Music for a Ducal Do at St Andrew Holborn, London on Thursday 15th March 2018

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Music for a Ducal Do

Add to my Calendar 15-03-2018 19:30 15-03-2018 21:30 36 Music for a Ducal Do In February 1568, almost exactly 450 years ago, duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria married Renata of Lorraine in Munich, Germany. The lavish ceremony lasted several days and featured all the entertainment one could wish for, with the great Orlando di Lasso in charge of music. Mass and Vespers were celebrated daily – Wilhelm was called “the Pious” for a reason – but there were lighter distractions too including tournaments, dance parties, commedia dell’arteperformances and madrigal singing. Orlando Chamber Choir presents a cross-section of the music performed at this exuberant occasion. Accompanied by period instruments, we perform a sumptuous mass setting by Cipriano de Rore, a seductive text from the Song of Songs set by Jacobus de Kerle and a collection of wildly racy madrigals by Orlando di Lasso – Wilhelm and Renata ended up having ten children… We conclude the evening with spectacular musical fireworks in the form of the forty-part motet Ecce beatam lucem by Alessandro Striggio which inspired Tallis’s later work Spem in alium. St Andrew Holborn, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Andrew Holborn
5 St Andrew Street
City of London
London
EC4A 3AB
England

Thursday 15th March 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Orlande de Lassus – Te Deum Laudamus a 6
Jacobus de Kerle – Trahe me post te
Cipriano de Rore – Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Orlande de Lassus – Gratia sola Dei
Orlande de Lassus – Allala, pia calia
Orlande de Lassus – Lucia, celu, hai!
Orlande de Lassus – Matona mia cara
Orlande de Lassus – Chi chi li chi
Alessandro Striggio – Ecce beatam lucem à 40

Performers

Peter Foggitt – Director

Orlando Chamber Choir

Programme Note

In February 1568, almost exactly 450 years ago, duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria married Renata of Lorraine in Munich, Germany. The lavish ceremony lasted several days and featured all the entertainment one could wish for, with the great Orlando di Lasso in charge of music. Mass and Vespers were celebrated daily – Wilhelm was called “the Pious” for a reason – but there were lighter distractions too including tournaments, dance parties, commedia dell’arteperformances and madrigal singing.

Orlando Chamber Choir presents a cross-section of the music performed at this exuberant occasion. Accompanied by period instruments, we perform a sumptuous mass setting by Cipriano de Rore, a seductive text from the Song of Songs set by Jacobus de Kerle and a collection of wildly racy madrigals by Orlando di Lasso – Wilhelm and Renata ended up having ten children… We conclude the evening with spectacular musical fireworks in the form of the forty-part motet Ecce beatam lucem by Alessandro Striggio which inspired Tallis’s later work Spem in alium.

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