Alamire - early choral music live from Cadogan Hall 24.4.13

[Nick Armstrong]

For Every Syllable a Note:

Alamire chart the music of the Tudor Dynasty from the pre-Reformation flowerings of the Eton Choirbook through Archbishop Parker's Psalter and the 'Father of English Music,'Thomas Tallis,' to the great Elizabethan motets and votive offerings of William Byrd.

7.30
Part I

Lambe: Nesciens mater
Taverner: O Christe Jesu, pastor bone
Sheppard: Filiae Jerusalem
Taverner: Quemadmodum
Sheppard: Verbum caro
Taverner and Tye: O spendor gloriae



approx 8.25pm
Part II

Tallis: It ye love me
Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Byrd: Peccantem me quotidie
Tallis: Honor virtus et potestas
Tallis: In ieiunio et fletu
Tallis: Dum transisset sabbatum
Byrd: Emendemus in melius
Byrd: Tribue Domine.

What a gorgeous concert... The first half was the perfect balm on the way home after a hectic first day back at work.

Wonderful music and performance

[Old Grumpy]

[b]for every syllable a note:

Alamire chart the music of the tudor dynasty from the pre-reformation flowerings of the eton choirbook through archbishop parker's psalter and the 'father of english music,'thomas tallis,' to the great elizabethan motets and votive offerings of william byrd.


Wonderful music and performance

snap!!

[Nick Armstrong]

snap!!

Double snap! (see your EMS post!)