The Harps Eternal

Enjoy the Vancouver Island Chamber Choir director Grant Harville's evocative programme built around Alice Parker's Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal, soaring above the clouds into the celestial realm, where music touches our hearts and takes place amongst the angels and the stars. Here we witness the harp as both gazing heavenward (the instrument of the angels) as well as a storytelling tool (harp/lyre as the instrument that accompanies a storyteller).

1. Musikalische Exequien: II. Herr, wenn ich nur dich have, SWV. 280 by Heinrich Schütz 2. Bonjour mon coeur, La nuit froide et sombre, and Matona, mia cara by Orlando di Lasso 3. The Evening Star by S. Coleridge-Taylor 4. In Silent Night by J. Brahms 5. Chansons Françaises by F. Poulenc 6. When the Earth Stands Still by Don MacDonald 7. I'm A Train by A. Hammond & M. Hazelwood 8. Hatfield (Lord, in the Morning) anon. SSA 9. Harvest Hymn (The fields are all white) by J. Ingalls TBB 10. Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal arr. by Alice Parker 11. Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveller arr. by Nathaniel Dett