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Masters of the Renaissance : Music by Byrd, Weelkes and others
A varied programme of sacred and secular music by William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes. We will also include music by their contemporaries Thomas Tallis and Orlando Gibbons.
Part of the Oxford Pro Musica Singers 2023 Season
Add to my Calendar 20-05-2023 19:30 20-05-2023 21:30 36 Masters of the Renaissance : Music by Byrd, Weelkes and others The resonant surrounds of Exeter College Chapel will be the ideal setting for Oxford Pro Musica Singers’ feast of sacred and secular music from the English Renaissance. Primarily celebrating two of its great masters who died 400 years ago this year, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, the programme will also feature music by contemporaries such as Tallis and Gibbons. William Byrd is doubtless the more familiar of our two main stars, and we include a number of favourites, from the intense and reverent ‘Ave verum corpus’ to the exuberant Easter motet ‘Haec dies’. However we also hope to introduce you to some lesser-known gems, such as his deeply felt lament on the death of Thomas Tallis and the sprightly madrigal ‘Though Amaryllis dance’, closing with that majestic paean of praise, ‘Laudibus in sanctis’. Thomas Weelkes, though, will have his moment: we open the concert with his wonderfully declamatory 'Hosanna to the son of David' and hope to demonstrate his considerable range and skill, from his poignant and little-known setting of ‘When David heard’ to the energetic word-painting of ‘As Vesta was’. Complemented by such jewels as Tallis’s ‘O Nata Lux’ and Gibbons’s ‘Hosanna to the son of David’, the concert will surely be a fitting tribute to two of England’s great composers. Exeter College Chapel, Oxford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Exeter College Chapel
Turl Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3DP
England
Programme
Thomas Weelkes – Hosanna to the Son of David
William Byrd – Sing Joyfully unto God Our Strength
William Byrd – Haec Dies
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Orlando Gibbons – Hosanna to the son of David
Thomas Tallis – Loquebantur variis linguis
John Bull – Bull : Frail man, despise the treasures
Thomas Weelkes – When David Heard that Absalon was slain
William Byrd – Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
Thomas Weelkes – As Vesta Was, from Latmos Hill Descending
William Byrd – Laudibus in Sanctis
Performers
Mark Jordan – Conductor
Oxford Pro Musica Singers
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Programme Note
The resonant surrounds of Exeter College Chapel will be the ideal setting for Oxford Pro Musica Singers’ feast of sacred and secular music from the English Renaissance. Primarily celebrating two of its great masters who died 400 years ago this year, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, the programme will also feature music by contemporaries such as Tallis and Gibbons.
William Byrd is doubtless the more familiar of our two main stars, and we include a number of favourites, from the intense and reverent ‘Ave verum corpus’ to the exuberant Easter motet ‘Haec dies’. However we also hope to introduce you to some lesser-known gems, such as his deeply felt lament on the death of Thomas Tallis and the sprightly madrigal ‘Though Amaryllis dance’, closing with that majestic paean of praise, ‘Laudibus in sanctis’.
Thomas Weelkes, though, will have his moment: we open the concert with his wonderfully declamatory 'Hosanna to the son of David' and hope to demonstrate his considerable range and skill, from his poignant and little-known setting of ‘When David heard’ to the energetic word-painting of ‘As Vesta was’.
Complemented by such jewels as Tallis’s ‘O Nata Lux’ and Gibbons’s ‘Hosanna to the son of David’, the concert will surely be a fitting tribute to two of England’s great composers.
