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St Mark's Unitarian Church
7 Castle Terrace
Edinburgh
EH1 2DP
Scotland
Programme
John Sheppard – In Manus Tuas
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
William Byrd – Aspice Domine
William Cornysh – Ave Maria Mater Dei
John Taverner – Quemadmodum
John Dunstaple – Quam pulchra es
Pygott Richard – Quid petis, O fili?
William Mundy – A New Commandment
Robert Ramsey – How are the mighty fallen
Thomas Tallis – Selection of ‘Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter’
Thomas Tallis – If ye love me
Thomas Tomkins – When David heard
Robert Parsons – Deliver Me from Mine Enemies
Performers
The Gesualdo Six
Programme Note
Join The Gesualdo Six as they explore renaissance masterpieces from the Golden Age of polyphony in England.
During the renaissance, musical composition flourished, but it was a time of great change, fuelled by religious division. In this programme, The Gesualdo Six trace music written by some of the English Renaissance masters over a period of two-hundred years, encompassing florid medieval-sounding pieces by Pygott and Dunstaple, intricately woven polyphonic works by Tallis and Byrd, and the beautiful simplicity of Mundy and Tomkins.
