Details
Queen's College Chapel
Queen's College
High Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 4AW
England
Programme
Peter Philips – Hodie beata virgo
Peter Philips – Surgens Jesus
Peter Philips – Ascendit Deus
Peter Philips – Factum est silentium
Peter Philips – Tristitia vestra
Peter Philips – Salve Regina
Richard Dering – Duo Seraphim
Richard Dering – Panis angelicus
Alessandro Grandi – O bone Jesu
Performers
Owen Rees – Conductor
Contrapunctus
Programme Note
Two of England’s greatest 17th-century composers of sacred music – Richard Dering and Peter Philips – were Catholics who emigrated from Protestant England and made their careers on the Continent, working for English Catholic convents and for the court of the Spanish rulers of the Netherlands. Contrapunctus explores Philips’s beautifully wrought and expressive motets from his Cantiones sacræ of 1612, alongside duets in the modern Italian manner by Dering, published after his return to England in the service of Queen Henrietta Maria.
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