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Monday 18 June 2012, 7.30pm-9.30pm
Christ Church Spitalfields
Tickets: A: £32, B: £26, C: £16, D: £10 (restricted view), E: £5 (unsighted)
In the wake of their successful musical pilgrimages (Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage to Santiag…
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner conductor
Tallis Te lucis ante terminum
Tallis Suscipe quaeso Domine
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis
attrib. Byrd Vide, Domine, quoniam tribulor
Byrd Turn our captivity
Byrd Civitas sancti
White Lamentations (for six voices)
Peter Philips Ecce vicit leo
Byrd Siderum rector
Byrd Vigilate
Morley Nolo mortem peccatoris
Tallis O nata lux
Byrd Nunc dimittis
Tomkins Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom
White Christe qui lux es
This concert will present some of the most spectacularly beautiful examples of Tudor polyphony. This is the heart of the English choral repertoire, and yet it is not often performed by the Monteverdi Choir. With the choir approaching its fiftieth anniversary in 2014 here is an opportunity to return to its roots. The evening takes as its point of departure the music of William Byrd (1540-1623), arguably the greatest of English Renaissance composers
If there were Nobel Prizes for choirs, Monteverdi should be its laureate
Le Monde
Supported by Friends of Monteverdi
