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St Andrew Holborn
5 St Andrew Street
Holborn
London
EC4A 3AF
England
Programme
Peter Philips – Gaudens gaudebo in Domino
Nicolas Gombert – Magnificat tertii et octavi toni
Carlo Gesualdo – Occhi del mio cor vita
Michael Tippett – Four Songs from the British Isles
Thomas Weelkes – Noel, adieu, thou Court's delight
Francisco Guerrero – Duo Seraphim
Carlo Gesualdo – Illumina faciem tuam
Olivier Messiaen – O sacrum convivium
Thomas Weelkes – Hark, all ye lovely saints above
Dominique Phinot – Pater, peccavi
Nicolas Gombert – Lugebat David Absalon
Carlo Gesualdo – Dolcissima mia vita
Johann Sebastian Bach – Komm, Jesu, komm (motet), BWV 229
Performers
Will Dawes – Director
Orlando Chamber Choir
Programme Note
Orlando Chamber Choir presents a dangerously exciting concert with music by Renaissance renegades – brilliant composers like Weelkes, Guerrero, Gombert and Gesualdo who, through fate, fault or fortune, all ended up on the wrong side of the law. They transcribed their experiences of drunkenness, debt, imprisonment, robbery, indecency and murder into musical compositions, using expressive counterpoint and unconventional rhythms, dramatic dissonance and tormented chromatic progressions, sometimes even set to the composer’s own moving poetry.
For your and our safety the concert takes place at a stone’s throw from the Old Bailey.
