During July, the ACC presented nine concerts in Europe. After each performance, the audience applauded loud and long, sometimes rising to their feet to encourage the choir to return for a second or a third encore.

The ACC sang in three international festivals – the Darmstadt International Summer Organ festival (Germany), Ceresio Summer festival (Switzerland) and the Flanders International Summer Organ Festival (Belguim) – and in the cathedrals of Venice, Berlin and Bonn. The fact that most of these were return invitations is testament to the choir’s elevated reputation.

Appearing in Bonn for the seventh time, the ACC’s Basilica concert was reviewed by Fritz Herzog for the General Anzeiger (daily newspaper): “The pandemic forced a break, but now the traditional biennial tours of this top choir have resumed … with a program that wonderfully reflected the breadth of this excellent ensemble”.

The program below includes all the encores from the international tour, plus a few more …

PROGRAM

AFRO AMERICAN ENCORES
Traditional, arranged Moses Hogan (1957–2003)
My soul’s been anchored in the Lord
There is a balm in Gilead 
Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel        

ROMANTIC ENCORES
Anton Bruckner (1824-96) Locus iste
Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901) Abendlied

BAROQUE ENCORES
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) arranged Elizabeth Anderson
Menuets from the ‘Music for the Royal Fireworks’
Air from the ‘Water Music’

ENGLISH ROMANTIC ENCORES
Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Nunc Dimitis
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Beati quorum via

MORE MOSES HOGAN
I want Jesus to walk with me
Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho

CLASSICAL ENCORES
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) Ave Verum
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Ode to Joy

AUSSIE ENCORES
Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003) The Quacks
Stephen Leek (born 1959) Kondalilla

DOUGLAS’ FAVOURITES
Ralph Vaughan Williams  Valiant for Truth
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Fugue in G minor, arranged Ward Swingle