July and given concerts at the Pre steigne Festival in August, Sine Nomine international touring choir is in Sheffield this Saturday.
The 40-member choir was formed in 1988 by the late James Wild, known locally as the one-time conductor of the Sterndale Singers, and is made up with singers from across the UK, three of them from Sheffield – Jim Cowley, Sarah Catlow and Robert Harris
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Music sacred and secular, old and new is on the choir's programme at St John's Church, Ranmoor, on Saturday, starting with Mendelssohn's resounding eight-part setting of Psalm 43, followed by Stanford's Three Latin Motets, Justorum Animae, Coelos Ascendit Hodie and Beati Quorum Via.
The new then moves in with a BBC commission from young Manchester composer Joe Duddell, The Realside, a meditation on the afterlife drawing on texts from the Bible, poetry and popular songs.
This gives way to a Pater Noster setting by the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, Ave Rosa Sine Spinis by Andrew Goff, Judith Weir's six-part setting of George Herbert's Love Bade Me Welcome and Alan Bullard's setting of Thomas Campion's Never Weather-beaten Sail.
Holst's Nunc Dimittis, rediscovered in 1974 having been written in 1915, and Vaughan Williams' Three Shakspeare Songs are either side of the interval. Sleep by American Eric Whitacre, one of the most frequently heard contemporary choral composers, is followed by Britten's Five Flower Songs, after which come arrangements of two Scottish folksongs by Stuart Hope, Robert Burns' Ae Fond Kiss, Philip Wilby's of Byker Hill and James Erb's of Shenandoah.
The concert ends with a Jim Wild arrangement of Cy Coleman's Rhythm of Life from Sweet Charity, which you will not hear from any other choir as it licensed for performance only by Sine Nomine.
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