Give Me Your Stars explores the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home. At its heart is Lucy Walker’s eponymous new work, written for VOCES8, which captures the delicate balance between celestial wonder and the deep, personal connections that make us human.
The programme spans centuries of choral music, from the luminous polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Regina Caeli to timeless jazz standards. Along the way, we encounter the reflective sentiments of Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas, folk traditions in Danny Boy and Michael McGlynn’s Dúlamán, and evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.
Regina Caeli á 8 – Tomás Luis de Victoria
All Seems Beautiful to Me – Eric Whitacre
Give Me Your Stars – Lucy Walker
For Your Eyes Only & You Only Live Twice – John Barry & Bill Conti arr. Jim Clements
London By Night – Carroll Coates arr. Gene Puerling
Ubi Caritas – Ola Gjeilo
Stardust – Taylor Scott Davis
Ave Maris Stella – Edvard Grieg
Nunc Dimittis – Gustav Holst
INTERVAL
The Road Home – Stephen Paulus
Liebe – Franz Schubert
Dulaman – Michael McGlynn
Underneath the Stars – Kate Rusby arr. Jim Clements
Danny Boy – trad. arr. Joshua Pacey
Homeward Bound – Simon & Garfunkel arr. Naomi Crellin
Cheek to Cheek – Irving Berlin arr. Jim Clements
April in Paris – Vernon Duke & Yip Harburg arr. Jim Clements
New York, New York – Fred Ebb & John Kander arr. Alexander L’Estrange
