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We continue our brand new partnership with St James's Church, Piccadilly with a programme featuring some of the finest choral music of the Portuguese and English Renaissance.
Duarte Lôbo was the most widely known of Portuguese composers, his music appearing not only all over Portugal, but in Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and South America. His eight-part Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) displays many features typical of Renaissance Requiem settings, making it one of the most sonorous and beautiful of the Renaissance era.
William Byrd was one of the greatest composers of the English Renaissance, widely admired in his own time both at home and abroad although often facing considerable persecution for his work. The set of Propers for The Feast of Saints (Gradualia, 1605) is the most joyous and witty set of motets that Byrd produced. Although rightly celebratory in style, Byrd also brings an element of sober reflection and consideration – when the Gradualia was published, the joy of the celebration of All Saints would have been tempered indeed for the Roman Catholics.
PROGRAMME
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Lôbo
Introitus from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Lôbo
Kyrie from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Victoria
O quam gloriosum
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Lôbo
Gradual from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Victoria
Versa est in luctum
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Lôbo
Offertorium from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Lôbo
Sanctus from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Lôbo
Agnus Dei from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Lôbo
Sanctus from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Lôbo
Communio from Missa pro defunctis a8
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Byrd
Gaudeamus omnes (Gradualia for All Saints)
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Harris
Bring us, O Lord God
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Byrd
Beati mundo corde (Gradualia for All Saints)
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Lôbo
Versa est in luctum
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Byrd
Timete Dominum (Gradualia for All Saints)
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Stanford
Beati quorum via
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Byrd
Iustorum animae (Gradualia for All Saints)
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Parry
Lord, let me know mine end from The Songs of Farewell
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor