Tony Price 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2014 I'm considering a concert in June next year on the theme of Parables. The core of this would be WS Lloyd Webber's The Good Samaritan and Shutz's The Pharisee and the Publican (in English). I need to pad it out a bit beyond these two works, but am struggling to find music that fits the theme.The concert would be accompanied by the organ, and, apart from anything else, hymn suggestions would be good.Able but amateur SATB choir. Has any one any thoughts they might be prepared to offer. There seems to be nothing helpful I could find elsewhere on-line.Many thanks, in hopeful anticipation.Tony Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Organconvert Report post Posted September 3, 2014 How about the hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness? (Based on faithfulness parables found in Matthew's gospel) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjf1967 0 Report post Posted September 4, 2014 There's a good Schutz piece here Various settings of Simile est regnum coelorum to be found on cpdl. Audivi media nocte, Tallis. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjf1967 0 Report post Posted September 4, 2014 I see you had the Schutz already, sorry... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Price 0 Report post Posted September 6, 2014 Many thanks, to you both, for the replies. Much appreciated, and I'll look into them. Does seem to be a general dearth of such musical material on the subject.Tony Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SomeChap 0 Report post Posted September 10, 2014 Britten Cantata Misericordiam is also based on the Good Samaritan. Might be too hard though and too big for what you had in mind (25 mins, big Tenor solo, strings)?The only other thing that comes to mind is Egressus Jesus by Giaches de Wert, which isn't a parable but is a gospel passage containing the verbal teaching of Jesus to the Canaanite woman whose daughter was possessed by a demon. (Matthew 15:21). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Price 0 Report post Posted September 23, 2014 Many thanks for the additional suggestions, and apologies for the tardy acknowledgement - just returned from time in Ludlow, and, yes, I did buy that DVD and am looking forward to watching it and listening to it!The Britten is a little outside of the scope of what I had in mind, I fear. The de Wert is interesting: something else I'd never heard of!!Tony Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
