Polyphonic Picnic: Music about food and satiation at St Andrew's Church, London on Thursday 15th June 2017

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Polyphonic Picnic

Music about food and satiation

Part of the Orlando Chamber Choir 2016-17 Season

Add to my Calendar 15-06-2017 19:30 15-06-2017 21:30 36 Polyphonic Picnic This food-themed programme draws together a number of distinct themes: firstly, sacred music whose purpose is the commemoration of the Eucharist, the great spiritual feast of the Lamb of God; secondly, secular music that celebrates the nourishing of the temporal body with various kinds of delicious things; thirdly, music by composers whose names are, in some sense, edible. Occasionally, these overlap, as in Handl's setting of Bernard of Clairvaux’ poem Jesu, dulcis memoria; occasionally, the spiritual and the temporal can be described using one set of words with two interpretations, as Palestrina points out in his preface to his Song of Songs settings; and on one occasion, a Biblical theme is updated, as in Rheinberger’s fantasy on the story of Jonah. The alcoholic tendencies of medieval monks are parodied in excerpts from the Missa Potatorum, which draws on the Gospels and the ancient monastic plainsong tradition to depict the debauchery indulged in by certain members of the religious orders.   In each half, a piano miniature by Rossini is named after one of the composer’s favourite foods, and at the conclusion of the concert, the Toast pour le nouvel an concerns itself with both the eternal joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the quickly-expiring pleasures of sparkling wine.   There will be vinum bonum in the interval too, and a variety of foods to complete this all-sensory polyphonic picnic. St Andrew's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Andrew's Church
5 Saint Andrew Street
Holborn
London
EC4A 3AB
England

Thursday 15th June 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Tomas Luis de Victoria – Lauda Sion salvatorem
Gioachino Rossini – Toast pour le nouvel an
Loyset Compère – Nous sommes de l'ordre de Saint Babouyn
Orlando di Lasso – Vinum bonum et suave
Anonymous – Bonum vinum
Anonymous – Lugeamus omnes
Gioachino Rossini – Les noisettes (piano)
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – Der Jonas kehrt im Walfisch ein
Orlando di Lasso – Lucescit iam o socii
Jean Mouton – Tota pulchra es
Francesco Gasparini – Panis angelicus
Gregorio Zucchini – Sanctis Apostolis inclita gaudia
Thomas Tallis – O sacrum convivium
Anonymous – Gaudeamus omnes
Peter Foggitt – Ad cenam agni providi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Introduxit me rex
Guillaume Dufay – Ad cenam agni providi
William Byrd – O sacrum convivium
Gioachino Rossini – Les Cornichons (piano)
Orlando di Lasso – A ce matin
Thomas Weelkes – Whilst youthful sports
John Dunstaple – Descendi in hortum meum
Jacobus Gallus – Jesu, dulcis memoria
Osbert Parsley – This is the day
Francisco Guerrero – O sacrum convivium

Performers

Peter Foggitt – Director

Orlando Chamber Choir

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Programme Note

This food-themed programme draws together a number of distinct themes: firstly, sacred music whose purpose is the commemoration of the Eucharist, the great spiritual feast of the Lamb of God; secondly, secular music that celebrates the nourishing of the temporal body with various kinds of delicious things; thirdly, music by composers whose names are, in some sense, edible. Occasionally, these overlap, as in Handl's setting of Bernard of Clairvaux’ poem Jesu, dulcis memoria; occasionally, the spiritual and the temporal can be described using one set of words with two interpretations, as Palestrina points out in his preface to his Song of Songs settings; and on one occasion, a Biblical theme is updated, as in Rheinberger’s fantasy on the story of Jonah. The alcoholic tendencies of medieval monks are parodied in excerpts from the Missa Potatorum, which draws on the Gospels and the ancient monastic plainsong tradition to depict the debauchery indulged in by certain members of the religious orders.

In each half, a piano miniature by Rossini is named after one of the composer’s favourite foods, and at the conclusion of the concert, the Toast pour le nouvel an concerns itself with both the eternal joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the quickly-expiring pleasures of sparkling wine.

There will be vinum bonum in the interval too, and a variety of foods to complete this all-sensory polyphonic picnic.

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