March 2019
In Illo Tempore
Music by Monteverdi and the Franco-Flemish School With David Cowen Organ We begin our concerts of 2019 with a lesser-known but rather glorious Parody Mass by Monteverdi, which draws its musical motivic inspiration from a six-part motet by the much earlier Franco-Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert. Whilst the mass ostensibly looks back to the stile antico (old style) of Palestrina, and of course Gombert himself, it is still imbued with a stylish touch that hints at music found in Monteverdi’s Vespers…
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Jesu membra nostri
Dietrich Buxtehude and other Choral Music for Passiontide With Leicester Cathedral Choir (Dir. Chris Ouvry-Johns) Leicestershire Camerata, and David Cowen Organ April 2019 sees the renewal of our fruitful partnership with Leicester Cathedral, their Director of Music Christopher Ouvry-Johns and his talented singers. Following acclaimed performances of Bach’s St John Passion and Rosenmüller’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary alongside the Cathedral Youth Choir and Chamber Choir, we now give a joint concert alongside the main Cathedral Choir. Chorale will…
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Musical notes from across the pond
With Catherine Griffiths Mezzo-Soprano and David Cowen Piano. For our final concert of the season we are delighted to welcome back Mezzo-Soprano Catherine Griffiths, who has appeared as a regular visiting soloist with Chorale over the past few years. We present a programme of music from American and British Twentieth Century Greats, including Aaron Copland’s distinctive take on the Creation story of the book of Genesis, Michael Tippett’s striking Spirituals from A Child of our Time and the hauntingly beautiful…
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