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Details
St Bartholomews Church
Ann Street
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 4GP
England
Programme
William Byrd – Fantasia in 3 parts
William Byrd – Fantasia No. 3 in C major for 3-part Consort
William Byrd – Fantasy à 5: Browning
William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices: I. Kyrie & II. Gloria
William Byrd – Fantasy à 6, T390
William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices: III Credo
William Byrd – Fantasy à 6, T390
William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices: IV. Sanctus, V. Benedictus & VI. Agnus Dei
William Byrd – Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye Sacred Muses)
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices: Agnus Dei
William Byrd – Pavan a 6
Performers
The Gesualdo Six
Fretwork
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
England’s finest composer was a covert Catholic facing brutal prosecution. Hear Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices as he intended: sung for private worship in strictest secrecy. The Gesualdo Six and Fretwork collaborate for the first time in a theatrical seance by candlelight that invites you inside the music like never before. A limited audience is free to move around a costumed and staged performance, breaking bread and celebrating Byrd’s ravishing masterpiece. This new work invites secular and religious audiences alike to commune with some of the most ravishing music ever written, recreating the music (and the spiritual intensity) of forbidden Catholic worship at the height of England’s golden age.
