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St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Church
Bishopsgate
City of London
London
EC2M 3TL
England
Programme
Jacobus Clemens non Papa – Ego flos campi
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Vidi speciosam
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Dilectus meus descendit in hortum meum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Quae es ista quae progreditur
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Duo ubera tua
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Quam pulchra es
Cipriano de Rore – Descendi in hortum meum
Orlando di Lasso – Anima mea liquefacta es
Orlando di Lasso – Veni, dilecte mi
Orlando di Lasso – Veni in hortum meum
Raphaella Aleotti – Surge, propera amica mea
Leonhard Lechner – Ich bin ein Blumen zu Saron
Melchior Franck – Du bist aller Dinge schön, meine Freundin
Heinrich Schütz – Ego dormio - Vulnerasti cor meum
Howard Skempton – Rise up, my love
Performers
Lucy Goddard – Director
Orlando Chamber Choir
Programme Note
It's Palestrina's 500th birthday and what better way to celebrate than by performing a selection of his rich Canticum Canticorum motets? Palestrina was not the only composer to take inspiration from the Old Testament's Song of Songs texts, with their surprising focus on erotic love. These luscious texts provided many Renaissance composers in continental Europe with an amazing source of inspiration for some of their most expressive works. Our programme starts in Renaissance Italy before moving to Germany, whose early baroque composers revered the composers of the Italian Renaissance. Howard Skempton's Rise up, my love will also give us a refreshing contemporary take on our theme.
