Voces8

GIVE ME YOUR STARS

Orlando Gibbons | O Clap Your Hands

Eric Whitacre | All Seems Beautiful to Me

Lucy Walker | Give Me Your Stars

Nat ‘King’ Cole | Straighten Up and Fly Right (arr. Jim Clements)

John Barry & Bill Conti | For Your Eyes Only / You Only Live Twice (arr. Jim Clements)

Otis Blackwell | Fever (arr. Jim Clements)

John Sheppard  | Libera Nos I & II

Gustav Holst | Nunc Dimittis

J. S. Bach | Bourrée  (arr. Ward Swingle)

Kate Rusby | Underneath the Stars (arr. Jim Clements)

Traditional | Danny Boy  (arr. Joshua Pacey)

Franz Schubert | Liebe

The Beatles | Free as a Bird (arr. Jim Clements)

Simon & Garfunkel | The Sound of Silence (arr. Alexander L’Estrange)

Vernon Duke & Yip Harburg | April in Paris (arr. Jim Clements)

Irving Berlin | Cheek to Cheek  (arr. Jim Clements)

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.