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St Bartholomew-the-Great
Cloth Fair
City of London
London
EC1A 7JQ
England
Programme
Guillaume de Machaut – La Messe de Nostre Dame: Gloria
Kerry Andrew – O lux Beata Trinitas
Judith Weir – Ave Regina Caelorum
Caterina Assandra – Salve Regina
Richard Dering – Factum est silentium
Thomas Tallis – Miserere nostri
William Byrd – O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth, our Queen
Francis Poulenc – Vinea mea electa, FP 97 no.2
Jacobus Clemens non Papa – Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli: Agnus Dei
Robert Nathaniel Dett – Listen to the lambs
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices: Sanctus and Benedictus
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus (trans. Elwood Williams)
Josquin des Prez – Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae - 3. Credo
Rosephanye Powell – Non Nobis, Domine
Performers
Jamie Powe – Conductor
The Fourth Choir
Programme Note
In 1605, Charles de Ligny, a French aristocrat visiting London, was arrested and imprisoned as a spy. The evidence against him was a book of music he was carrying with him. How could music be so dangerous that mere possession of it could get you thrown into prison?
The Fourth Choir's next concert will follow the fascinating history of polyphony from its earliest beginnings, through the turbulent and dangerous days of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, to the present day. How did composers comply with the diktats of kings, queens and popes - even when they felt that to do so would imperil their immortal souls - and still manage to produce some of the most beautiful choral music ever written?
