The internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble VOCES8 comes to the Isabel this July, bringing their luminous sound and signature precision to a special co-presentation with Ottawa Chamberfest. Celebrated worldwide for their clarity, blend, and artistry, VOCES8 delivers performances that captivate audiences from the first note. Experience one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles in an evening of pure vocal brilliance.
This performance is co-presented by the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts and Ottawa Chamberfest.
Program
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. 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 evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.
The Program
O Clap Your Hands – Orlando Gibbons
All Seems Beautiful to Me – Eric Whitacre
Give Me Your Stars – Lucy Walker
Straighten Up and Fly Right - Nat ‘King’ Cole arr. Jim Clements
For Your Eyes Only & You Only Live Twice – John Barry & Bill Conti arr. Jim Clements
Fever – Otis Blackwell arr. Jim Clements
Ubi Caritas – Ola Gjeilo
Libera Nos I & II – John Sheppard
Nunc Dimittis – Gustav Holst
- Intermission -
Bourrée – JS Bach arr. Ward Swingle
Underneath the Stars – Kate Rusby arr. Jim Clements
Danny Boy – trad. arr. Joshua Pacey
Liebe – Franz Schubert
Free as a Bird – The Beatles arr. Jim Clements
The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel arr. Alexander L’Estrange
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