Music list – afternoon session 1 – NORVIS 2025 archive copy – NORVIS

This music list covers information about the music for Afternoon Session 1 (choir, orchestra, recorder ensemble) . Details of Morning Session 1 tuition classes may be found here: MUSIC LIST – TUITION CLASSES. More general information on the whole day is to be found here: THE FOUR DAILY NORVIS SESSIONS.

Version: 10.06.25 – added choir and recorder ensemble online music links.

NORVIS Choir – director Andrew Fowler

The Choir is open to all. No auditions. There are opportunities for solos. Music copies will be provided, so you don’t need to print the following online scores. They are just for your convenience.

Gibbons – Almighty and everlasting God SCORE

Gibbons – O clap your hands together SCORE

Palestrina: Tu es Petrus SCORE

Handel: Nisi Dominus for SSATB soloists, double choir and orchestra SCORE

NORVIS Baroque Orchestra – director Chris Orton

NORVIS Baroque Orchestra welcomes wind players as well as strings. Players are invited to select the parts that they play. Oboes and flutes will need to choose from violin 1 and 2, and some transposition will need to occur when string parts go below your range. The conductor reserves the right, however, to re-distribute players to ensure a suitable balance across all parts. Bassoons can take the cello/basso line. Recorder players can choose to play on voice flutes or alto recorders, with the occasional transposition. We can accommodate a maximum of four recorder players per piece. Recorder parts are suitable for advanced players.

We will select highlights for the performance on Friday.

Charles Avison (after Scarlatti) – Concerto No. 6

Strings and winds.

Full score SCORE

Violin 1 concertino PART

Violin 2 concertino PART

Cello concertino PART

Violin 1 ripieno PART

Violin 2 ripieno PART

Viola ripieno PART

Basso PART

Geminiani – Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 2

Strings and winds.

Violin 1 PART

Violin 2 PART

Viola PART

Cello PART

Bass PART

Vivaldi – Concerto in G Minor, Op. 10, No. 2, La Notte (Night) (RV 439)

Strings only orchestra. (Flute solo)

Violin 1 PART

Violin 2 PART

Viola PART

Continuo PART

NORVIS Recorder Ensemble – director Peter Wendland

Italian and German music for several choirs of recorders, by composers such as Orlando di Lasso, Melchior Franck and Luca Marenzio.
For example:

Lasso: Levavi oculos meos SCORE

Marenzio: Vieni Clori gentil SCORE

Franck: Factum est silentium SCORE

Scores are provided here for reference. Parts will be provided at NORVIS for use in the Recorder Ensemble.