Venue details
Blackburn Cathedral
Cathedral Close Blackburn BB1 5AA
Blackburn Cathedral in Lancashire is one of England's newest Cathedrals with a rich history & heritage of worship, music at the heart of the community.
Overview
Performance Time: 105 minutes
Ticket Prices: Free
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Multibuy Offer
Buy a ticket for the corresponding Choral Pilgrimage Choral Workshop (in the same transaction) and get £5 off.
Celebrating the art of imitation, our 2024 Choral Pilgrimage explores music from the master of parody, Orlande de Lassus, alongside works by Josquin, Casulana and Bob Chilcott.
The richly sensual choral music of Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus provides a stunning centrepiece to our 2024 pilgrimage programme. Music that speaks of love earthly and divine, his motets, masses and madrigals were written over 300 years ago. But they still have the immediacy and intricacy to resonate with us today, especially when heard in the lofty surrounds of stunning chapels, churches and cathedrals.
Daringly designed and stitched in fine detail, they are in fact tailored from scraps of other music, whether Lassus’ own, the music of his revered predecessor Josquin or the monochrome beauty of plainchant. We will revive this imitation game by commissioning a new piece clothed in material borrowed from Lassus, and wrap it around two exquisite madrigals from Maddalena Casulana. An Italian lutenist and singer, she was the first female composer in the history of western music to have a whole book of her works printed. Something old, something new, something borrowed…
The Choral Pilgrimage 2024: Masters of Imitation
Find out morePROGRAMME
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Plainsong
Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Psalm 147)
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Lassus
Osculetur me osculo oris sui
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Casulana
Morir non puo il mio core
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Lassus
‘Credo’ from Missa Osculetur me
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Josquin
Benedicta es caelorum Regina
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Lassus
Cantai, or piango
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Lassus
Lauda Jerusalem Dominum
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Chatelet
Benedicta es caelorum Regina
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Lassus
Salve Regina a6
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Casulana
Vagh’ amorosi augelli
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Lassus
Magnificat Benedicta es caelorum Regina
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Bob Chilcott
Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (parody on Lassus’ Cantai, or piango)
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor