Music of the Spheres: Partsongs of the British Isles
To celebrate the launch of their latest disc, Tenebrae brings you a Century of the Glories of Partsong ranging from exquisite miniatures about the natural world and human experience to complex masterpieces marrying text and song.
Add to my Calendar 01-10-2016 19:30 01-10-2016 21:30 36 Music of the Spheres: Partsongs of the British Isles To celebrate the launch of their latest disc, Tenebrae brings you a Century of the Glories of Partsong ranging from exquisite miniatures about the natural world and human experience to complex masterpieces marrying text and song. Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson and Milton are the inspiration of renowned composers such as Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Holst and others; the programme being crowned with a performance of Parry’s evocative Songs of Farewell. This music is liberated by its lack of instrumental accompaniment, able to rejoice in the polyphonic ideals of a cappella choral writing and the craftsmanship and imagination of its creators. The Partsong, like its older cousin the Madrigal, has often been viewed as the poor relation to the Motet and the Mass and while it might be said that the devil has some of the best tunes, the secular world can at least hold its own in this sublime musical art. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Gustav Holst – The Evening-Watch, Op.43 no.1
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 5, At the round earth's imagined corners
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – O Wild West Wind, Op.53 no.3
Hubert Murrill – Two Shakespeare Songs
Jonathan Harvey – Song of June
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare songs
Bob Chilcott – Marriage to My Lady Poverty
Judith Bingham – The Drowned Lovers
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird (arr. James Graham)
Bob Chilcott – The Modern Man I Sing
Performers
Tenebrae Choir
Programme Note
To celebrate the launch of their latest disc, Tenebrae brings you a Century of the Glories of Partsong ranging from exquisite miniatures about the natural world and human experience to complex masterpieces marrying text and song.
Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson and Milton are the inspiration of renowned composers such as Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Holst and others; the programme being crowned with a performance of Parry’s evocative Songs of Farewell. This music is liberated by its lack of instrumental accompaniment, able to rejoice in the polyphonic ideals of a cappella choral writing and the craftsmanship and imagination of its creators. The Partsong, like its older cousin the Madrigal, has often been viewed as the poor relation to the Motet and the Mass and while it might be said that the devil has some of the best tunes, the secular world can at least hold its own in this sublime musical art.