A celebration of some of the finest sacred choral music composed over 1,000 years from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Canada. The programme ranges from plainsong chant written in the tenth century to a contemporary version of Walton's "Set Me As A Seal" entitled "Upon Your Heart" composed in the 1990s by Toronto-based composer Eleanor Daley. In between the music traverses the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods with compositions such as Sicut Cervus and Exultate Deo by Palestrina, Rejoice in the Lord always by Purcell, Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart, Os Justi and Locus Iste by Bruckner and Cantique de Jean Racine by Fauré. The Choir will be led for the first time by Acting Director of Music Jon Openshaw, a professional operatic baritone and choir director in the Horsham area.
